Direct Marketing & Digital Marketing Agency - Ashley Bolser Agency

Myself and Rich made a trip down to London last week for the Open Mobile Summit. 2 days of keynotes and panel discussions covering all aspects of mobile technology, from carriers to handset manufacturers, and app developers to content providers.

We were there primarily as ambassadors for Nokia who had their own ‘Nokia Lounge’ area for us to showcase some of the apps we’ve been developing for their phones. We seemed to generate a lot of interest, particularly for our forthcoming app ‘PriceGenie’ - a barcode scanning, price comparison tool which has been developed specifically for the N900 using Nokia’s latest technology: ‘Nokia QT’.

When we weren’t demoing apps to people and comparing notes with other developers (and praying the WiFi connection held up) – we tried to get to as many of the presentations as possible – some highlights being a talk from Richard Windsor (Sr. Analyst, Nomura Securities) on open mobile ecosystems and another on mobile experience from Mark Rolston (CEO, frog design).

Nokia Lounge - Open Mobile Summit 2010, London

A couple of us went over to the Leeds GeekUp meet last night at Old Broadcasting House for a presentation on javascript accessibility by Dirk Ginader from Yahoo. Some interesting points raised, especially important to the future development of the web and how people interact with sites. The main focus was on making sites that can easily be read and understood by screen readers using new technology that will also be along in HTML 5. The underlying message though was that accessible javascript should always be used to enhance accessible HTML and properly formatted CSS.