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On Thursday, May 27, Snaptic hosted its first Developer Conference. You can find the Flickr photo set embedded above.

120 mobile developers from around San Francisco gathered at Mighty to hear a fantastic lineup of speakers at Snaptic’s conference “by developers and for developers.” The topics ranged from practical tools and techniques to new ways of thinking for mobile developer entrepreneurs seeking to change the world.

We also announced the winners of the Move Your App! developer challenge. Here is the schedule:

Snaptic Welcome

• 11:00 Doors Open
• 11:15 Steve Brown & Andreas Schobel, “Welcome to Snaptic’s First Developer Conference and Move Your App! Developer Challenge”

Opening Your Mind

• 11:30 Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus and former CEO of MySQL, “Scaling and Succeeding with an Open-Source-Mind”
• 11:50 Cindy Alvarez of KISS Metrics, “Analytics: Getting to Paid”
• 12:05 LUNCH

Using Apps to Solve New Problems

• 1:15 Marko Gargenta, Marakana, “Deep Dive into Android Developement”
• 1:45 Clay Graham, ServiceTattler, “Our Experiment”
• 1:50 Zhao Lu, OrangeLabs, “Bringing User Presence To The Voice World”
• 2:00 BREAK

New Core Tools for Developers

• 2:15 Jamie Taylor, Metaweb, “Semantic + Location”
• 2:35 Marius Eriksen, Twitter, “geo @ Twitter”
• 2:55 Adam Schwen, GravityMobile, “Interface in Your Face: 11 Ways to Break Your Heart”
• 3:15 Geoffrey Clapp, “Developing with the Snaptic API”
• 3:30 BREAK

Building a Business Around Your App

• 3:45 Charles Yim, Google AdMob division, “Latest mobile data and best monetization practices”
• 4:00 Ashish Toshniwal, CEO of Y Media Labs , “Goto Market Strategy”
• 4:15 Brian Chen, WiRED, “Hacking the Press”
• 4:45 BREAK

Developing with a Vision

• 5:00 Juan Enriquez, “We Know What is Now, But What’s Next”

Developer Challenge Fun

• 5:30 Richard Tate, HopeLab, and Steve Brown, Snaptic, “Why Move Your App”
• 5:45 Jamis MacNiven, Buck’s of Woodside, Neil Izenberg, KidsHealth.org, Juan Enriquez, Excel Ventures, “Judges Discuss the Finalists”
• 6:00 Move Your App! winners
• 6:15 Dinner, drinks, mingle, hacking

At the SF New Tech Mobile event in San Francisco on May 5, Andreas Schobel and I had another chance to present the Snaptic notes technology and some of the developers we are working with in the Android market.

When we presented at SF New Tech the first time in 2009, we were a simple notepad app for Android smartphones. Then we found a way to add value to dozens of other Android apps as a note-taking function that developers easily could call and integrate using three lines of code. We used our 15 minute presentation at SXSW 2010 to highlight some of the top developers in the Android market that are working with us.

Three million active installs later, we have published our API and are becoming a notes platform, in the cloud and on smartphones, designed to make it easy to capture information that is important to you personally. Where Twitter is for content you want to promote to the world, Snaptic is a more personal space for information and data that you want use to improve yourself in some way. We make easy to capture what matters and make that information more useful by innovating in how we use context and semantics.

At SF New Tech this time around, we introduced our Move Your App! Android Developer Challenge. We brought together partners like the TED Prize, HopeLab, and KidsHealth to make it really worthwhile for developers to come up with Android apps that promote and track physical activity. The developer who can convince the judges that his or her app will get people off the couch and burn the most calories could win a trip to TED Global 2010 in Oxford.

Snaptic and HopeLab Announce the Android “Move Your App” Developer Challenge
TED to invite winner to attend TED Global 2010 in Oxford
Snaptic Press Release

San Francisco, CA — Snaptic , a developer of smartphone and web applications that capture, organize, and share information has partnered with HopeLab, a non-profit focused on improving the quality of life for young people with chronic illness, to sponsor the “Move Your App” developer challenge in response to the 2010 TED Prize Wish.

It is widely recognized that the obesity epidemic and sedentary behavior are catastrophic to global health. Today’s smartphone platforms, such as Android and software APIs like those offered by Snaptic, offer new tools for developers to create apps that give individuals more power and control to improve their health.

“Onboard smartphone sensors, the growth of large online social networks, and mass adoption of mobile software offer fertile ground for a new breed of apps that encourage and measure movement,” said Steve Brown, CEO of Snaptic. “We are excited to work with HopeLab and the Android developer community to help everyone reach a higher state of health and well being.” (more…)