iPhone App for @HDSAcademy (@HDSCorp)

A colleague showed me this app in Oslo week-before-last:

Course finder
for iPhone has
Arrived!

	Find course offerings worldwide
	Locate training centers by GPS
	Daily course releases
	Convenient access to the Learning Center

Neat! Just a couple of suggestions:

1. Make a Blackberry version! Given my bias towards Android, you'd think I'd be pushing that platform first, but we're talking about an app you want storage geeks to use. The majority of them (and that includes HDS' own GSS personnel) don't use either platform. They use Blackberry.

Know how you tell a techie who's a freelancer from a techie who's got a corp job in a pub in Silicon Valley? The corp guy has TWO smartphones, one of which is his company-issued Blackberry. Most of these folks can't be bothered carrying/charging/using two phones, so they've come to accept the Blackbery as their platform. Tablets are changing this dynamic, but slowly.

2. Use a QR code in app announcements. For example, this code should've been in the e-mail I received and the accompanying web page:

Why is this important? because the guy you want to download the app is reading the email on his Blackberry. Don't make him type the URL back in or do a search in iTunes Store-send him straight to your page.

That said, the app is pretty cool. Of course, if any of you have questions about which classes are right for you, feel free to drop me a line, I'll gladly offer suggestions.