Mobile Site Identifies Cities Where iPhone Developer Jobs are Plentiful… and Not
Detroit, the Motor City, may be the best city to look for a job in the automobile industry, but if you are an iPhone Developer you are going to have a hard time finding work. If you don’t live in Detroit, don’t get too excited because there a few other major cities that have very low iPhone application developer jobs per the city’s population.
Beginning this year, mobile job board FoneGigs has been compiling a list of America’s easiest and hardest cities to find mobile developer and marketing jobs. Surprising, Read more »
Editor’s note: The webinar has ended and all links go to the product page.
As many of you know, I am very very picky about mobile sitebuilders. I get pitches to write about them all the time on mobienthusiast.mobi, and I have so far turned every one of them down because they are clunky and don’t work or make you use a subdomain or make you pay for the service every month without removing the company’s branding.
Yesterday I attended a webinar [edit: the webinar is over and now links to a product page with a how-to video from the webinar] hosted by my friends and mentors Jason Fladlien and Wilson Mattos. I know them personally, I have been coached by both of them and have paid a lot of money in travel fees and conference fees to see them speak because they are that good. Those of you who know me, know that I rarely attend conferences because I have small children at home and the investment had better be worth it for me to leave town.
The first half of the webinar is all about mobile and marketing and stats. The host, Jason Fladlien, gives slide after slide of marketing tips and techniques for why your clients should buy a true mobile site and not just one that has been modified for mobile with a WordPress plugin. I plan to use these strategies personally, as they make total sense to me.
The second part shows a mobile sitebuilder that has an emulator inside the WordPress dashboard, allows you to create icons on the fly without much editing, and has an interface that looks like the home page of an iPhone.
There will be a second webinar today at 12 noon Pacific Daylight time, and if you are interested in working with local businesses (or online businesses) without mobile sites, there are a lot of strategies here that you won’t want to miss. I would urge you to register for it even if it is the middle of the night in your part of the world, because they will email you a link to the replay.
I don’t remember everything I saw, but here are some of the things Jason touched on in the webinar and will likely cover again in the webinar today:
- Mobile marketing
- How to find clients
- How to build a mobile site (he does it live)
- Importance of keeping a site lightweight to load quickly and keep data costs low
- Why not to use video and how to do it if you insist on using it anyway
- How to make a header for a mobile site quickly and easily
- Where to find icons
- Q&A
I am sure I am forgetting something, but the overwhelming feeling I got looking at this mobile sitebuilder is that it has what I need and what I have been wanting personally for a long time. Let’s face it, it is very difficult work to make a mobile site work on a phone, and when you add tablets like the iPad into the mix, it’s very easy to throw your hands up in frustration and say, “ok, it’s just going to look like this.” Well, as a professional web designer, you can’t afford to do that when your reputation is on the line.
Disclosure: I am an affiliate for the product because I believe in the team, their customer support, and their refund policy. I only post products with affiliate links here if I have personally tested them or if I know the developer and have experienced their customer support and refund policy to be valid.
If you see this post after the webinar, contact me and let me know.
Mobile takes center stage at the 2010 South By Southwest Festival Interactive Track, which runs March 12 through March 16 at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, USA. The following is a partial list of seminars and training on the schedule.
What’s Hot in Mobile at SXSW
- Maps 2010: How iPad Impacts the LBS Market
- The UX of Mobile
- Touch + The Holy Grail of Delight
- Organizational Pitfalls on the Path to Multichannel Experience
- Time + Social + Location. What’s Next In Mobile Experiences?
- Mobile – the Great Channel Equalizer
- iPad: New Opportunities for Content Creators
- The Real Mobile Scoop – Agency, Manufacturer, and Carrier
- Web Evolution: The Rise of Mobile, APIs and Runtimes
- Is App-vertising the Answer
- Augmenting Your Brain With Android
- Google Hackathon: Mobile Maps, App Engine, Chrome Extensions
- What If Your Phone Had Five Senses?
- Cross Device Accessibility: Is This For Real?
- Building Mobile Games on the Windows Phone Platform
- Mobile Computing and it’s Contribution to Technology’s Exponential Growth
- The Final (Mobile) Frontier: Battery Life in Africa
- How We Built the SXSW Mobile App
- Convergence 2010: Ten Cool Things That Could Happen This Year
- Mobile Development with the Flash Platform: iPhone and More
- Augmented Reality – Gimmicky Trend or Market-Ready Technology?
- Pass it Back! Kid Apps on Grown-up Devices
- Location Beyond iPhone: Locating 100+M Phones
- Location-Based Marketing and Advertising: Targeting the Mobile Consumer
- Mobile Content is Social
- Mobile Advertising in 2010: How to Pay the Bills
- QR Codes and 2D Barcodes: Bridging Physical & Digital
- Mobile Commerce
- Mapping and Geolocation: Turnkey Approaches You Need to Know
The full SXSW Mobile schedule (may not be viewable on some phones) includes information on presenters and a summary of what each session will cover.
While you’re there, check out the updated SXSW.mobi site for mobile access to the South by Southwest Festival.
If you dream of creating the next killer iphone app, you’ll need the latest code to do it. Download iPhone SDK code (computer link, not mobile) at the iPhone Dev Center, and see what’s new on the iPhone developer site. There are new video tutorials, coding how-to’s, an iPhone reference library, and iPhone sample code. Read more »
From LinkedIn (computer link):
“Anyone know a good, reliable iPhone-iPodTouch developer I can hire? We’re a branding/marketing outfit that has an Apple AppStore product spec’d out, ready to go. The only missing member of our team is the developer! If you’re an Apple Developer with experience with the iPhone?iPod Touch SDK and have written/sold a product through the AppStore, we’d love to work with you. If you haven’t sold anything through the AppStore, this could be your first success. We want a programmer that’s efficient, reliable and creative. This is a project for hire, unless you’d like to participate in the revenue. That’s always an option. You can check us out at (computer only link) robfrankel.com, where fun is good, but making money is even better.”
Thank you to everyone who emailed, sent twitter tweets, and called to tell us mobi enthusiast mobi was not resolving on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The problem is fixed thanks to Rob Horvath of develops.mobi (computer link). He is working on the mobile version of develops.mobi. For those of you who don’t know Rob, he is a .mobi developer genius and has helped more people than I can count. If you have a premium .mobi domain name that you want to develop, he is your guy. Tell him Holly at mobienthusiast.mobi sent you.
I’d also like to thank Shaun Morton of microblogging.com (computer link). If not for him, I would have no idea what people were seeing. Thanks for the screenshots and for your patience, and yes, I plan to get an iPhone next week and will stop bugging you!
Thank you, iPhone and iPod touch mobile internet users, for your patience. We now return you to your regularly scheduled mobi blog.
iPhone App Deadline is July 7 at 12 pm PDT
Have you made an iPhone app? Did you remember to submit it? Well what are you waiting for? The App store launches on July 11, 2008, but the deadline is upon us.
From the email:
“To ensure your application can be considered for the exciting launch of the App Store, submit your application by 12 PM PDT, on July 7, 2008. We will continue to accept applications after this time, however your application may not be available until after the launch of the App Store. Conduct final testing of your application with iPhone OS beta eight and submit your app today.”
Log In Now (computer link only) to submit today.
Ok iPhone developers, here we go… the new SDK is now available at Apple Developer Connection” (computer link, not mobile) This is the 8th SDK released by Apple for the iPhone. To download it, you need to register at Apple (no charge). To use the SDK you’re going to need a mac with the latest version of OSX. Sorry PC and Mac Tiger users.
Let’s see what kind of brilliant iPhone apps you will make with your shiny new SDK.
