April 2010

There is no longer any doubt that social networking and applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and others are transforming the way we connect and communicate with each other. In the process, these applications have expanded our close circle of friends to include dozens, hundreds or thousands of others actively participating in our life streams.

The Ribbit SDK team recently released version 1.6 and we highly suggest you pick them up at your earliest convenience. There are few new features that will help make your lives easier: One of them is the typed collections in .NET, Silverlight and Java SDKs. Another is the ability to choose your own vanity number with Ribbit inbound numbers. We'll be covering these features in more depth over the next few days.

In the meantime, here's where you can get the latest and greatest SDKs:

Like our neighbor up the road (Google), Ribbit gives its developers the option of using 20% of their time to spend on projects of interest to them. Allowing people to own pet projects increases innovation and is a ripe proving grounds for ideas that might benefit Ribbit in the long run.

There were more than a few themes to be had at Mobile World Congress, so many in fact, that it becomes hard to filter through the "me-too" noise and figure out what the signal to noise ratio is going to be for 2010.