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Unofficial Windows Phone Marketplace request site launches!
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“While we have a nice selection of apps on the Marketplace, we can certainly always use some more. And not just random apps but specific ones for certain services. The question is how do we let devs know?
One way is to simply vote. And now you can. Using the third-party service UserVoice, anyone can create a site that allows people to solicit feedback from customers and that’s exactly what Scott Dorman, a Microsoft MVP, has done with Windows Phone Marketplace Requests. Folks can go there, type in an app and others can vote, it’s really that simple.
Of course what does that mean? Well, it certainly is a way to gage interest in apps but since this is not a Microsoft site and has no affiliation with the Windows Phone Marketplace, there’s nothing really binding here. Furthermore, while many of us would like a Hulu app for Windows Phone, third-party devs can’t access proprietary services, so requesting one here may not be the best way to get their attention.
Certainly feedback is good but in the end, there’s only one thing that will bring more apps and services to Windows Phone: marketshare. When Microsoft’s OS starts picking up steam, devs and companies will notice and respond accordingly. Until then, feel free to vote away.
Source: WP Marketplace Request; Original image via Shutterstock”
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Director of User Experience at Microsoft speaks on Android, Windows Phone
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“Gizmodo has posted a nice interview with Sam Moreau, Director of User Experience for Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer (LinkedIn) at Microsoft. He’s basically the guy tasked with the Windows 8 UI redesign which obviously has taken its cues from Windows Phone (which took its cues from Zune and goes back to Windows Media Center). The interview is quite fascinating as it entails discussions on challenges the team faced, decisions made and what they are expecting.
One interesting area that came up was Windows Phone, where Gizmodo asked about Microsoft’s new found “strong sense of vision”. Moreau responds and summarizes Android nicely:
“Yeah, because that was the thing that we get blamed for a lot. Or, I would say the thing that annoys me about Android is I don’t think it has a point of view. I think it’s trying to be this weird sci-fi version of an Apple design language, poorly executed. Some of it is starting to get there, you know, they got Matias (Duarte) there, and some things are starting to get a little better. They’re starting to get that—some sense of soul, but I do think that a lot of their soul is derived from some other place.”
That sense of soul is something Apple clearly has and now something Microsoft has too. Android and RIM? Not so much. Certainly design-philosophy or as Moreau calls it, redesigning a religion, is no small task and in a lot of ways it’s remarkable that Microsoft is leading in this core area. Part of that is due to Microsoft’s “low-self esteem” in terms of design and with the combo of strong leadership and strong competition i.e. Apple, Microsoft has turned themselves around.
The Metro design language is just starting to hit the mainstream and Windows Phone, for all intents and purposes, was the first. It should be very exciting to see in late 2012 how the masses react to the “sudden” alignment of Microsoft’s three screens of phone, TV and gaming.
Source: Gizmodo; Image credit: Annie Marie Musselman/Fast Company”
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Nokia Lists 30 Top Apps For Their Nokia Lumia Phones!
“The official Nokia blog is truly a great place to stop by if you just purchased a Nokia Lumia handset, or are planning to. This time around Trevor, over at the Nokia Conversations page, has posted a list of 30 applications that he can’t live without on the Nokia Windows Phone. Of course, some applications, like Nokia Maps, are exclusive to Nokia Lumia devices, while others like Facebook are most likely the first apps users download anyway. Most applications in the list are also free, or have free trials, but Trevor emphasizes these are applications he truly would have to be without on his Lumia.
Of special note I want to point out a few, but continue reading and you’ll find the entire list of 30 applications recommended by Nokia for their Lumia lineup. I personally recommend Epicurious, IM+, WhatsApp, ESPN Scorecenter, Xbox Companion, Angry Birds, Flight Control, and Plants vs. Zombies as some must have applications.
You can upload your Facebook friends straight into the People Hub, but it helps to have the free app too so that you can runyour account in full on the go.
Another social network that you can link to your Nokia Windows Phone People Hub, but again, this gives me full control of my @RepublicT account.
eBay
Everyone uses eBay at some time and whether you are buying or selling, you need to have access 24/7. Now excuse me while I keep an eye on that Brompton bike I’m bidding for.
