I met Kevin Marks at Google IO and asked him about OpenID and where it is headed.
Passion for Open standards by people like Kevin drove Opensocial at Google and adoption of OpenID by facebook.
Yfrog twitter app is the first to bring video upload to twitter clients. They started with imageshack as a web photo hosting business.
Jack Levin co-founder of Imageshack and Yfrog brings his learning from Google with focused determination to change the twitter app world.
Seesmic bought the twitter client twhirl and created Seesmic Desktop.
I was fascinated by Seesmic Desktop as they became the first to bring facebook connect integration to the desktop.
Seesmic CTO Johann Romefort talks about their vision to provide a seamless integration across multiple desktops and iphone. The key message I got here is they chose to build upon Twhirl and are focused on listening to users.
What inspires you?
My passion is for BottomUp Innovation by geeks in various app ecosystems. My heros are innovative developers who create new apps on facebook, twitter, iphone, nokia etc. They build businesses, inspire new developers to create a new application ecosystem one app at a time.
I have been interviewing developers who create cool apps hoping it will inspire many others to follow their dreams and unleash their creativity. You the cast of characters from JeffPulver’s #140conf twitter conference have inspired me to finally get this blog up!!!!
The first of my videos is of Loren Britcher, founder of Tweetie, twitter app.
Here you’ll see videos of geeks, and the architects of the app ecosystems. I aspire to collect many stories and cover the topics that drives the growth of these ecosystems and to keep it truly global as possible.
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Sudha Jamthe
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