Our COO, Daniel Odio is quoted in this newest edition of the Christian Science Monitor: Revenues from Apple’s and others’ primary app stores are slated to rise from $3 billion last year to $18 billion by 2014, according to Todd Day, an industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “I was around in the ’90s when the first browser came out, and this feels like that,” says Daniel Odio, a cofounder of PointAbout, an app developer… Read more »

So the developers here at PointAbout found an awesome new tool this week that has some really useful applications. It’s called Yahoo Pipes, and there’s a demo video below that shows you how to use it do do all kinds of RSS-enabling things to make your content more versatile than ever. For example, AppMakr is all about RSS. But, regular RSS– not Atom. If this was a problem before, it definitely isn’t any longer, thanks… Read more »

Here at PointAbout, we love RSS because it helps you build great apps yourself! Here’s what RSS does, in plain English: AppMakr compiles your existing RSS feeds into a tidy little app with graphics and icons you customize yourself. This can be done in under a minute, with the option to purchase the app you’ve just built for a fraction of the average market cost– you can even start using it right away. Here’s the… Read more »

You can easily acquire location by using the PointAbout Springboard using JavaScript. First import the interface script: [sourcecode language="jscript"] [/sourcecode] please make sure to change the X.X with the correct version number which has been given to you.  You code should look similar to the one below: [sourcecode language="jscript"] [/sourcecode] The javascript interface allows PointAbout’s Springboard to communicate with your webpage by passing messages using JavaScript.    Next we’ll create callbacks so that when the Springboard… Read more »