Right now I’m really enjoying AudioBoo.fm, the iPhone blogging app. It’s a project spawned out of the 4iP fund which allows it’s users to leave a short audio commentry about whatever they want.

Check my latest boo out here. They’re not always Thought Den material, however at minimum it’ll be mostly be rather un-insightful social/technological commentary.

Also, if you’re looking for a post made about young iPhone users (iPhones for toddlers), read it on the PM Studio blog.

Our MySpace app is starting to be social!

It now publishes application activity to the MySpace Friends Feed. For those unfamiliar with the FF, it’s where your friends can keep up to date with all the interesting things you’ve been playing. It’s a great way for your app to gain a bit more traction in the Market place and for others to find it (see below).

Admittedly however, we’re not building an app to pass around cute kittens like our recent NOAH project for the pet factor. Because soon the whole of MySpace will telling their friends about their arguments with aMap!

As the bloggers, tweeters, compulsive status-updaters, cyber-geeks and games fans return from the recent SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, the Guardian’s tech writers are already drawing their conclusions. It seems the buzz this year is all about developing location-aware experiences, be they online, over mobile or using close proximity technologies like RFID. There are countless enterprises (BrightKite, Foursquare, Fire Eagle, Bliin, Gypsii etc) whose core offerings revolve around organising, sharing and distributing location-specific information, with an increasing trend to connect with existing social networks such as those on Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and LinkdIn.

This is all good news, considering the nature of the next Happy Packages release! We’re currently beavering away on our iPhone application which, funnily enough, revolves around location specific information, social network connectivity and even a little hint of gaming! Read the Happy Packages journal for updates, discussion, prototype launches etc

As an aside, Simon Games have been the talk of the festival with their Hat game, which was mentioned again by Alex Krotoski but in print this time – Thursday’s Technology Guardian. See Other articles here.

They’ve acctually done it, Google went ahead and released lively.com a 3D world to “create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design”.

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbwfOucET8[/youtube]

They packaged the whole product to explore the lands completely through your browser, no need for a separate client application, just download a package (windows only) and install it to run in Internet Explorer or Firefox! A full 3D world in your browser to go explore, to read more about the product check out Lively.com but now read to open up thoughts on the wider aspects of Lively.

Offshoots

The package initially makes me wonder what (more…)