I hope to get a number of things out of my participation in 23 Mobile Things - obviously I hope to learn about some new apps that I didn't know about, including those that will increase my productivity and efficiency in my day-to-day life and work.  Additionally I hope I can identify those that are good enough to tell others about, both my work colleagues and friends. 

On a higher level, I hope I can develop more skills in evaluation of mobile apps and which features, from a usability standpoint, are really good and which are not so good.   It should help my skills around learning new interfaces and functionality.  The more practice you get with different products, the quicker I think you can identify what works and what doesn't work. 

At some point, I would like to learn more about building an app myself.  I don't know that I will develop the skills to be able to do that in this self-learning program, but it may awaken my interest further and strengthen my confidence in attempting something like that.