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You can start developing with Android Mobile OS and Android Mobile Apps by using Eclipse or Eclipse Pulsar (Eclipse for MobileDev) together with  the Android Development Tools (ADT).

And here are some tutorials to help you get started:

• http://www.vogella.de/articles/Android/article.html#installation_eclipse
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-eclipse-android.html
  

Even though Chrome OS was only released a few weeks ago you can already build or download pre-built Chrome OS Virtual Machines for VirtualBox and VMware !

Yahoo! YAP
The Yahoo! Application Platform allows you to reach our users and improve the Yahoo! user experience by building and deploying new experiences for them into Yahoo! pages, writing code the way you love to write it. We're looking to you to help us build the next big thing on Yahoo!, and in turn we'll shower you with traffic and users.

See also:

• http://github.com/yahoo/
• http://github.com/yahoo/yos-social-php
• http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/guide/index.html
  
• http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html
• https://developer.apps.yahoo.com/devtool/projects
• http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
  

And if you are a web developer based in the UK why not enter the Yahoo! Yap Hack Competition for a chance for your app to get advertised to 330M Yahoo! users !

At last nights Eclipse Demo Camp London the European Director of Eclipse Foundation inc, Ralph Mueller, did a great presentation on why Eclipse is different to other open source projects such as Apache or MySql !

It turns out that Eclipse is actually an Ecosystem !

If you weren't there last night then you might like to go to Eclipse Demo Camp Hamburg next month !

See also

• http://live.eclipse.org/
• http://eclipse-ecosystem.blogspot.com/
• EclipseCon 2010
  

Sun have created a Sun Wiki / Business Media Network with over 20,000 members.

However it seems to be a closed community so you may need to create a Sun Online Account before you can see any content or my profile !

Open Source Android mobile phone application development:

• developer.android.com
• developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html
• source.android.com/download
• source.android.com/download/using-repo

or if you'd prefer one platform for developing both iPhone and Android apps then you could try the

• Titanium Mobile Framework

which shares common APIs across devices and provides extensibility for each device’s unique capabilities.

I have just found some mobile augmented reality apps for Android and iPhone mobiles.

• http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/recoverygov-contracts-your-phone/
• http://www.getlocationscout.com/

which are based on the

• layar
• wikitude

augmented reality API's !

IBM suggest you can put a tiny cloud in your Android handset and experience the usefulness of a local Web server!

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-tinycloud/index.html

SkillsMatter are sponsoring both DroidCamp and DroidConf on 1 Dec 09 and 2 Dec 09 !

DroidCamp

MON
http://www.meetup.com/android/calendar/11842399/
http://barcamp.org/droidcon

TUE
http://www.meetup.com/android/calendar/11842399/
http://www.droidcon.co.uk/

First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!

The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.

TypePad Micro

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A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.

Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.

And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!

~ daisy