What would be the best platform for using web 2.0 APIs? There are interesting web 2.0 services, almost all offering free-to-use APIs (http://www.programmableweb.com/), such as the recent netvibes crossplatform widget API http://dev.netvibes.com/ or Imity, who recently released an open source phone client.
Imity uses your mobile phone (bluetooth) to sense people around you, people that are members of the same social networks as you. http://www.imity.com/pocket-radar http://code.google.com/p/imity-client/ What's interesting about it is that it's not restricted to one social network, but to other ones too (ex: flickr). And it works offline too . "Imity will support integration with partners through dynamic objects. Imity objects will allow social networks of any kind to use Imity as a platform for physical real-life support of their web application." I'd be happy to do the same with last.fm neighbours in real life... Or any friend-based network: "oh you know my friend *** ?" We should take a second look at the python twisted networking framework: the twistedmatrix projects allow easy use of ssh, sftp, http client/server, smtp, imap, pop, dns, nntp, IM client/servers (OSCAR (AIM and ICQ), IRC, MSN, TOC (AIM), jabber). http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedProjects Maybe this could help in the scripting language decision. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
