Great article on the "Mobilegeddon": Search me: Google's 'Mobilegeddon' is good news. Google has a great blog post on it as well.

13 essential programming tools for the mobile Web

http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/13-essential-programming-tools-the-mobile-web-246

Build for Android or iOS? There's no need to choose

http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/build-android-or-ios-theres-no-need-choose-252

7 Web UI mistakes to avoid for smartphones and tablets

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/7-web-ui-mistakes-avoid-smartphones-and-tablets-128

Architecting your application for multiple devices

http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/march2011/articles/article5/index.html

5 simple rules for creating mobile-savvy websites

It's not hard to give smartphone and tablet users compelling access to your sites -- so get started: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/5-simple-rules-creating-mobile-savvy-websites-683

jQuery Mobile: Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets

"A unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design."

Escape the App Store: 4 ways to create smartphone Web apps

A very nice article on the merits and drawbacks of building HTML apps for handhelds. An excerpt:

It doesn't matter why you want to develop mobile apps. The problem is that following through is still pretty tricky. The iPhone and iPad want code written in Objective-C, and that language remains a bit obscure. Plus, once you're done coding, there's a distinct possibility that Apple will slam the door to the App Store right in your face for some unknowable reason.

U.S. Mobile Data Traffic to Top 1 Exabyte

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/07/in-2010-us-mobile-data-traffic-to-top-1-exabyte/

How to make your website mobile today

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/how-make-your-website-mobile-today-833

W3C cheatsheet

A nice cheatsheet from the good people at W3C on developing for mobile, accessibility, i18n, and typography.

baseJS: A Mobile JavaScript Framework

http://paularmstrongdesigns.com/weblog/basejs-a-mobile-javascript-framework/

Summit: Mobile computing is education’s future

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/06/21/summit-mobile-computing-is-educations-future/

"Keynote speaker Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of Qualcomm Inc., pointed to a successful initiative in North Carolina, called Project K-Nect, that uses mobile phones to help teach algebra as an example of how mobile technology can empower learning.

"At-risk ninth graders taking part in the project have access to specially created mobile applications that help explain algebraic principles, and they also can watch videos of other students explaining these principles. In addition, they can text or IM their peers for advice when they get stuck.

"According to early studies of the program’s efficacy, students taking part in this Qualcomm-funded project outscored their peers who did not have access to the mobile phones and content by an average of 30 percent in algebra proficiency."

Possible escapes from the mobile SDKs' clutches

http://www.infoworld.com/t/development-frameworks/possible-escapes-the-mobile-sdks-clutches-763

Sencha – HTML 5 Mobile Application Framework

http://www.webappers.com/2010/06/23/sencha-html-5-mobile-application-framework/

Latest Web Design Trends — Afresh Inspiration From the Print

http://www.webappers.com/2010/06/22/latest-web-design-trends-%e2%80%94-afresh-inspiration-from-the-print/

Mobile Internet Users are Getting More Important

http://www.stoimen.com/blog/2010/03/18/mobile-internet-users-are-getting-more-important/

5 Can’t-Miss Usability Tips for Mobile Website Designs

http://interactiveonline.com/web-design/5-cant-miss-usability-tips-for-mobile-website-designs

Web sites that do mobile right

http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/web-sites-do-mobile-right-907

Emerging Technologies Conference at UNC?

Hi, all. How do you feel about having an "Emerging Technologies" conference at UNC? Please post comments here and vote on the poll on the left. Some topics to get us started in the discussion include,

• Rich Internet App tools/tech (AJAX, Flex, Curl, JavaFX, JBoss Seam)
• Cloud computing (providing technology-enabled services over the Internet -- "in the cloud")
  
• Mobile devices: Web access, development, etc.
  
• Web 2.0 (social networking sites, blogs, wikis) -- though many of these are already established tech and not so much "emerging" anymore
• Semantic search technology

Who would we contact to have such a conference? Are there companies and organizations that can help?