‘Does Everything’ Applications
While Judging the Sony Ericsson Content Awards over the last few days, I became aware of the trend for applications to do a lot more than their main purpose.
I have also seen this need on the Android market. When authors produce applications, there are sometimes lots of people suggesting things like ‘why not add maps’, ‘why not add location’ or other unrelated features.
While I am wondering about the merits of applications that try to do everything, other people might already be wondering how to go about adding lots of additional services to their applications.
One solution that might help is the Proximity Match Mobile Platform (MOBIAPI) released a few weeks ago. It allows mobile developers to quickly create applications that interact with various web services and social data repositories through one interface. Here’s a summary of the 50+ web services…
The Proximity Match Mobile Platform aims to enable both social web communities and mobile application developers to consume services without having to spend time worrying about integration, development cost or sharing proprietary information.
The data Service APIs are provided free of charge. Proximity Match will eventually earn revenue from additional services they are launching (most are pay per use), custom integrations and working with data providers (API development and user analysis).
