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Posted by Stefanie Olsen
For the last four months, Howard Chau has been developing a mobile application that’s designed to alert people to their next calendar appointment, factoring in data like the person’s physical location and traffic conditions en route to a meeting.
In the next two weeks, Chau plans to submit the GPS-based application, called Mappily, to Google in the hopes of winning its Android Developer Challenge, a developer contest with $10 million in total prize money. Because Chau only stands to win tens of thousands of dollars in the first round of the challenge, the money would just be gravy.
“It’s really a way to get seen,” said Chau, the 26-year-old president of Cupertino, Calif.-based Mappily, which employs three people.
Chau’s plight is part of Silicon Valley’s new contest within a contest to create the hottest new mobile technology.
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Posted by Susan Spencer
It’s funny how an Internet post can lead you down a whole new path. An out-of-state visitor on an online forum described a beautiful spot he discovered on a hiking trail along the West Reservoir in Harwich. He described where to park, roughly how far to walk down the Rail Trail before heading off on a side path and which way to follow the winding trail. At the targeted spot, there would be a small container holding a log book and trinkets hidden among the brush.
The forum poster was talking about geocaching. Geocaching is a worldwide treasure-hunt game in which small containers, called caches, are hidden and their navigational coordinates (that’s latitude and longitude) and a few other clues are posted online at geocaching.com. Other geocachers search for the caches by plugging the coordinates into their handheld GPS receiver and following the trail. Geocachers log their finds both in the cache and online, and if there are trinkets in the cache, they may trade one from the cache with one that they brought.
A new discovery shared by a colleague, Alex Reyes, that features Mac applications. These applications look very promising and interesting since it can create and edit photos and videos, make fantastic slideshows (amps it up!), builds interactive banners (like a flash pro!), and organizes videos (cool!).
Here are the various applications offered by Aquafadas:
When you get a moment, check it out!
