Time will tell, but the team over at Google is doing their darnedest to help empower anyone with the desire (not necessarily the skill) to create their own Android apps.
Their new “App Inventor” is a product that’s been in development for more than a year, and promised to bring Android development capabilities to the masses. Check-out the info they’ve already made available, and watch the video for a quick overview:
I love the idea of moving as much “stuff” as possible into “the cloud” for all of the obvious reasons…
I have nothing to back-up, no worries about my computer dying, or being lost, and I can get at my “stuff” from anywhere.
That’s been working great for me (and, my clients) for email, scheduling, documents, and more, but there was always “stuff” – Some odd file, or something that just “fell through the cracks.”
Dropbox has changed my way of dealing with that “stuff.”
Dropbox is a free service (and free is good!) that provides you with 2 GB of online storage (but read-on to get even more storage for free), and which provides simple, lightweight programs you download to “hook it up” to your Windows, Linux, and Mac computers, as well as for your Android and Apple mobile devices (iPhone & iPad).
Every day, more & more people discover that Twitter is a great tool to drive traffic to your site, build new business, and to help retain existing customers.
But what entrepreneur has the time to “Tweet” all the time, on top of everything else?
Here at webgroupWest, we recently started using a new technology that automatically Tweets when there’s new content on the site, and can even automatically Tweet when there’s interesting information from elsewhere on the web, which we feel will be of interest to our clients.
It’s pretty cool stuff.
If you’d like to learn more about automatic Tweets to support your business, just contact us (and of course, you can always follow us on Twitter).
Over the years, I’ve managed to migrate all of our our operations to “the cloud,” using web-based applications, as opposed to their desktop elders.
As I’ve written before (and preached to our clients), the benefits are numerous… No more having to maintain hardware and networks, instant sharing and collaboration with team members without needing an infrastructure, and so-forth.
One of the last hurdles (for me) was getting the ease-of-use I wanted, being able to work with what I need to work with, without having everything running as tabs in my browser.