Ryan Joy (atxryan)

Morgan Stanley predicts that smartphones "will out-ship the global notebook + netbook market in 2010E and out-ship the global PC market (notebook + netbook + desktop) by 2012E."

A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone,
iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.

“If knowledge was available, you should be able to get to it from a phone. At that moment I realized that I had spent most of my adult life working to put a personal computer on every desktop in every home at Microsoft and it occured to me that there was a fundamental shift going [...]

In the course of researching mobile web application prototyping and testing, I came across Mob4Hire, a new service that aims to help mobile application developer with reliable testers through crowdsourcing. I went ahead and signed up. I look forward to testing out my first mobile application and checking out Mob4Hire at the same time. With [...]

The Austin American-Statesman has partnered with Quattro Wireless and updated their mobile web portal. You can view the new mobile site by visiting http://statesman.com in your mobile browser, or directly by visiting http://statesman.qwapi.com. I’d never seen the qwapi.com domain before, but a little Google search shows that the service is quite popular with content portals. [...]

Here’s a link to the presentation I gave during Refresh Austin‘s September meeting. Mobile Web: A Primer on Design and Development

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