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Getting Started with Estimote Nearables and Xamarin

I've been a big fan of Estimote (and beacons in general) for awhile now, but only just recently had a chance to finally play around with their nearables, dubbed Estimote Stickers. These stickers are similar to beacons, except that their primary purpose is to be attached to physical objects, and in addition to proximity also broadcast more contextual information about the object. This extra information contains a bunch of interesting details such as temperature, orientation, and…

Building Context-Aware Apps with Beacons

Recently I've been giving some talks on building context-aware apps with beacons, so I just wanted to quickly publish my content around that in one place. If it's not immediately obvious, I think beacons and context-based technologies are seriously awesome. First, Carl and Richard were nice enough to invite me back on .NET Rocks! to talk about this stuff as well. You can find that episode over on their site, or in any of the usual…