With the launch of the new YouTube design at the end of the year, YouTube Channels have become a lot more customizable with four different layout templates, and rumor has it that things are about to become even more customizable—at least for brands.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
Sencha Touch is a free mobile JavaScript framework that lets web developers build sophisticated touch friendly sites for mobile devices with HTML5 compliant web browsers (Android, iPhone and more). In Podcast 52, I spoke with Sencha CEO Michael Mullany about developing mobile web apps using Sencha Touch. We also discussed his thoughts about Windows 8 tablets and the Internet Explorer 10 browser. Mr. Mullany offered interesting insight into issues in developing web-based apps for Android, jQuery mobile compared to Sencha Touch and new features that will be introduced with Sencha Touch 2 (e.g., native sensor support).
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If you use mobile apps that work with Facebook or Twitter then you are probably familiar with the process for giving those apps permission to access your account on those services. Microsoft is now providing developers the ability to access Windows Live accounts in the same manner, which means third party apps can access information like contacts and photos on Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive.
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LinkedIn announced the launch of a new set of application-program interfaces that will give app developers access to its Company and Jobs content.
With the summer approaching, some of us may slacking on our social medial monitoring. If you’re one of those individuals, don’t worry. Below are the 5 headlines that you may have missed this week, but shouldn’t have.
If you’re a small scale developer, take a look at the chart below. I took the MAUs of three large scale developers: Electronic Arts (EA), CrowdStar and Zynga and compared them to a developer that received 50,000 monthly active users (YOU).
It is not the number of apps available for Windows Phone 7 that is at issue. It is the number of important apps available on other mobile platforms but not for Windows Phone 7. A few that come to mind are Dropbox, Evernote and Google Voice. Porting an app from one mobile platform to another is not a simple matter. With this in mind, Microsoft announced the availability of resources to specifically help iPhone developers writer software for Windows Phone 7.
Leveraging your iPhone development expertise to build Windows Phone 7 applications
Microsoft created a website of resources to help developers for other mobile platforms to write for Windows Phone 7.
Windows Phone 7 Interoperability
This includes a series of articles by Jesse Liberty.
iPhone to Windows Phone 7–Series I
While these resources are definitely a big help, the real test is whether enough Windows Phone 7 devices have been sold to iPhone developers to allocate resources for Windows Phone 7 development. This certainly has not been the case for the apps listed earlier as well as Microsoft’s own developers who have produced great apps like PhotoSynth for iOS that are not available for Windows Phone 7.
Via ZDNet
Hey game developers! If you’ve got a great idea for a new mobile game you could win up to $10,000 in the GameCast 2011 Contest, hosted by MoMinis, a cross-platform mobile gaming solution for developers. How does the contest work? It’s simple. Just build your mobile game using the MoMinis Studio and you could win up to $10,000 and a distribution deal with GetJar. Read on to learn more.
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The main focus of Appcelerator/IDC’s developer report is, of course, Android and iOS (Apple).
Android Momentum Plateaus, Says New Developer Report (ReadWriteWeb)
If the survey data reflects reality, it is not a surprise that developer interest in Android is plateauing. The main issue looks like Android fragmentation (different versions of the operating system).
My main interesting, however, is what RRW calls “the second tier” of third and fourth place. Developer interest dropped for both RIM’s BlackBerry as well as Microsoft’s Windows Phone. However, interest in developing for BlackBerry devices dropped even faster than interest in Windows Phone. The result is that developer interest in mobile platforms now looks like this:
1. iOS (iPhone/iPad)
2. Android (phone/tablet)
3. Windows Phone
4. RIM BlackBerry
Terence McGhee, a small scale developer from Champaign, Illinois, has a new Facebook game set to release on May 21st: Thugz Revenge. Space Force Fleet Commander, the last game developed by McGhee, was reported on Social Times in January. As stated in the previous article, McGhee focuses primarily on challenging harcore gamers, “A game must have a certain degree of challenge. It must reward good decision-making and punish poor-decision making.” If this is his philosophy, what’s in store for gamers in Thugz Revenge?
