Who Needs a Mobile Browser Anyway? Not You, Says Yahoo.
Playing around with the new Yahoo Go 3 application got me to thinking that most of my mobile Internet needs do not really require a browser. As I blogged here, Go 3 is Yahoo’s new mobile developer platform, designed to facilitate the creation of mobile applications by independent software developers. On your mobile [...]
Yahoo Moves Widgets to the Mobile Masses
Yahoo has made headlines from its new mobile strategy, announced this week at CES. The details have been widely reported (see here), but the announcement is particularly interesting to me because it is the first attempt by a major internet player to provide a general purpose widget API designed specifically for the mobile [...]
Towards a Federation of Widgets
The result of Facebook’s recent decision to open their API to third party developers is that application providers suddenly have a chance to reach millions of eyeballs with virtually no sales or marketing expense. A clever application can grow virally at a pace never before possible.
One such benefactor of this phenomenon is RockYou, [...]