iPhone Camp Creates New iPhone Applications
07.11.07 - 12:18pm
This weekend in San Francisco an iPhoneDevCamp was held. A place where developer’s gathered to unlock the secrets of the iPhone and create iPhone applications.
This DIY - do-it-yourself - event was free and open to anyone who wanted to come, join and contribute. Over 325 attendees did just that.
“It’s about embracing constraints,” said Chris Messina, 26, an entrepreneur in San Francisco and an event organizer. “These constraints aren’t holding us back. They are giving us focus.”
Focus is exactly what they did as they spent the weekend brainstorming in various groups and opening up all sorts of ways to access and improve the iPhone. In the end they came up with dozens of new apps in one weekend with many developers so pumped up they spent all Saturday night coding.
“The spirit was generous,” said Jory Felice, a seniro Web developer at Belkin International Inc. “People get a sense of pride that their solution works for a lot of people.”
The apps ranged from interesting to humorous. Dain Kennison, a designer at Media Temple Inc, developed a way to make the iPhone yell like a Wookie from “Star Wars” when dropped. One application turned the iPhone into a baby monitor.
A way was created to shop on Amazon called TeleMosse. PickleView lets you combine baseball play-by-play information from MLBcom with twitters from friends, and gOffice creates word documents for your iPhone.
For all the rest of the cool applications go to the iPhoneCampDev website.
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