Erwan Macé – Passionate Geek

Before the recent boom of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the only list of friends or contacts most people would manage and interact with was their address book. The hardcover indexed address books and the electronic databanks (remember those cool Casio devices with enough memory to store 128 contacts) are the true ancestors of your social graph. Read more to understand why I believe the address book is still very much the key to success of any social network today. Read more…

As most of you know, I run a small mobile development team (Bitsmedia) which has so far been focusing on the iOS platform (iPhone and iPad apps). One of our goal for 2011 is to diversify ourselves by offering development services for other platforms as well. If Android is the obvious new platform after which we are going, the January Blackberry developer conference was the perfect opportunity for me to evaluate the real opportunities and challenges of developing apps for the Blackberry platforms (the smartphones AND the Playbook).

The Blackberry DevconAsia (developer conference Asia) has now been over for a few weeks and I wanted to share with you why it’s left me with a very mitigated impression. Make sure to read more after the break… Read more…