Thread: Update on the Maemo Summit co-creation project - what to expect
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2009-08-17 , 16:08
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@andy80:

Nokia already has an experimental service that does most everything you want for S60: Nokia Friendview.

I love most everything about it (and all the additional input you gave here), except that it's closed, closed, closed...

Which brings us to...

Originally Posted by andy80 View Post
One important thing: please provide API for ALL of these services! Integration is the best thing we can have. Don't close everything!
Better not provide an API but use existing protocols as far as possible. You can do a lot of what you suggested with XMPP (including location information)... Why not use that instead of yet another API? (Does any of you young guys remember the good old days when there were RFCs instead of APIs ?)

Augment it with new stuff (or a web service that has an API) only if absolutly necessary.
 

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