Expensify
I’m a bit of an Expensify newbie, but since my boss introduced me to it at CES, it has become invaluable. Doesn’t mean I’ll get all of my expenses paid, but it’s helping to keep track of my spending as never before.
Evernote
My colleague Jason introduced me to Evernote, and it has become another recent must-have.
IM+
IMplus is invaluable for keeping in touch on your Windows Phone via Skype’s instant messaging. It keeps you in the loop when you are on the go. And, for those of you who use Skype as a virtual office, the boss will think you are always working.
Another instant messaging app that you can use across platforms. Especially great for keeping in touch with anyone on Blackberry Messaging Service (BBM). Just input your number, accept the terms and conditions and the Windows Phone app will give you a list of contacts already using it.
Kayak
Anyone who travels will find Kayak vital for checking flights and sourcing routes. Don’t leave home without it.
Pulse
Any news junkie will appreciate Pulse with its fully customisable news interface. You can browse by source or subject and get your fix of everything that’s in the news mix.
TripAdvisor
If you never book a hotel room without first consulting TripAdvisor, you will almost rule out nightmare travel experiences. I have never stayed in a bad hotel since using this amazing app.
YouTube
Who can live without YouTube? Exactly, nobody. And the Windows Phone app is up there with the best.
Social Camera
Another new one for me. But it’s looking like a must for anyone uploading video from their Nokia Lumia phones. As it says on the tin, it’s the first Windows Phone app that allows you to upload your own videos to YouTube, and the only one that lets you transfer your videos from SkyDrive to YouTube.
Xbox Companion
One of the reasons for owning a Nokia Lumia phone has to be the Xbox link. For more details about the app that never stops playing, see our post.
ESPN ScoreCenter
Covering a wide range of Sports, this ESPN app could be a one-stop shop for North Americans. And as a Brit with a growing interest in NFL and Baseball, it’s fascinating to try and keep tabs on the news. Amazingly, it also has football (soccer) news.
SkySports News
This is my home for British sport, with football, cricket, rugby, golf, tennis, Formula 1 and boxing all well covered. And check out the video section.
BBC News Mobile
The BBC is a world-respected source and this app is great for keeping you in touch with breaking news from a place you can trust, especially when you are abroad. Wherever you are in the world, it’s worth having this in your news mix.
Angry Birds
I still haven’t cracked every level at three stars on the best casual gamer on the planet. So I still find myself having another attempt in a quiet moment.
Flight Control
Another old stand-by for me. I was totally hooked when it came out. And again, it’s there if I need it in a moment of boredom. I tend not to play it on planes though.
Plants vs. Zombies
More evidence that you can feed your addiction to the most compelling games ever invented. Who can fail to love this game and its endless challenges?
Tetris
Keep your Tetris skills in shape whenever you feel like it. Perhaps THE best puzzler ever dreamed of.
Doodle Jump
Try it and buy it. Just do it and you’ll keep coming back for more. Beautifully simple and simply the best little platformer on mobiles.
Super Monkey Ball
Sega’s classic comes into its own on Nokia smartphones as you tilt the screen to get to your goal.
Bejeweled
A gem of a game, need I say more?
Epicurious
A constant companion in the supermarket, Epicurious enables you to find new recipes and buy the ingredients at a glance. The choice of dishes is enough to satisfy the heartiest of appetites.
Endomondo
Comes in very handy when you’ve been overdoing the Epicurious app. With choice of activities, Endomondo produces maps of your efforts and keeps track of your achievements.
Nokia Maps
After living with Lumia for nearly four months now, the preloaded apps that come with it are part of my everyday life. They make up the last five of my 30 apps. I’m a Nokia Maps convert. It’s the best mapping software I’ve seen on a mobile and I use Nokia Drive to get to my destination whenever I get into the car. I’m using Nokia Music AND I have an all-you-can-eat deal with Zune, but Mix radio is a revelation, with its constantly updating playlists. Finally, the Microsoft Office app is proving really useful, especially OneNote and the SkyDrive with free cloud storage space.
