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Social media Cafe iPhone app Social media Cafe Liverpool now has an official iPhone app.

Liverpool iPhone app developer John McKerrell has developed an iPhone app for Social Media Cafe Liverpool so that the content generated at the talks can be shared freely with you.

The pre app launch took place at Social Media Cafe Liverpool on the 10th February at the Arts and Design Academy, Duckinfield Street as part of John's presnetation on iPhone app development. The app was developed to help John with his presentation and as he describes it, it's a really basic app for finding out about the talks that have happened at Social Media Cafe. It provides links to the slides where possible as well as information and links to the speakers themselves.

mzl.gecvpgum.320x480-75 John McKerrell said "I have made the app available as Open Source Software under the Artistic License 2.0. What this means is that anyone can go away and create apps based on my code. The main requirement is that if you do so then you can’t modify the source code to hide the fact that I was the original creator, but read the license for confirmation on the details."

Your editor and Social media Cafe organiser said "A basic app it maybe according to John's decription but for me this is fantastic news. What I like the most is that the code is there available for people to use, to adpate to create there own. Not being scared about how you create these things is important as it takes the magic out of it, which we really need to do with technology - demystifying it. I'd even consider getting an iPhone just so I can use it."

You can read more about John McKerrell and his development of the Social Media Cafe Liverpool iPhone app on his blog - Blog What I Made

Nearly forgot to add you can downlaod the app from here - iTunes store

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