What I Learned Tonight at the MITX Event
The panel was a lot of fun.
Not surprisingly, considering the the smart folks I was paired with, I learned a few things myself, the two biggest:
- People are really excited about the potential of Opensocial. I guess that shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it was interesting how unanimous the excitement was amongst the panel members (and that ignores the actual Google employee on the panel)
- Adobe AIR is the best solution going for cross-platform desktop widgets. Why? They’ll run on a Mac, Windows and even Linux and the development platform (Flash/Flex) is one that is widely supported and relatively easy to staff. compare that to the specialized knowledge needed to unlock the power of some of the other platforms and the fact that work needs to be split amongst them and Air is the way to go.
Thanks to everyone that came out!
C.C. Chapman Says:
Yeah it was funny how we kept talking about Open Social. Felt almost like an ad for Google which was made even more fun by them sitting there with us.
Great to meet you last night. Hope our paths cross again.
Posted: April 16th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Tom OKeefe Says:
Adobe Air Rocks!
Posted: April 16th, 2008 at 10:29 am