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Comment on Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper by mark

mark — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:10:15 +0000

Thanks, Rhodri. I’ll have a look.

Comment on Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper by Rhodri Thomas

Rhodri Thomas — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:59:29 +0000

Hi Mark, an interesting and timely paper for us – our mobile learning systems implementation isn’t a web app per se, but certainly closer to this than other (moodle community) offerings to date.

Hopefully you’ll likewise find our notes of interest: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/mLearn

Comment on Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper by mark

mark — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:57:42 +0000

No, you’re right, not everybody is. But the audience for this briefing paper IS educational institutions. Therefore the benefits of ease of development, control and – above all – deployment are the purposes of the overview.

I in no way believe that Web Apps should be THE WAY and that Native Apps are not. But I believe that there has to be a viable solution to the fragmentation problem for certain sectors and markets. And I believe that the web is that solution.

Maybe not a perfect one. But a viable and improving one.

Comment on Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper by Norbert Colon

Norbert Colon — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:48:03 +0000

Not everybody is an institution. The User Experience of a web app will always be at best sub-optimal. Web apps – let’s party like it’s…er….1997…

Comment on Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper by mark

mark — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:10:46 +0000

And your point is?

For institutions, having the app in a place they have immediate and unrestricted access to gives them greater control over maintenance and updating, etc. Their “web server” may well sit in the cloud on Amazon for example…doesn’t necessarily mean it’s sitting in a room on campus.

The point is that – again, for educational institutions – having a web-based, hosted app rather than a native app with the app store/marketplace conditions enforced as they are, can be an advantage.

Not sure if your comment is supposed to be a snipe or not, erm…”Norbert”..

Comment on Mobile Web Apps: A Briefing Paper by Norbert Colon

Norbert Colon — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:52:46 +0000

“Advantages – You can host the app on your own web server.”

Right…

“…technology now advances crabwise, i.e. backwards…” Umberto Eco

Comment on Augmented Reality – A Game Changer in Mobile Learning? by business continuity

business continuity — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:05:36 +0000

This is really cool. I can’t believe that you could actually pull this off. The picture of the little boy looks like something that might take place a hundred years from now. I can’t wait until we can see this in our child’s room. Will they ever go back to blocks and toy trucks?

Comment on Mobile Web Roundup by Bob @ Cat Illnesses

Bob @ Cat Illnesses — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:22:23 +0000

That’s really interesting. I didn’t know about the viewport meta tag with the content attribute that allows together with media queries for proper page rendering to adapt to various screen sizes. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on New release of Elgg is just around the corner by Mike Peters

Mike Peters — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:32:55 +0000

Thats such a crazy idea for a social media platform. It seems that most of the ones that will be big have already been discovered, but after looking at the site, it seems like a really good idea. Not only a good idea, but that you already have some traction. Unique. I like it.

Comment on New release of Elgg is just around the corner by Waterproof Socks

Waterproof Socks — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:43:43 +0000

Sounds like a powerful tool, and from what I’ve read it’s still going strong.