Some TapLynx Odds & Ends + Brent Simmons' Take
Behind the scenes, things are moving forward with our new iPhone application framework, TapLynx. As I mentioned in the previous post, we now have a splash page up for the framework, and you can sign up for the SDK, which we hope to begin sending out by mid-July.
We'll also be releasing a white paper at the end of this month which will, hopefully, answer a lot of the questions you have about this exciting new offering. Until then, I thought I'd post what NewsGator's Brent Simmons (creator of NetNewsWire for iPhone) has to say about TapLynx, since his explanation is simple and succinct:
"The idea behind TapLynx is that you can take a collection of feeds and some artwork, make choices about colors and gradients and behavior (all in a configuration file you edit), then create an iPhone app. Without doing any programming.
But you can do programming if you want to — use TapLynx as the base and add more features. (In fact, that’s what I’m doing with NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone — it’s a custom app built on TapLynx.)"
Once again, you can sign up to the the SDK here, and we'll let you know as soon as it's available. Thanks!
How will the SDK be licensed?
Posted by: Brian | June 24, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Brian,
The SDK will be licensed on a per-app basis. The framework will be free to download and learn, but apps that are deployed on the framework need an API key from NewsGator that will unlock traffic restrictions on the demo API key. Each app/API key will be sold separately.
Please let me know if you have additional questions.
Posted by: Josh Larson | June 24, 2009 at 11:15 AM
The goal of TapLynx is to help users generate topic-focused media applications for the iPhone without any programming required. The first application, created by Simmons, has already been built for All Things Digital."
Posted by: Speicherkarten | October 03, 2009 at 12:09 AM