Openkapow, netvibes api: easy mashups; openmoko dashboard?

Florent THIERY fthiery at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 17:30:02 CEST 2007


Hi

Note: this is not a feature request, just a discussion topic about
integrating web mashups on openmoko someday, or never.

********* Openkapow
Using http://openkapow.com , we may have a very easy and useful tool
for graphically developing mobile-oriented mashups (win & linux client
available). After designing the mashup, you publish it.

There are 3 types of "robots":
* RSS robots: they output results in an RSS field (1.0, 2.0, Atom)
* REST robots: output XML, JSON, CSV, HTML or XHTML
* clip robots: outputs an html page

You call the robots using simple urls like
http://service.openkapow.com/Andreas/mymashup.rest

Please tell me if i'm wrong, but in order to use these mashups on an
openmoko phone, we'd need:
* for html: a good webbrowser (dillo ?)
* for RSS, XML, Json ... a web-oriented scripting language (python?
http://www.python.org/pypi/demjson/1.1 ), with gtk+/glade bindings;

Of course, GPS-enabled mashups (GPS to geocoord wrapper ) would be
very insteresting...
Example of geographical context based mashup:
http://openkapow.com/forums/8562/ShowThread.aspx#8562

See the FAQ if interested
http://openkapow.com/blogs/support/archive/2006/12/04/FAQ.aspx

*********** Netvibes api
Another interesting API: the netvibes api is a "universal" widget api
http://dev.netvibes.com/
http://dev.netvibes.com/doc/universal_widget_api
They developed an Apple Dashboard widget, that can embed any UWA
widget, see the screencast:
http://dev.netvibes.com/doc/uwa_widget/screenshots#uwa_screencast
They planned support for other platforms.

It would be interesting to have the same widgets on your phone,
desktop and netvibes/google homepage. The form factor of widgets is
suitable to an embedded device...

*********** There is a list of mobile-oriented mashups too:
http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/mobile

All this to say that some sort of net-enabled openmoko widget/app
class may allow easy integration of web mashups into openmoko. Doing
webmail-checking apps, meteo displaying etc...

Questions:
* any plans yet for an openmoko dashboard (local - ex: detailed batt
usage, detailed GSM informations - & web)?
* what do you think of web mashups on mobiles?
* any feedback about openkapow already?

Florent




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