Handful of Nothing

I was almost forgeting to talk about that :

Iphone maybe open to third party developers (let’s see what kind of sandbox apple will use). I think this shows the power of public opinion, after all the public is the consumer. When Jobs said that the software could be dangerous, and bring networks down (that was kind of overrated) he was just giving a immediate excuse to something that they could not deny: the importance of having software for a device like the Iphone.

My guess here is that they are going for the widget kind of dev. Maybe not like the widget 100% due to memory consumption and possible leaks in javascript engine (not possible, actually real leaks)
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/iphone-to-get-third-party-apps/

Google Gears Released! In order to offer offline web application support, google released google gears, that can make front to something a little bit more complex but trying to achieve the same : Adobe’s apollo. Gears provides ways for the application to save and serve application resources / data locally and also gives the developer a nice relational database to use in ajax applications. Sounds nice and actually a lot simplier than apollo, that rely on flash in order to do it’s magic. I will test this as soon as possible to be able to talk more about it.