At Say Yeah HQ we’ll be hosting a group chat Tuesday evening, Nov 4, from 5:00p to 7:00p for those Interested in mobile, apps, and user-centered design.

Please RSVP and share the word that you’ll be participating in @10kCoffees week.

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Moves is such a great app because it provides rich data about your day to day activities with almost no user input.

Not only is it running in the background, but based on some built-in app intelligence, it does a near 100% accurate job of determining whether you’re walking, running, cycling, or driving.

Led by just these two simple tasks (running in the background and tracking how you move) Moves is able to provide you with a daily snapshot of your activities that’s more rewarding than a step counter and doesn’t require any additional wearable. Cool beans!

Daanish Maan at Vanhawks, makers of the Valour smart bike, gets it. He just wants you to ride.

If we can teach the bike what it means to go on a ride it will know when to start and stop tracking your rides.

No start button required. Just ride and your trip is tracked. This is precisely the approach we take when we talk about making an app simple.

Simple is not about doing less for the end user, it’s about doing much, much more with all the heavy lifting happening behind the scenes, away from the user.

For us, if an app isn’t providing exponentially more value than the effort you put into using it, you’re asking too much of your users. Moves and Vanhawks are two amazing examples of planning and executing in a way that deliver remarkable value.

Kudos!

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Just in time for Valentine’s day, ChocoFinder has been updated with a whole new discovery interface, combining a map and list view of all the best chocolate shops around you, right on the home screen.

Now you can quickly see all the great shops around you and select the closest shops before jumping to each shop page to see all the great treats they have to offer.

If you’re still on the Valentine’s Day hunt for fair trade and artisanal chocolate for your special someone, get ChocoFinder from the app store now. It’s helpful, free, and delicious!

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Let us know your thoughts on Twitter @sayyeahto.

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“The web is just the long tail of apps that you haven’t installed yet…”

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All new OSX Mavericks is now available for free.

All new productivity apps Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are now free for desktop and iOS 7, including the real-time collaboration tools at icloud.com.

It’s a pretty good day for getting things done!

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I especially love this quote from Tim’s Google colleague, Eric Sachs:

If you’re typing a password into something, unless they have 100+ full-time engineers working on security and abuse and fraud, you should be nervous.

Read on for more from Tim Bray on hacking, software, and identity security.

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This has been a long time coming for Chris and the rest of the Unata team and we want to congratulate them on all the hard work that went into this launch.

Just over two years ago we were designing mockups for Unata which included Longo’s content and marketing as an aspirational goal. And now that goal has been realized. Amazing!

Available on Google Play and the App Store.

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Whether the convention centre has guaranteed wifi, or you’re relying on cellular service at an outdoor event, networks get saturated or have hiccups. Greeting your user with a screen like this completely undermines the effort of publishing an event app in the first place.

In other words, you need to offer an offline mode, or don’t bother. It’s a waste of everyone’s time when you force attendees to struggle with an internet connection when they’re trying to enjoy your event.

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