“We’ve started to notice new APIs emerging where there is no corresponding service. Or, put another way, the service is the API and thus the company is an API. The Twilio API (a ProgrammableWeb sponsor) is a prime example, offering telephony-as-a-service. Developers pay a few pennies per use to add voice and SMS to their applications. Developers have certainly responded: we list nearly 150 Twilio mashups.”
That’s the good news. But of course there has to be a catch. Check out what Wallaby is optimised for.
“The focus for this initial version of Wallaby is to do the best job possible of converting typical banner ads to HTML5. Wallaby does a good job of converting graphical content along with complex, timeline-based animation to HTML5 in a form that can be viewed with browsers using a WebKit rendering engine. Supported WebKit browsers include Chrome and Safari on OSX, Windows, and iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod).”
Oh no – HTML banner ads. How are we going to block those? 😉
On HTML this tweet also caught my eye.
Interesting to see Jolicloud port their great web dashboard to HTML5 ready browsers only: http://j.mp/hzNK8M. – @tomwoolway
I don’t know Jolicloud but I do know Tom Woolway rocks, so I will be looking into this one. Seems like Jolicloud is supporting multiple platforms, including Android, but the iPad app (as an experimental HTML5 port) is what struck me. We’re going to see a lot of that.
And finally a wonderful link I came across last night. Its a classic reframing of a long time issue- and it made me think deeply about what we do, and how and why we do it. Software innovation is harder to measure than processor speeds and feeds, but its often where the real action is. Developers deliver more aggressive increases in performance than chips tracking Moore’s law do. Frankly I need to think on it more. You do too.
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