Giuseppe Taibi's Techlog » Emerging Technologies http://www.giuseppetaibi.com Impressions and bookmarks about my technology journeys Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:44:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Look at the Future through Some Special Glass http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2011/03/29/a-look-at-the-future-through-some-special-glass/ http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2011/03/29/a-look-at-the-future-through-some-special-glass/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:13:32 +0000 yus http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/?p=558 In the past 10 years I logged several trips to Corning, upstate New York (Google Maps), home to my wife’s family and of the mythical Corning Glassworks, creators of many glass based products, from Pyrex to fiber optics. The visionaries at Corning Glassworks produced this video to give us a glimpse of how glass will continue to deliver amazing products in the digital information age.

The amazing Museum of Glass is also in Corning.

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]]> http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2009/11/06/my-talk-on-future-of-media-iphone-ecosystem-video-in-italian/feed/ 0 Venice Sessions 4: The Pictures are In http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2009/10/23/venice-sessions-4-the-pictures-are-in/ http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2009/10/23/venice-sessions-4-the-pictures-are-in/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:35 +0000 yus http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/?p=376 Venice Sessions 4: The Future of Media In The Digital Age is now over. It was a memorable event, followed online by 3600 unique users and with a very active Twitter channel. A true success, especially for Italy. Special thanks to Telecom Italia CEO Franco Bernabè, Luca De Biase, Salvo Mizzi, and the amazing Venice Sessions staff.

Venice Sessions Official Website |   Facebook Group |   Follow Venice Sessions on Twitter |   Venice Sessions on YouTube

Venice Sessions IV – Giuseppe Taibi – iPhone Media Ecosystem

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Media Coverage

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Live streaming video beginning tomorrow, Tuesday October 20 at 9am Italy time, at http://venicesessions.webcasting.it/

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WAVE Factory

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I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Public Radio Player 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. This app is already half way in the top 10 free Music apps on the iTunes App Store. PRP 2.0 was developed by a team assembled by the great minds at Public Radio Exchange (PRX). Bringing this app to life has been possible thanks to the contribution of many stakeholders. My involvement with this project has been primarily as an expert in hybrid development techniques for the iPhone. Hybrid apps are a class of apps developed primarily using web standards (HTML, CSS and Javascript), then wrapped around a native Objective C/Cocoa Touch so that they can be conveniently distributed as binary via iTunes App Store. There are several advantages of following this approach to building iPhone apps:

  1. Short learning curve: Objective C is not as easy to learn as Javascript
  2. Faster development time: no need to compile app to test it as Javascript is interpreted
  3. Tapping into a large pool of talent: there are far more web developers than Objective C ones
  4. Portability: WebKit, the core engine for Mobile Safari, is also the core engine for other evolved smartphones web browsers such as Android, Palm Pre and Nokia’s Symbian.
WebKit is the fastest web engine on earth. It is also the one with the lightest footprint and, to top it off, it is also open source. In addition, WebKit has full support for HTML 5, including local client-side persistent storage via SQLlite, another popular open source technology. Unless an app requires access to fast graphics, as is the case for most videogames, it can be developed as an hybrid app leveraging the powerful features of WebKit and reaping the many benefits of it. Google has already demonstrated a cross-platform version of the popular Gmail web app built with WebKit that works on both Android and iPhone, and works offline because it caches messages in its local SQLite database.
While developers can build hybrid apps completely from scratch, it helps using some of the already available hybrid apps frameworks. The most popular of which at this moment appears to be PhoneGap. While PhoneGap is definitely a step in the right direction and would be a great fit for apps that are not trying to do too much, more advanced developers should consider QuickConnect for iPhone as it exposes a greater list of native iPhone SDK objects via Javascript than PhoneGap does, at least at the time of writing this. PRP 2.0 was developed using QuickConnect for iPhone. Lee and the QuickConnect community have been very helpful to get to the finish line. Both frameworks are open source and I find that QuickConnect is very actively developed by its founder Lee Barney, currently a professor at Brigham Young University – Idaho, with deep experience as CIO/CTO of a web and mobile software company. Lee Barney’s recently published book on iPhone hybrid apps development, available also at Amazon.com in paperback and for the Kindle. I am tracking all iPhone Hybrid Frameworks on my blog at: http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/iphone-hybrid-frameworks-tracker/
Cross-platform hybrid mobile apps development is also the main focus of “Smartphone Application Development”, the class I teach at Harvard University Extension School (see  http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2009-10/courses/23263.jsp )
I get a kick listening the audio promos voiced by Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me host Peter Sagal:
On Air Promo 1 - MP2 download
On Air Promo 2 - MP2 download
On Air Promo 3 - MP2 download
On Air Promo 4 - MP2 download
Web Bumper (with music) - MP2 download
Web Bumer (dry) - MP2 download
More info on the Public Radio Player at www.publicradioplayer.org
]]> http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2009/07/24/public-radio-player-20-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch-available-on-itunes-app-store/feed/ 1 Yes, the World Does Need This Chrome Browser from Google! http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2008/09/02/yes-the-world-does-need-this-chrome-browser-from-google/ http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/2008/09/02/yes-the-world-does-need-this-chrome-browser-from-google/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:49:09 +0000 yus http://www.giuseppetaibi.com/?p=90 My knee-jerk reacttion when I first learned that Google is going to release a new web browser was “What? Does the world need yet another web browser?”. I changed my mind after I flipped through the first pages of the (highly addictive!) comicbook-style introduction to Chrome. Chrome sounds like a dream coming true for web application developers and users ( = the whole Internet thing). Gotta check out the Chrome comicbook here. Also, read the announcement from the official Google blog.

Chrome Comicbook

Crome is really going to catch Microsoft by a storm. There, I said it.

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Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

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