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On location at iPhone DevCamp

24:52 | editor | Jul 9th, 2007 11:52pm |

Just a week after the debut of the iPhone, about 300 developers gathered at the Adobe offices in San Francisco this weekend for a three-day developers camp/hackathon. The goal was to hack together applications for the iPhone. Apple doesn’t allow developers to write applications for the phone itself, so developers created Web-based applications that iPhone users will experience by visting Web sites in Safari. The applications spanned the spectrum, from games to apps that help you find nearby gas prices, shop on Amazon and iTunes, create word processing documents or use IM. We talked with event organizers Raven Zachary and Chris Messina and got a peek at some of the applications, including TeleMoose, gOffice, and AppMarks.

Co-Working: Independent Workers Unite

06:32 | Ryanne Hodson | Jun 27th, 2007 |

Many people strive for the freedom that working for themselves and freelancing brings. You can work odd hours in your pajamas at home, travel to exotic locales but still be on the job, not have to clock in at an office. After the initial exhilaration of being independent cools a ...
Chris Messina on BarCamps and Open Source Evangelism

16:46 | Kiruba Shankar | Nov 3rd, 2006 |

YouTube sold out for a whopping $1.65 billion to Google recently. And guess what the YouTube users got? Nothing. So, this has rubbed people like Chris Messina the wrong side. We talk to Chris about CrowdSourcing and he explains why big companies buying popular user-generated content websites may ...