I’ve been getting back into working on iPhone stuff again recently, and I was encouraged to see CiUI by Vladimir Olexa. (I completely missed this demo at MashupCamp)

I’d used Joe Hewitt’s iUI for a previous iPhone webapp, and it works great, but I’m looking to try something new this time and CiUI looks great.

CiUI has a different approach to some things from iUi:

1. AJAX calls are performed after a page slides
2. DOM doesn’t get overloaded with “pages” as they load. Instead, two DIVs are constantly being reused
3. Page titles are set on the source page, not on the destination page
4. Only specified “a” tags are assumed a part of the UI

Some interesting events over the next few months that I’m looking forward to.

March 26 WhereWednesday – Social Networking and Location (San Francisco)

April 2 SV-GTUG Mapping the Votes: Building Election Maps (Mountain View)

April 22-25 Web 2.0 (San Francisco)

May 12-14 Where 2.0 (Burlingame, CA)

May 17-18th WhereCamp (Mountain View, CA)

Not much time, but here are some pics from MashupCamp.

Unconference Agenda

GeoJSON Session

Mobile Mashups

Yikes, my life has been crazy this past month, but I’ve got more time to work on Metosphere again.

I’d been holding off on adding a lot of features after seeing the changes from the M3 to M5 Android SDK, but I’ve decided now’s the time to crank and flesh out this Android app so it’s more than just a proof-of-concept.

So I upgraded the Metosphere app to M5, which was trickier than I expected. While I was making changes, I also incorporated Wikipedia points of interest through the cool GeoNames Web Service.

The idea is that you’ve got your GPS-enabled Android phone and using Metosphere you can see what Wikipedia pages are near your location.

You can download the newest version here.

I also modified the demo web mashup to display the concept of nearby Wikipedia points.

Damn, it’s late! I’ve got to get up early for Mashup Camp.