Wipro Consulting Services is conducting a market research study on mobile developer communities. We are looking for a broad range of mobile developers participate in a 1-hour paid interview session via phone that will focus on the following areas:
1. Experience with developing mobile applications using multiple platform technologies such as Java, Plusmo, Brew Mobile Platform, Apple iPhone, etc.
2. Best practices for community and vendor interaction (forums, technical support, application development, Go-To-Market).
3. Challenges unique to small and medium-sized developer companies (handling multiple devices, screen sizes, platforms, etc.).
4. Interacting with carrier networks through API’s such as SMS Send, Location Based Services, etc.
The ideal interview candidate will have:
1. 2+ years experience in mobile application development
2. Experience working across multiple developer communities, devices, and platforms
3. Must be U.S. based
We are interested in hearing from organizations of all sizes and with a broad set of application experience (from business productivity apps for enterprise customers to games and widgets for individual consumers).
All interviewee identity information will remain confidential (name, company, contact, etc.).
For more information please contact conor dot frickman at wipro dot com.
Thank you,
WCS
This post appears to be fine if anyone is interested
I'm interested, if you are willing to take Canadians in the survey (via Skype or Live Messenger)
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Hi,
I have read and found xda-dev a huge help. I have been a reader off and on since 2004 when I started a port of Mozilla Firefox to Windows Mobile (called Minimo). Minimo effectively has been come a new mobile effort at Mozilla called Fennec. We have been focusing a lot of energy on linux (specifically the Maemo platform), but want to speed up our Window Mobile effort.
We are looking for Mobile Platform Engineers to help work on Windows Mobile. If you are interested, please send me and email with your resume/cv.
The job description is:
The Mozilla Corporation is looking for skilled developers to work with the Mozilla Open Source community and partner companies to develop the next generation of web experiences for mobile devices. This is a small enthusiastic team that aims to affect millions of users every day! Come help shape the future of the web on mobiles.
We are looking for you to come in and contribute to the core Gecko platform as well as one or more mobile platforms. In general we are looking for people with strong fundamentals, ability to problem solve, and the ability to come up to speed on a large and complex code base.
* BS in Computer Science or equivalent, MS preferred
* 3+ years experience developing C/C++ applications
* Experience in systems programming, tools development, interpreters/compilers, or graphical layout engines
* Experience developing multi-platform client applications
* Experience with one or more mobile platforms
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work with a geographically distributed team
* Ability to quickly learn and be effective with a large code base
* Participating and contributing to Open Source projects a *huge* plus
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Regards,
Doug Turner
[email protected]
[email protected]
Interesting. I should hope people come in their droves. Then again, it's a hope.
Shunjie Hu Speaks on Real-time web with Adobe Flex 4 & Flash Player 10.1 at AFPS 2010
In the web 2.0 and RIA ecology, user requirements now require real-time information to be feed to the application. Shunjie Hu will be in Bangalore this August to explore how we can achieve real-time application using a variety of technology like Adobe Stratus 2.0 (RTMFP) and other open standards like XMPP. He will look into both the client and server side of the technology and see how we can achieve a lightweight and responsive real time application. At Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010, to be held 25-26 August, Shunjie will also explore how we can incorporate these technologies into contemporary social media applications.
Hu Shunjie is a Front-end web developer with the passion to spread the RIA goodness all over the world, specializing in real-time web applications via the use of the Flash Platform and JavaScript AJAX. He is constantly racking his brains for new ideas to bring the RIA movement forward, as well as networking the local community. While not coding, Shunjie runs the Singapore Flex user group and organized several Flash and RIA related events like The ActionScript Conference and RIAction. He is currently employed by Seesmic.
Attend AFPS 2010 for the sheer value of the content! No other conference in India offers such a comprehensive mix of technical and creative content, delivered by the industry's leading speakers and platform experts. Across two days, you have access to over forty presentations including inspiring keynotes from legendary Adobe speakers. You also have the opportunity to hang out at the expo area and connect with Adobe partners, industry leaders and peer developers and designers. With over 2000 attendees sharing the same passion as you, imagine the opportunities to network and further your goals.
Need more reasons? As the single, largest Flash Platform conference in India, at AFPS you get to hear about stuff in the roadmap and future directions before anyone else. Some of the specific highlights include: deep dive sessions around the latest product releases in the Adobe Flash Platform including exciting recent developments like Flash on devices, and targeted sessions for newcomers to the platform as well. For more information, visit: adobesummit.com
AFPS 2010 is homespun by Saltmarch Media, producers of Great Indian Developer Summit and Developer March – India’s biggest and independent polyglot conference and portal for software developers.
A Saltmarch Media
E: info AT saltmarch dot com
Ph: +91 80 4005 1000
shankarjain2010 said:
In the web 2.0 and RIA ecology, user requirements now require real-time information to be feed to the application. Shunjie Hu will be in Bangalore this August to explore how we can achieve real-time application using a variety of technology like Adobe Stratus 2.0 (RTMFP) and other open standards like XMPP. He will look into both the client and server side of the technology and see how we can achieve a lightweight and responsive real time application. At Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010, to be held 25-26 August, Shunjie will also explore how we can incorporate these technologies into contemporary social media applications.
Hu Shunjie is a Front-end web developer with the passion to spread the RIA goodness all over the world, specializing in real-time web applications via the use of the Flash Platform and JavaScript AJAX. He is constantly racking his brains for new ideas to bring the RIA movement forward, as well as networking the local community. While not coding, Shunjie runs the Singapore Flex user group and organized several Flash and RIA related events like The ActionScript Conference and RIAction. He is currently employed by Seesmic.
