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Digg founder says: Mobile Web is Next

Still looking for reasons to port your mobile application to the Android platform? This was found at www.siliconrepublic.com.

“We are on the verge of mobile application explosion,” Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg.com, tells siliconrepublic.com, and he credits devices like the iPhone for bringing a “true, full-featured computing experience to a small handheld device”.

Rose’s site www.digg.com was one of the first to create an iPhone-friendly version but he says that though mobile devices are the next big trend it is the internet that is driving changes in how people are accessing information with innovations like search, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), blogs and social networking as major catalysts.

“The tollbooths of information are being torn down: the cost of creating and distributing content is now so low that anyone can produce content and blast it out to the world.

“And you can access just about any type of content anywhere, so content is abundant and accessible.”

He says that the challenge now is sifting through the overwhelming amount of content we come across on a daily basis to find what is most interesting and relevant.

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Posted Thursday by Phil Manchester

Like it or not, Google has achieved something that none of the established knitting circles has managed so far; it has created a single target platform for developers to aim for. One early view of how you can build Android applications [link] illustrates this.

But a unified standard does not necessarily play well with the established mobile Linux players. The LiPS Forum [link] , for example, says it “regards OHA as complementary” and acknowledges [link] that Android and the OHA have confirmed the popularity of Linux in mobile and embedded applications. LiPS also says that Android shares in its mission “to reduce fragmentation among Linux-based mobile platforms” - only with a different approach. While LiPS aims to unify the development of mobile Linux through open standards, it sees the Android and OHA team as working to the same end with shared code.

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Andy Rubin, director of mobile platforms at Google, talked to CNET News.com about Android:

Q: What does Android look like?

A: Google has stepped up on behalf of the alliance to do various components of the support from a developer community perspective. We have a user interface team continuing development on the UI, and there will actually be a replacement UI.

We’ve been building it as a mobile mashup platform. That is a new concept for [mobile] phones. So the developer can now stand on the system platform and take advantage of other developers’ work for the first time. So, that just creates more flexibility for the developers, less work, faster turnaround, rapid prototyping, and all that stuff, and we’re really, really excited about that concept.

Q: Is there a prototype dubbed Dream? Who has it, and when are we going to see it?

A: I actually don’t know where that name come from. That’s been an internal code-name that’s been kicked around here, but it changes quite constantly.

We have manufacturing partners in the alliance, and they’re building products, and Google has been given some of those devices. As part of the SDK, there’s a complete hardware emulator that runs on the PC. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. It’s literally a hardware emulator of various devices — you know, different screen formats: horizontal, landscape, or portrait and, with the Qwerty keyboard and without a Qwerty keyboard; with touch, without touch.

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