If it's Tech and it's Creative, then it's Techreative. Which pretty much sums up what I do. Building fun, silly, and phenomenally useful ideas out of lots of little pieces of technology.
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How @anywhere and Annotations will enable awesomeness #chirp
At Chirp (the Twitter Developer Conference), COO Dick Costolo went into some more details about Twitter’s previously announced @anywhere initiative, and Director of Platform Ryan Sarver announced a new feature called Annotations.
I won’t rehash what these two things do as there’s already good explanations on dev.twitter.com and vator.tv.
The power of these features comes when you combine them — essentially eliminating many people’s need for server side code. Annotations will eliminate the need for simple databases. And with @anywhere, you get the entire API via Javascript. Plug. Play. Play some more. All without calling up your buddy who’s a PHP expert and can help figure out what the hell OAuth is.
Where does the awesomeoness come in? Speed to market. Cut/paste Javascript will make development faster. Silly, stupid ideas gain more traction if you can build it and share it the same night you think it up. @anywhere is going to make it easier to cobble an idea together, and it will be easier to upload it to your server and test out.
These features are going to make Twitter development more open to designers, creators, and innovators. You’re going to see a lot more apps — silly ones, gorgeous ones, simple-why-didnt-i-think-of-that ones.
I’m looking forward to it.