Tell us some applications that aren’t on the list that you can’t live without in the comments below!
Nokia Lists 30 Top Apps For Their Nokia Lumia Phones is an article from Everything Windows Phone, the source for Windows Phone News.”
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Photon Cloud Announces Multiplayer Gaming SDK for Windows Phone!
“While we await Microsoft’s version of their multiplayer services (Switchboard) to come to Windows Phone, other third-party options are becoming available. One in particular, Exit Game’s Photon Cloud Networks has announced a new SDK for their multiplayer services for use on the Windows Phone platform.
The service by Exits Games allows developers to take advantage of their cross-platform multiplayer services in the developer’s app with minimal setup and hassle. Developers can use Photon’s Cloud servers or setup their own Photon server.
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Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks!
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“When we think about the distribution industry being disrupted, we tend to think about music and movies, whose physical media and vast shipment infrastructure have been rendered mostly obsolete over the last decade. To a lesser extent, we hear about print, and the effect of e-readers and web consumption on books and magazines. No one is making the change particularly gracefully, and the same can be said of the textbook business, which does millions of dollars of business every year selling incredibly expensive items to students — who likely consider them anachronisms.
Rice University, which has been pushing alternative distribution mechanisms for scholarly publications for years, has announced a new initiative, by which they hope to publish free, high-quality textbooks in core subjects like physics and biology via a non-profit publisher called OpenStax College. It’s the polar opposite of Apple’s iBooks textbooks, which, while they too help drag this dusty industry into the present, amount more to a new sales vector for the publishers than competition.
Rice and OpenStax aren’t the first people to propose open-source or free textbooks. There are collections here and there, like Flat World Knowledge and Apple’s iTunes U — but they’re decidedly short on the type of books a freshman might have to buy for their year of survey courses: Biology 1, Physics 1, Sociology 1, Psychology 1. And 11 Learning has a similar idea of collaboration producing a book, but their creation model may not be economically feasible.
And of course there are the many companies that want to remove textbooks from the equation entirely. Setting up textbook platforms on new devices like Kno and Inkling, making an environment for meta-curricular activities and non-traditional learning like Khan Academy, or virtualizing the whole education experience, something with which many universities are tinkering.
But textbooks are still big business, and their utility in the education system is difficult to argue with right now. So OpenStax splits the difference: fueled by grant money from a number of private foundations (i.e. not government grants), they’re putting together full-on textbooks, peer-reviewed, professionally laid out, and all that. These textbooks will be provided for free in file form. But supplementary materials — quizzes, videos, presentations, and the like, presumably — cost money.
It would be petty to call this a bait and switch, since the bulk of the material is being provided for free. And a savvy professor or TA can scrape quite a few supplementary materials from the web already, thanks to those post-textbook services already mentioned. Providing the meat for free and the potatoes for a price is perfectly reasonable.
What remains to be seen is the quality of the textbooks. So far OpenStax has signed up “in the low tens” of colleged and universities to use the books. Institutions probably are waiting to see how the next year or so plays out: everything is in flux and to commit to one platform over another when the true costs and benefits are still unclear would be a bad move.
OpenStax’s first textbooks, for physics and sociology, will be coming in March, with others following later in the year. A strange time to make a debut, in a way, as the school year is well underway and many intro courses won’t be offered. But it will give time for the creaking machinery of academia to notice, acknowledge, examine, and judge the OpenStax offering. It may be that they can demonstrate their agility in fixing, improving, and expanding the content on the fly, which could either impress or terrify nodding faculty members who use the same text for a decade at a time.”
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Educause Learning Technologies
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The term learning technologies encompasses information and instructional technology, as well as telecommunications tools, applications, and systems that support learning. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) explores the possible benefits and challenges of individual learning technologies, but also considers the potential impact their integration may have on advancing teaching and learning. To maximize the transformative effect of learning technologies, we look for uses of learning technology that are replicable across institutions and disciplines.
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