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On 23 Sep 2009, at 10:25, Paul Boag wrote: > > I came across this article: http://www.macworld.co.uk/education/news/index.cfm?newsid=27231 > that talks about how the University of Central Lancashire have > produced an iPhone application for their freshers. I thought this was > a superb idea and wondered if anybody else has looked into it. > There are quite a few similar initiatives; apart from our work at Oxford on the JISC project Erewhon (http://erewhon.oucs.ox.ac.uk/), I know that Birmingham City University, Sheffield University and Bristol University are in the starting gate. I suspect there are others. There is a dedicated a commercial offering from http://www.ombiel.com/, which I have not seen yet. Stanford have had one for a while. > We are just about to build our first iPhone app and it actually > doesn't look too complicated. Has anybody else tried and what was your > experience like? for what its worth, we opted for a web-based solution instead, ie a mobile portal (also the approach taken by MIT). We really don't want to lose the Blackberry and Windows Mobile users, let alone the Androids. Nice as it is, the iPhone app approach is a bit discriminatory; and there isn't _that_ much you can do there which you can't also do with a web app. -- Sebastian Rahtz Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 Sólo le pido a Dios que el futuro no me sea indiferente