Now that teched has come and gone, I thought I would use this opportunity to do a little post-mortem on The Krewe app. It is one thing to test the app at home. It is a completely different animal to see how it responds in the environment TechEd creates. At a future time, I will list all the things that I would like to change with the app. At this point, I will find some good way to get community feedback. I want to break all this down screen by screen. We'll start with the screen I got right. The ......
I recently published version 2.0 of The Krewe Windows Phone app. The app is meant to facilitate social interactions at conferences, primarily TechEd North America. Version 1 of the app, published for last year, was primarily meant as a consumption app. We provided a list of events, a view of a Twitter feed, and the ability to view where other users are located. The location view used a "checkin" mechanism, similar to FourSquare, where people could check into a location. The location would then display ......