18 May, 2008

ProgrammableWeb: Directory for public web (web2.0) service API

ProgrammableWeb is an index for publicly available web API and mashup.

This is really a nice website, when you need to quick reference for all those API.

By the way, I find that, a kind of "scheduler" web service is lacking. Does it existed already?

Google App Engine

Google had released the Google App Engine on April. This service will be an perfect choice for SME, Open Source community, and individuals who doesn't want to maintain its own server environment / infrastructure.

It is a complete app hosting service /plus/ Python-based API. Currently, it provide a persistence API, url fetch API, and it support the django framework.

As a Python fan, I'd definitely try it out, though, I'm now on the waiting list only:(

10 May, 2008

Marriage of Web 2.0 and next generation mobile device

While web 2.0 application is a norm and more app / website has released iPhone specific or optimized version, this lead to a question in my mind: What's next?

Back to days when J2ME and smart phone hit the ground, I still don't buy any of these platform as they screen are so small and the UI is still very less convenient. Now with iPhone and Android coming next, I'm really expecting to see some new innovative app released.