Four short links: 3 Feb 2009

Three mobile and one web services link today:

  1. Phonegap — interesting project that’s a web-based platform for building apps that run on Blackberry, iPhone, and Android. Yup, write a web page and access the accelerometer. Came out of hacking at iPhoneDevCamp.
  2. GOP API — the Republicans are working to not get left behind by the Dems’ tech savviness. (via Michal’s delicious stream)
  3. One Month as an iPhone Developer — Marco Tabini writes about the lessons he’s learned as an iPhone developer. “5. Never, ever give out a paid app for free. I’ve seen some folks give out their application for free for a limited time as a way of boosting up their ratings and reviews. Invariably, this approach fails miserably, because, as someone put it, the threshold between free and $0.01 is insurmountable for many people.”
  4. SnapTell — image recognition app, so you take a picture of the cover of a book/dvd/whatever and it tells you what you’re looking at, how much it costs on various retailers, etc. Image recognition as UI, not of barcodes but of the actual items. It can pick logos from photos of billboards. This is just brilliance.
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