So I had an idea the other day… It would be awesome as both an audience member, as well as a performing musician to be able to have people in the audience give feedback on which songs they liked, what part of the song they liked, and more. This would be valuable for users to see what others in the crowd thought and would be valuable to musicians and venue owners to be able to improve and adapt their performances.
What do you think?
We’ve posted up version 0.9 of our Java REST Client library on GitHub. It has implementations for OAuth (using Signpost), Java.net and AppEngine’s URLFetch. We’ve been using this internally for a while, but wanted to share it for the common good. Let us know if you use this or have any questions!
We created TimeTap NFC for Harvest for the Isobar Create 48 Hackathon back in September but have not had a chance to get our hands on an NFC enabled phone again until now. We had an error reported that when tags were scanned, they were not launching TimeTap. This didn’t make sense because nothing had changed in our codebase since the hackathon.
David Yashar of SoftAid let us borrow an Android 2.3.7 (Nexus S 4G Sprint) phone for the week to work on TimeTap until the Galaxy Nexus comes out on Verizon. After 2 days of digging through forums and trying random combinations of things we just found this issue on Google for Android: Post 2.3.6 update NFC P2P Intent-filter not matching. Ahah! It wasn’t us! It was Android not following the spec and then changing that in 2.3.6 and up. The version of Android we had at the hackathon was 2.3.3, so now it all makes sense.
Hope this helps someone out who is trying to figure out why their NFC app is not launching from their tags in Android!
The code snippit that made the difference. It prepends an extra 0x00 byte to the payload.
Thank goodness! Can’t wait to get my hands on this phone!
(via devnfc)
Source: nfcrumors
NFC Delivers Mobile Retail Marketing had a huge crowd. More than 400 people RSVPed, making this a big event. Luckily they had a really big venue which could hold everyone.
My favorite panelist was Patrick Gauthier from PayPal (Head of Retail Services Product Marketing and Business Operations). He had tons of charisma and really led the conversation. The overall result of the night was the understanding that paying with NFC vs. paying with a credit card really isn’t all that exciting/different. NFC will work in that case, but that will not be the “game changing” use case. It will come from the entrepreneurs that can leverage the new technologies in innovative ways.
Also, they did play the NFC Hackathon video I was in, so that made me happy!
Handstand Technologies was represented by our very own Sam Edwards at Isobar’s Create 48 Hackathon by creating TimeTap NFC for Harvest, an Android App for Time Tracking with Harvest. TimeTap is a new interface for tracking time with Harvest and has the ability to use NFC (Near Field Communication) technology to make time tracking less arduous. This is a great video which shows a lot of great ideas for the use of NFC.
