Author: Mr. Mike

As I wait in the airport for my flight to board, I figured I would put together a quick Mobile Connections 2011 ’Top 5 take-a-ways’ post from my perspective. Lots more detail in my previous posts for each session, this is just my ‘mind dump’ without looking back at my individual session notes. My original “big … Continue reading "My Top 5 Mobile Connections 2011 Take-A-Ways"

Speaker: Tim Huckaby  Chairman of InterKnowlogy.com  Uses Awesomium control to embed web content into WPF application for kiosks/etc. Natural User Interface (NUI) =  touching the screen (or manipulating the screen without touching it) Tenants The content should define the experience  The “Grandma Huckaby Test”: the ability to effectively use the kiosk without training No one … Continue reading "My Notes: 3 Screens and the Cloud: How NUI Technologies Play Nice Together"

Speaker: Wei-Meng Lee Wei’s talk was very good, but unfortunately for me, it covered many points that I had already been introduced to in the two other Location based sessions I had attended within the past two days.  Here are the main takeaways I got from the session that were not already covered in the other sessions: TIP: … Continue reading "My Notes: Building Location Aware Android Apps"

Speaker: Doron Grinstein (BiTKOO)   (Involved with development of FastPass at Disney) Cloud computing is not a server with a longer extension cord (co-location of our hardware). Cloud computing definition (in his mind): Ability of 3rd party to store, process, search, compute, without being able to look at my data even with a court order.  Algorithms  should support … Continue reading "My Notes: The New Age of Cloud Computing Eliminating the Need to Write Security Code"

Speaker: Nils Puhlmann, Chief Security officer, Zynga Inc.  Co-founder Cloud Security Alliance Zynga (maker of FarmVille, CityVille, Mofia Wars, etc) adds as many as 1000 servers a week to keep up with growth. “We have to accept what we all know to be elemental – that taking a defensive position can, at best, only limit … Continue reading "My Notes: Securing Innovation | Cloud Connections Keynote"