MS currently has 21 apps on Google Play, incl. Wordament!

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Wordament, my favorite word game, is available as an Android app.



Wordament is an addictive MMOWPG or Massively Multiplayer Online Word Playing Game built by 2 Microsoft-ies using the Google App Engine.



I found it funny that the Content Rating for this app is Low Maturity

Microsoft currently has 21 apps on Google Play. Among them, SkyDrive, Bing & Lync 2013 apps are highly rated.

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The World Citizen News mash-up

Our latest app, World Citizen News gets you:

• the Twitter buzz
• weather forecast, local time & map for popular cities around the world
• images of selected location from flickr
• news based on the trending Twitter topics

It makes use of the following APIs:

• Twitter Trends
• flickr
• World Weather Online for the local time
• MapQuest 
• Yahoo Weather via YQL
• Google News

Whether you're a world citizen or a geography buff, try the World Citizen News mash-up to see what's happening around the world.

The following links explain how different features of the mash-up were built:

• Weather information for a place based on its WOEID using YQL & jQuery
• Finding the latitude, longitude of a location based on WOEID
• Local time for a location based on its latitude and longitude
• Display book titles in Amazon ads dynamically based on context or custom keywords

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Free APIs for HTML5 Geolocation apps, mashups

HTML5 Geolocation is now supported by newer versions of all popular browsers. Explore these free APIs to build geo-location apps & mashups -

• Twitter 
• Google Maps 
• Bing Maps 
• GeoNames (HTTPS calls supported only for premium customers)
• OpenStreetMap 
• Foursquare 
• Data.gov 
• Data.gov.uk 
• Data.gov.in
• Wunderground Weather API (supports HTTP & HTTPS calls)
• Flickr (supports HTTP & HTTPS calls)

work in progress...

Also see:

There is an app for that?

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There is an app for that?

All these days I've been thinking of writing a location-aware app that would tell me about interesting sights & news-worthy facts about places that fall in the way of a train journey.

It turns out @codepo8 already has a sample app on something similar WITH source that I can adapt.

There are also a host of other demos of the Geolocation API, with source, on the Mozilla Demo Studio site.

Related links:
12 Cool HTML5 Geolocation Ideas
MSDN: How to Create a Location-Aware Webpage

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