Source: http://github.com/christianchristensen/PenguinGame

penguin_game.jar (29 KB)

from: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/editorial-ipad-prices-are-out-of-control-and-will-kill-us-all/

This weekend I was hypothesizing how three apps I think are very cool operate, specifically: Google Voice search, Shazam, Square. What shocked me about all of them was how available they were across platforms - particularly mobile. Then I came to quickly realize the only investment in development for each platform was front-end work; the piece they all had in common was the backend. Now, some might be familiar with some patterns that make this possible like MVC; but what really surprises me is how unbelievably seamless these apps work in the face of having to support different platforms. This leads me to a more philosophical question about touting an "app for that..." - really what we are seeing is that behind many of the good apps there is a terrific service that is capable of being abstracted from that devices interface.

This is how it can be done:http://where.tommacwright.com/

(alt: http://github.com/tmcw/where20presentation)

This is a result: http://mapbox.com/

(more explicitly: http://mapbox.com/tileset/dc-nightvision)

amazmagorical!