A Delightful Resource - Free Audiobooks

I stumbled upon this resource today. In my quest for interesting content delivered to, played on, and optimized for the iPhone, I consulted my favorite oracle - Google. Via said oracle, I found openculture.com. There are many links to differing libraries that can download iTunes files directly, and can also deliver up .mp3s to be heard on computers and non-Apple devices. While I am still truly delighted by the iPhone, particularly the power of this "small screen" computer and its power to modify the way we (and software) interact, I acknowledge that there are many, many devices out there. If you are interested in audio books for the road, or for background brain-food, check them out.

So take a look at the eBooks and other resources on Open Culture. My applauds to the folks contributing to it.

iPhone App Creation - Plus Mashup Land

I'm working on a small skunkworks project that brings in elements of iPhone app development, Mashups from social networks, Google's OpenSocial API, and interesting black box calcs. Interesting challenges flow the gamut, from UX interaction architecture diagrams, to database schema work, to API access code, to output targetting (taking the user where they desire to ultimately go) - all while trying to maintain and respect the minimalist approach of Web 2.0 development. Fun, challenging, but quite rewarding thus far.