Telegraph developers weekend: Morning highlights

Posted by Martin Stabe on 26 April 2008 at 13:44
Tags: Telegraph.co.uk

This morning’s presentations from Digg, Google, Adobe and Apple have provided some inspiration for potential Telegraph applications.

So far, we’ve heard about Digg’s API, iGoogle, Google Earth, Open Social, Adobe AIR or development tools for iPhone or iPod Touch.

I’ve already mentioned the Google presentation (and have been Twittering some other things). Here are some highlights from the other presentations:

Apple’s Paul Burford says Safari now has 71 per cent market share in the US mobile browser market. He shows off the iPhone OS and the iPhone developer tools. A new “App Store” will be the only way for end users to load applications onto the phone. The reason, he says, is that this is to protect users from applications that are badly written or do malicious things.
Adobe’s Xavier Agnetti shows off an Adobe AIR project, currently under development, which will let customers of fashion etailer Anthropologie search its product range by picking a colour from a palette or picking a colour from a local image.
Digg’s Matt Van Horn shows off how Digg drives traffic to news sites, such as when an eight-year-old Guardian story about Astronaut sex suddenly went viral or how the New York Times’ traffic from Digg grew after its added Digg buttons. More

The visiting developers are now being taken for a tour of the Telegraph newsroom or for lunch.

This afteroon, they will disperse to training sessions with Google, Adobe and APple before the tomorrow’s developer competition is launched this afternoon.

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