We launched the Killer App Challenge on November 16, while the Ribbit team was manning a huge booth at Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. I took the stage that day and presented Ribbit functionality and new demo apps to a packed room of extremely enthused Flash and Flex developers looking to get a sense of what rich communications services the platform was all about.
Some of the Ribbit Team went to South By Southwest last week to spread the good word on how a utility should provide its services to an ever increasingly ROI-savvy world. We had great conversations on what the face of telephone service looks like. I had never been to SxSW before, and had no idea what to expect. It was amazing. Never have I been around such a huge group of people who care so much about interaction. So here is my quick recap: My close friends at OrdinaryKids were nominated for an interactive award.
Always a fan of legitimate tech nomenclature, and having just watched this interesting You Tube about "Web Hooks" by Jeff Lindsay, I am really compelled to A. pass the good word on here and B. do a little pontification of the impact of what was was said.
The short of why I am bringing it up here is that his proposition implies a fundamental change in how API's will be consumed along with a kind of inversion of control over what the provided service contextually does.
I was happy to discover that Ribbit's presentation at Adobe MAX 2008 this year was finally posted, in full, on Adobe TV.
While our presence at MAX this year was huge, the presentation was one of main focal points of our mission there in getting the word out about Ribbit and its amazing phone and messaging API platform.
Short Blog this week, RDP is working on an extra secret awesome project for everyone in the developer community to see. We will show it off next week. In the mean time, here is a great article of little things that we should all ( ahem, me ) strive to remember to do while we code, wrapped in a digestible, approachable format : http://tinyurl.com/bkobuk - via SeanThe[Flex/Flash]Guy's twitter : http://twitter.com/seantheflexguy
Well, it won't just be Flex, in fact, it should probably be called " CS4 and the City" but that doesn't have the same ring to it. Oh well. This week Chuck Freedman and I will be attending the Adobe CS4 release tour starting out in the New York City to show folks what Ribbit is all about. We have so much cool stuff to talk about. We have the contest, new features that are being implemented in the API, awesome T-Shirts, sample applications, just to name a few. We will be meeting up with some really nice folks while we are out there, too.
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