Attend AFPS 2010 for the sheer value of the content! No other conference in India offers such a comprehensive mix of technical and creative content, delivered by the industry's leading speakers and platform experts. Across two days, you have access to over forty presentations including inspiring keynotes from legendary Adobe speakers. You also have the opportunity to hang out at the expo area and connect with Adobe partners, industry leaders and peer developers and designers. With over 2000 attendees sharing the same passion as you, imagine the opportunities to network and further your goals.
Need more reasons? As the single, largest Flash Platform conference in India, at AFPS you get to hear about stuff in the roadmap and future directions before anyone else. Some of the specific highlights include: deep dive sessions around the latest product releases in the Adobe Flash Platform including exciting recent developments like Flash on devices, and targeted sessions for newcomers to the platform as well. For more information, visit: adobesummit.com
AFPS 2010 is homespun by Saltmarch Media, producers of Great Indian Developer Summit and Developer March – India’s biggest and independent polyglot conference and portal for software developers.
A Saltmarch Media
E: info AT saltmarch dot com
Ph: +91 80 4005 1000
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I'm not exactly clear on what your talking about.... or if this even belongs here.... but, I am going to say, I agree with you? Did you just copy/paste this from some website??
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Hey all,
I've been an XDA member for a little while now and love the work that comes out of here. This year I'm working with Mozilla and the Open Video Alliance to put on the 3rd annual Open Video Conference.
In addition to a lot of great open web and open source projects this year we are offering a Jailbreak Station. It will be a place where attendees can bring their iOS device, have it jailbroken and learn the benefits and risks of having a jailbroken device.
We're looking for volunteers who are hack savy and experienced to volunteer to operate this jailbreaking station.
Benefits of Volunteering:
1. Free OVC T-Shirt
2. Free food!
3. Complimentary registration
4. A chance to network (lots of great industry folks at this event)
5. Be a part of the team and help spread the word on open source, hacking and being a more informed consumer
Supporters of this year include New York Law School, Zencoder, Mozilla and we're pleased to announce that Google has recently joined as a supporter. Many, many more commercial and non-commercial companies/orgs will be represented here too.
We need you! If you're interested please PM me Mod edit: removed email
This does not belong here. Try i-phone developers.
Below is the text of a brief email interview conducted with Sarah Teng, Director of Marketing at Apsalar, for an article about app analytics that will be published soon to the XDA Portal. If you have any experiences with specific analytics providers, post them in this forum.
What are the most valuable pieces of data that come out of your product? Why? Give examples of how I might get actionable data, make a change, and improve results.
Apsalar provides free in-app & campaign attribution analytics that provide actionable data for developers to improve their business. Developers find tremendous value in our cohort analysis, trending report, funnel analysis & the ability to automatically track in-app revenue. These features give developers the tools to measure engagement, retention and monetization. We recently published a case study with Trivi.al, where they leveraged our funnel analysis to identify a key bottleneck in their user invite process, and using that data, were able to double their viral coefficient (a measure of virality of their app.) We also helped Motion Math double their conversion rates (see case study here).
What most differentiates you from your competitors (features, pricing, etc)?
Apsalar differentiates itself in a few key ways. The first is that we are a completely free analytics solution. We want to give tools to developers to help them build better apps, which thousands have done using our analytics. Also, we are a mobile first solution, not a web solution ported over to mobile. This is key because we have built an analytics platform with mobile developers in mind, using mobile identifiers and metrics, vs. working around web-based metrics like the pageview. Finally, we are focused on behavioral metrics, such as users' revenue, engagement, and retention. our ability to track revenue automatically for developers is an extremely valuable feature. Developers need an easy and accurate picture of how their business is performing, and looking at which SKUs are generating the most revenue, including slicing that data by marketing campaign source, is invaluable information that helps them build a better business, not just a better app.
Explain your range of pricing and, if you have a low tier or free option, what features are only available to premium users?
Our analytics solution is completely free, and there are no usage limits.
Are there any technical aspects of implementation that would be helpful to explain?
In order to gain access to Apsalar's analytics platform, developers simply need to download our lightweight SDK and drop it into their app. The basic integration process takes ~5 minutes.
What advice would you give to help make new independent app developers more successful?
Measure & focus on engagement of users, not quantity of users. Focus on measuring the right metrics to track using a funnel or cohort analysis, and optimize your app for high engagement metrics. We recently published an ebook on this topic, explaining which 5 engagement metrics developers must track for their mobile apps.
Related to the above, in your mind what makes an app successful? Why do some "great" apps not get noticed?
With ~1.5M apps in the app stores today, it takes more than simply a great app to get noticed. Most developers use paid solutions to acquire users, but ensuring these users remain highly engaged with the application is the key. Our Big Data Lab recently released some data showing which categories of apps generate the most in-app purchases and saw that the apps that were unable to generate engagement were conincidentally unable to generate revenue. Feel free to check out some more of our data findings on our Big Data Lab Page.
As we know innovation is every where in every single mind all around the world, so its always better to collaborate, communicate and brainstorm with the ever growing crowd of people across the globe. This will help to ideate & enhance the innovation process for any individual. For this to achieve, one should be familiar with the social networking websites specially to the niche sites designed for specific users. One such example of a niche social network in the field of information technology is findnerd.com which provide an innovative & creative platform for the technology people to enhance and sharpen their tech skills. The specialty of this platform is its community forum that allows users to collaborate with each other to explore & ideate on various technology queries along with genuine solutions, as tech experts can post & view php, C, android, java questions and answers, etc. and can get the highly relevant solutions within shortest possible time-frame. We also know that in web technology environment PHP technology is highly popular among tech nerds so these technocrats look for such tech forum sites where they can search for php questions and answers & innovate themselves.
Hope to see more such niche social networks with specific features.