Tuesday, April 7, 2009

App Nation: Web Applications, Mobile Applications, and iTV Applications



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We are an app nation. Apps are on our phones, on the Internet, and on their way Internet Television. Web applications are accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet and they are software applications coded in browser-supported languages. Mobile applications are developed based on the 6 M's, Movement (location), Moment (time), Me (personalization), Multi-user (community), Money (payments) and Machines (automation). Internet TV applications are developed for set-top boxes, broadband TV's, and remote devices.

The iPhone is what has really made apps a relevant topic amongst the mainstream public and they are in high demand. There are iPhone apps for everything you can imagine. Apple says, "they leverage the groundbreaking technology in iPhone — like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio." They also have designed a great App Store where you can choose from thousands of applications ready to download now. If you have an iPhone you are probably already familiar with apps.

Google now has its own mobile app store for the Android platform and their G1 phone. Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices, based on the Linux kernel, developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. Here are some pics and information from Google.

A new service called Boxee is helping spur the Internet TV app market with its latest announcement of an app box. Boxee is a social media center. With Boxee you can play videos, music and pictures from your PC or from the Internet. You can also share with your friends what albums you're listening to, what movies and TV shows you're watching, send recommendations and more. The App box makes it much easier for everyone else to release new apps and add more content to Boxee. Blip.tv, a video site dedicated to helping great shows find an audience, has already built a Boxee app to share their shows with 350,000 Boxee users. Boxee has also designed an iPhone app that lets you control your AppleTV and Boxee system with the iPhone or iTouch.

Apps are influencing all aspects of our media lives and they play an integral part in processing information effectively. We will see apps spread to a wider range of devices in our homes over the next few years.

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