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TV apps: A dive into fragmentation — from appmarket.tv by
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Suppose you wanted to build an app for TV, where would you start? Admittedly, there is an enormous number of variables to consider for an app developer on where they might start the journey, even before that journey starts. These include areas like skill sets, funding, previous development, and relationships. This article is the first in a series that aims to shed some light on the current state of TV app development, as well as the exciting ecosystem that is forming around the connected TV. If you’ve identified an opportunity where developing a TV app makes sense, read on!
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At this point, suppose you want to cover the market and develop for all devices and middleware platforms. That’s at least 72 middleware/OS, 122 devices, and 3 screen resolutions, which equates to managing over 26,352 experiences. A little overwhelming, right? Luckily, the picture isn’t quite this grim and in practice, no developer has gone to these lengths (we hope!). The next article in this series will go into how some of this fragmentation is being dealt with and some best practices that we’ve discovered along the way.
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Making news: How software is disrupting media — from fastcolabs.com by Gabe Stein
Get out from under your rock and take notice; the news industry is in big trouble! The Internet is killing journalism. Craigslist is stealing all the classified ads. Digital ad revenues stink. Yet journalists are still working, getting paid, and breaking important stories. Here’s what you need to know to survive and thrive as a techno-savvy journalist!
Want to catch up on other news about
the convergence of technology and journalism?
This is an ongoing story we’re tracking;
read on for context…
The tech industry’s massive marketing problem — from readwrite.com by Matt Asay
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The US has a skilled developer shortage, and it’s one of its own making. While Silicon Valley wrings its hands over H1B visa caps on skilled foreign workers, the bigger issue remains the U.S.’ inability to educate its own citizens. Actually, it may be worse than this: while we may educate a surplus of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students for traditional STEM roles, we seem to fail to entice enough of them to get into technology.
Which is bizarre, if we stop to think about this for even a nanosecond.
Comments/reflections on this from DSC:
I think that the shock waves are still being felt from the decades’ worth of how the corporate world handled IT-related personnel and projects — that and the Dot Com crash.
A member from our CS department mentioned a while back that many of the high school career counselors were encouraging students not to go into a technology-related field such as programming. I think they were basing such a perspective on how quickly the tech-related projects and personnel were dropped when the economy started heading south.
Another tough thing about the tech-side of the house…
With the pace of technological change, choosing which technologies to invest one’s time in is very difficult. One can easily choose an incorrect path or a product line or a programming language that didn’t turn out to be the one in demand.
How the internet is making us poor — from qz.com by Christopher Mims
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Everyone knows the story of how robots replaced humans on the factory floor. But in the broader sweep of automation versus labor, a trend with far greater significance for the middle class—in rich countries, at any rate—has been relatively overlooked: the replacement of knowledge workers with software.
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So…what courses aren’t we teaching in K-12 and in higher ed that we need to be teaching to help our students get prepared for this quickly-changing situation in the workplace? Now? In the near future?
What’s some good career advice (or resources) out there?
Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind is one resource that comes to mind.
Desktop PCs less popular than ever — from Scott Martin and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY — with thanks to Mr. Rick DeVries at Calvin College for this resource
3 demos available now from socraticarts.com — per Roger Schank (@rogerschank)
Excerpt from SEO module:
How is this course different than most university courses?
This course differs from a typical university course in many ways. It is based on a story-centered, learn-by-doing approach, rather than lectures and exams. The context in which you work is not a classroom but a job, with task assignments similar to those done by professionals in the real world. Unlike the real world, we are here to help you as you move through the scenario.
- Our support resources, which include books and links, have been carefully selected to be directly relevant to the tasks you need to accomplish. They are appropriate for beginners, and aligned with the current professional standards of best practice.
- Our mentors will give you detailed, informative critiques of your solutions, pointing out how your solutions can be dramatically improved.
The net result of the above is that if you successfully complete this course, you will achieve not just basic understanding of key concepts, but actual mastery of the skills needed in the real world.
Most popular programming languages of 2013 — from CodeEval.com with thanks to brian k (@iEducator) for posting this on twitter
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The new basis of competition and the superiority of ecosystem economics — from visionmobile.com by Michael Vakulenko
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The changing landscape of app discovery — from visionmobile.com by Andreas Pappas
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Infographic from Collegestats.org
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With thanks to Mr. Muhammad Saleem for the resource.
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