April 5th, 2011 | Friends | Categories: Data Visualization, Education, Inspiration, Mobile, Strategy, Technology | Tags: Android, Mobile, mobile stats, near field communication, Nexus S, nfc, RFID |
Some great mobile stats:
This is a cool info graph, but one stat has actually changed. Android is the #1 OS as of February this year (whoot):


Mobile internet will pass desktop in a hot minute

This is the current Android fragmentation (right now building to 2.0 and higher is the norm):
Also don’t forget that there is iOS fragmentation, so you need to test on devices that have not been updated to the latest OS.

Android is making a KILLING:

NFC is coming to a phone near you real soon… (better than RFID because it communicates both ways, not just a reader):
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
March 30th, 2011 | Friends | Categories: Development, Education, Events, Inspiration, Installation, Technology | Tags: event, events, physical computing, Robots |
Dorkbot at The Exploratorium tonight, Wednesday, March 30, 7:30pm
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/
BarBot 2011, an art show with Cocktail Robotics at pariSoma in San Francisco, April 1-2 9pm-2am
http://robogames.net/barbot.php
Live Electronic Music and Sound Art Installations by CCRMA and guests (including Trimpin!) at SOMArts in San Francisco, Saturday, April 2, installations 4-8pm free, concert 8pm-12am $10 https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations/

Contributed by Caio Lazzuri
March 3rd, 2011 | Friends | Categories: Education, Online, Social, Technology, Viral | Tags: google, Social, Technology, Viral |
Yet another clean, intuitive site from Google that offers a much-needed service; teach your parents tech today!
