While Evan Priestley says his greatest accomplishment is launching photo faxing to TechCrunch in 2009, many in the startup community hold that it’s Phabricator – a set of open source developer applications that Priestley and others built while inside Facebook and that he intended to take on as a hobby while he looked for something else to do, after leaving the social network earlier this year. Instead the coding workflow tool took off.

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The challenge for mobile application developers is being able to make their apps available for a multitude of platforms, each of which have different development environments that require writing separate applications. A small developer may have to choose to only write their app for only one platform because that is all they can afford to support, or at the very least pick one first and then develop for other platforms later. PhoneGap is a HTML5 app platform that allows developers to write apps [...]

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South African mobile social networking platform Motribe launched about a year ago but already it has more than 1.5 million users. Founded by Nic Haralambous and Vincent Maher, the platform is like Ning for mobile and aims to empower brands to set up mobile web communities. In regions such as Africa, South East Asia and South America where the mobile web is a big part of how people interact with the Internet, sites like Motribe are bound to thrive. We caught up with platform's co-founders to lear [...]

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Evernote is the app that I use the most on my smartphones and tablets. If you are a long time reader of this blog, you know that I have written numerous posts about this wonderful notetaking app. What makes Evernote so useful for me is that it stores all my information in the cloud, and I can access my information from any mobile device. Two recent changes to Evernote, note linking and rich text support, have made it even more valuable.


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