My friends at the Association for Competitive Technology asked me to submit comments to the FTC about some proposed changes to COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, specifically as they relate to apps. There's a good story on the subject on Ars Technica, and here's a link to the FTC comment page.

My own comments are below.

Today I spoke at 360iDev in Austin about work that I'd been doing to evaluate and build some different ways to create APIs and data services for iOS apps.  As an experiment, I put my presentation materials in EPUB form and presented with iBooks and an Elmo document camera.

Here's a link to my EPUB. To read it on your iPad or iPhone, add it with iTunes.

Get Ahead In The Clouds! (EPUB)  

Contents:

1. APIs 101
2. Google App Engine
3. Building APIs with MongoDB
4. APIs for Objective-C Geeks
5. If that's not easy enough, One More Thing (StackMob)

Over the past year, I've been working with ZipRealty to help them create the ZipRealty Real Estate App for iPhone and iPad.

I'll be speaking at 360iDev in Austin this November: Get Your Head in the Clouds: Tools and Resources for Building Great Networked Apps.

Yesterday I released a new iPhone app into the App Store. It’s a local guide to Los Altos, California, the town where I live, and a bit more: with a few simple discussion and sharing features, Townie is an app for community.