I’m a huge fan of David Heinemeier Hansson and 37signals, he was recently at Stanford’s Entrepreneur Thought Leaders Seminar Series doing a talk called “Unlearning Your MBA”. There’s a load of wisdom for entrepreneurs and it’s also very entertaining.

Here’s some links I still have laying around in my RSS reader I still need to get to, hopefully you may find some of them useful.

Development

5-Minute CSS Mobile Makeover from Perishable Press

I’m hoping there is some general WebKit info in Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by Jonathan Stark

General Mobile Information

Haven’t had a chance to read Developing Games for Android from Gamasutra, looks like some good information about the business side of game development on the Android platform.

Justin Pratt does an awesome job breaking down the numbers in his article Earning a Living as an Independent Mobile Software Developer

Core Values: The silicon Behind Android from Engadget

Bonus

OK, not about mobile development specifically, but it’s easy to get discouraged during development…

How to Defeat Burnout and Stay Motivated  from Zen Habits

Marco Arment has a great post on his blog  about the two App Stores…no not the Apple and Android app store.  But the two sides of the Apple App store and expectations that developers of mobile games and applications should have when positioning their apps.

He makes some great points about “one-hit wonder apps” vs sustained apps, lessons I believe can be utilized by developers in other “app” stores as well.

I know this is just fanciful dreaming, and this sort of thinking is one reason for the internet bubble in the late 90’s and burst in early 2000…but it’s fun anyway!

Given the following numbers

• According to Engadget the Android market share could hit 14% by 2012
• Current number of smart phones world wide is 235.6 million according to this article from Yahoo
• Android’s market share is currently less then 2% (according to the Engadget article)

I think I can safely make the following pessimistic calculation:

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Although Dan Grigsby speaks about iPhone development and the iPhone app store there is a ton of advice which easily carries over to the Android platform as well.  I plan on implementing many of his suggestions into both MediaDroid and Note To Me and the ways I go about promoting them.