There is a very real sense of data overload at the moment through out businesses and individuals alike. An unacknowledged challenge facing everyone in business today is how to make sense of all the data available. Currently there’s so much data available that it’s difficult to tell what to discard so that you can start to make sense of all the numbers.
Very real opportunities are being created for the savvy entrepreneur. How can you develop a method for delivering useful data to users? How can you filter this data down to real time metrics that are easy to read?
These are all great opportunities for you to take advantage of as you are planning your next mobile application. Looking at the demographics of each platform and the number of applications available, there is an obvious opportunity for those looking to deliver real time data in a useful fashion via a BlackBerry app to BlackBerry users.
These are traditionally business minded users that would have a need of such tools. What sort of BlackBerry app can you envision to deliver useful business information in a pertinent way to users? Envisions and develop this BlackBerry application and you are positioning yourself very well in the modern business landscape.
With virtual good sales already representing the main source of revenue for Social Games on Facebook, we have seen a dramatic shift in the mobile application model this past year towards a similar position. As apps are moving away from advertising as a revenue generator and towards creating in app purchases as the preferred method of monetizing the investment, you will see a shift in not only the style but in the whole mobile application development thought process.
Looking at the rapid growth of the sale of virtual goods in Social Games this is not a surprising trend and it is one that anyone considering iphone application development for their business should consider. If you also consider the fact that mobile applications now rival TV viewing in terms of audience reach you will rapidly see this market continue to advance at meteoric rate to keep pace with the opportunities available.
HTML 4 has been a staple for nearly a decade now in the Internet world and we find that more than ever, developers are seeking new techniques to provide better functionality. Web developers are feeling held back by the constraints of the current language and browsers and are ready for more powerful tools. This is becoming more of an issue with the proliferation of smartphones that is creating an even greater need for smartphone friendly tools.
While tools like jQuery have helped, they have not provided the shift that many web developers are looking to find. On top of that, the Internet and web design are fields where things we learn today can be out-of-date tomorrow, only further pushing the need for a shift to a more robust tool.
HTML 5 introduces a complete set of new fundamentals that make it much easier to structure pages and develop high power web sites that are more smartphone friendly. Most HTML 4 web pages contain a variety of common structures, such as headers, footers and columns and more recently it is almost universal to mark them up using div elements, giving each a descriptive id or class.
To give authors more flexibility, and allow more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics. These tools will usher in a new era of web development with a bold vanguard of web designers at its forefront leading the way.