follow my feed workshop
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Slides presented at Follow My Feed Workshops. FollowMyFeed.net is a web app that makes it easy to create Windows Phone 7 applications with no coding required!TRANSCRIPT
Getting Started in the Mobile Marketplace
Ed Donahue Academic Developer Evangelist [email protected] creepyed.com | @creepyed
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Ed Donahue Salsa dancer
Light jogger
Casual cyclist
Swimmer
Triathlete (for those
counting)
Computer science major
Lover of monospaced
fonts
Supporter of women
in tech
Microsoft Academic
Developer Evangelist
[email protected] | www.creepyed.com | @creepyed
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Agenda
DreamSpark App Hub FollowMyFeed Upload PRIZES!
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Goals
Get comfortable in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Create your own FollowMyFeed app and publish it to the Marketplace
Give stuff away
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Let’s get started!
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Pro Tips
Use a hotmail.com or live.com email address for your LiveID
If you can’t see a school list, try using Internet Explorer
When you sign up for App Hub, use the SAME LiveID you used for your DreamSpark account
DreamSpark (dreamspark.com)
App Hub (create.msdn.com)
FollowMyFeed (followmyfeed.net)
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FollowMyFeed Walk Through
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FollowMyFeed Tips Get the lab: bit.ly/followmyfeedlab
Find RSS feeds by searching the site for “RSS”
Want a Twitter RSS?
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USERID.atom
Use www.idfromuser.com to find Twitter user ID
Want to make multiple RSS feeds into one?
http://rssmix.com ( I use this one)
Images:
Check out creepyed.com Windows Phone
Use your own or
Find Creative Commons images (Flickr, anyone?)
Use the Windows Phone Icon Maker: http://wpiconmaker.codeplex.com
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Contests!
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Idea of the Week
Submit your great app idea for a chance to win $50!
Create a Sketchflow prototype and post it online (wp7sketchflow.codeplex.com/)
Tweet the URL with #WPAppItUp
Judged on Innovation, Experience and Potential
Rules: bit.ly/idearules
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Your App Here
Be a featured app in December, January or February!
Win a digital ad campaign that will deliver one million ad impressions!
Receive featured placement on the Windows Phone Marketplace
More info: wpyourapphere.com
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What’s next?
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Resources
Get these slides: slideshare.net/creepyed
Download today’s lab: bit.ly/followmyfeedlab Get the Windows Phone 7 SDK and development tools:
bit.ly/edwp7sdk Just getting started with Windows Phone 7? Check out
these resources: bit.ly/edwp7begresource