Overview: The APPNATION conference and exposition will mash-up a dynamic and diverse group of app developers and professionals from the worlds of media and entertainment, telecommunications, advertising, venture capital and finance, technology and infrastructure, as well as leading industry press and analysts.

We offer a limited number of exclusive sponsorship and exhibit opportunities for companies and developers of all sizes within a unique, cutting-edge conference and exhibit environment.

Ticket Information: See Website

Venue: Moscone convention Center, San Francisco, CA

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Overview: Join developers, researchers, practitioners and others who share, analyze and enjoy the benefits of social software and social media.

Keynote speakers including Stowe Boyd, Dan Gillmor and Don Thibeau will share insights and discuss future developments.

There will also be a one-day workshop on microblogging as part of the event.

Ticket Information: See Website

Venue: Galway, Ireland

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Overview: Social news, social games, social discovery, social search, and other social solutions are charging developers with building instantly scalable products. As new technologies continue to emerge to address these challenges, it’s increasingly important to come together as a community to share knowledge and make new connections.

The first Social Developer Summit, produced by mediabistro.com and All Facebook founder Nick O’Neill, will unite social app developers to discuss solutions and best practices for building applications in the rapidly expanding social web economy. Meet your peers, and learn from industry experts who will share tips and case studies for building high performance social web products.

Ticket Information: $25-$400

Venue: Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

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Many music apps already popular on iPhone have been ported to iPad, taking advantage of its superior hardware. The iPad’s larger touch screen is nothing but a blessing in this usage scenario, and there are already a good number of new apps being released: Seeing them in action will help even the fiercest iPad skeptic admit that Apple’s tablet can be used to create media, and sometimes it can be even an ideal solution.

Rana Sobhany made an impression at iPadDevCamp last month and got interviewed by Robert Scoble. Using two iPads as DJ setup is a brilliant solution, but you can also achieve amazing results just by using an iPad as a midi keyboard with custom Touch OSC (Open Sound Protocol) templates, as Ecken shows in the video below.

When MTV Iggy caught Indian maestro A. R. Rahman with eight iPads, I couldn’t help but think of him as an incarnation of Kali, the Hindu goddess of time and change, representing the creative and destructive aspects of nature. Actually Rahman bought the seven extra iPads for his friends, and seems to be very entertained by playing with Bebot and Proremote.

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Websites on the iPad look good, especially considering the web browsing experience on devices with smaller screens like the iPod Touch and the iPhone, but the touch screen interface causes a different class of problems: Read-tap asymmetry. Unless a site is designed with the iPad in mind, the text is big enough to read, but too small to touch. Inline links and navigational menus often offer small targets that make web browsing uncomfortable.

On the other hand, Apple’s conceptual model for the iPad UI design is based on the absence of hardware buttons, cursors, visual cues and standard navigation support that ensure immersiveness and elegance at the expense of usability. Poor interface areas discoverability is the result: Often users don’t perceive the possible actions that can be performed on an app, and interface design consistency is hard to be found.

In fact apps can differ a lot in this sense, for instance touching a picture in different apps can produce so many unpredictable effects that it’s virtually impossible to transfer skills from one app to the next. When you touch a picture and expect to navigate to another page and nothing happens, or instead of getting an enlarged version of the picture, a picture gallery opens, or a navigation menu pops up, the sense of immersiveness is broken as you don’t know what behavior to expect from the app.

Simple gestures used to continue reading an article on magazine apps can lead to different outcomes, navigating out of the “page” opening another article, actually scrolling down the text or producing no effect at all. Accidental activation of other features can occur when users touch active areas by mistake.

NN/g’s study is a must read for iPad app developers. Only through the establishment of user interface design standards, Apple can provide the immediacy and immersiveness of user experience that make the iPad magical.

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