Weekly Wrap Up “Mobile Thinking”: Pros and Cons Between Mobile Web and Mobile Apps, Money for Mobile Devlopers, Build Once and Deploy to Any, Follow the Mobile User, and One Ted Video

This is my weekly mobile wrap up around “thinking”. You can find my weekly mobile wrap up around “trends” in a separate post. You can also check out my ongoing mobile news & event updates from my Mobile page.

• Mobile Web or Mobile Apps?

Lots of people ask: should we build mobile web or mobile applications? It’s a common questions for everyone who is thinking of going mobile direction more. I found this article very informative.

It lists out the pros and cons between mobile web and mobile apps.

• N2Y4 Mobile Challenge, Money for Mobile Developers Aiming to Change the World

The nonprofit N2Y4 Mobile Challenge from Netsquared is accepting project submissions from mobile developers through this month and will provide seed funding to a handful of lucky winners. The submissions so far are quite interesting. You can see some early submissions.

• Can you build one mobile app once and deploy it to multiple mobile platforms?

This used to be my question. Apparently, some people are working on it. Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone.

• Follow the Mobile User, Thoughts from Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products.

Focus on the mobile user, and all else will follow. Simpler data, better browsers, and a smoother experience.

• Finally, One Mobile Related Video for You to Enjoy: TED - David Pogue: “Cool new things you can do with your mobile phone”
  

You can also check out the other two mobile videos that I recently posted about ( Nokia Morph and MIT Sixsense Technology)

Tags: google, mobile, mobile apps, Mobile Computing, Mobile Web, six sense technology, Smartphone, TED, Vic Gundotra, weekly wrap up