http://techgrenade.com Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:07:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://techgrenade.com/news/bing-launches-daily-deals-aggregator/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Jorgito Nassinagi Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:07:51 +0000 http://techgrenade.com/2011/03/bing-launches-daily-deals-aggregator/#comment-326 It seems to me like Bing, even though their decision to offer just a mobile service seems weird, has made the right reading of the market. New group buying sites are emerging every day and even Google is planning to launch its own. Releasing an aggregator seems more logical, since they don't require a huge sales force, and they can gain presence in hundreds of cities very fast. This article makes a lot of sense on that matter http://blog.pinggers.com/2011/03/as-deal-sites-grow-exponentially-aggregators-are-becoming-vital/. It seems to me like Bing, even though their decision to offer just a mobile service seems weird, has made the right reading of the market. New group buying sites are emerging every day and even Google is planning to launch its own. Releasing an aggregator seems more logical, since they don’t require a huge sales force, and they can gain presence in hundreds of cities very fast. This article makes a lot of sense on that matter http://blog.pinggers.com/2011/03/as-deal-sites-grow-exponentially-aggregators-are-becoming-vital/.

]]> http://techgrenade.com/news/how-html5-is-aiding-in-cross-platform-development/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Adam Blum Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:44:12 +0000 http://techgrenade.com/2011/02/how-html5-is-aiding-in-cross-platform-development/#comment-214 Great writeup. Very helpful to build awareness that HTML5 is useful even for building native apps. A few clarifications about Rhodes: - if you really want to you could just write HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. The power of writing controllers in Ruby should not be ignored. - more generally Rhodes is the only Model View Controller framework for native smartphone development. Regardless of language, MVC rules the web world. We have lots of Java,.NET,etc. web developers use Rhodes for that reason (whether or not they knew Ruby). - Rhodes also has the only support for synchronized offline data - Rhodes has a hosted development and build service called RhoHub (http://rhohub,com) with a larger developer community and many other features such as a hosted sync server and hosted app provisioning and management Great writeup. Very helpful to build awareness that HTML5 is useful even for building native apps. A few clarifications about Rhodes:
- if you really want to you could just write HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. The power of writing controllers in Ruby should not be ignored.
- more generally Rhodes is the only Model View Controller framework for native smartphone development. Regardless of language, MVC rules the web world. We have lots of Java,.NET,etc. web developers use Rhodes for that reason (whether or not they knew Ruby).
- Rhodes also has the only support for synchronized offline data
- Rhodes has a hosted development and build service called RhoHub (http://rhohub,com) with a larger developer community and many other features such as a hosted sync server and hosted app provisioning and management

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