Twitter Launches New Portal for Developers

The microblogging service is preparing a new special site for software developers developing third-party applications.  According to the representatives of the company, the site will be launched in July.

According to Ryan Sarver, the head of the Twitter platform development, the popular service is going to provide apps developers and their partners with a free access to the information.

The Twitter management expects that with the help of this new site they’ll be able to establish a contact with developers. The site will publish recommendations and tips on software development services. Moreover, the site will have a forum for developers where the microblogging service officials will leave their comments.

As one of the reason for launching a new site is a rapid growth in the number of developers interested in Twitter, connected with the service integration into the mobile platform Apple iOS.

On June 30 Twitter announced that the number of messages sent by users has increased three times for the last year. Every day microbloggers leave 200 mln messages in Twitter.

Top Web Trends in 2009. Structured information on the Internet

This year Tim Berners-Lee said that the Internet is becoming more  informational and now we are using information from the Internet  rather more often than documents and files as it was before. W3C, the  organization, which Tim Berners-Lee heads, supports two major  initiatives that focused on making the Internet more informational:  Semantic Web and the recent Linked Data.

Over the past few years we have seen some interesting examples of how  to structure data and provide the possibility to use it. The best  example of it is Twitter, which API is responsible for 90% of the  service activity, thanks to third-party applications, of course.

The basic principle of the informational Internet formulated by Alex Iskold has not changed: Unstructured information will be structured  and it will open the way to more reasonable use of the Internet. Web
application developers should remember this rule and provide only  easy-to-use and convenient applications to manage company  documentation, processes, and workflows. Companies, on the other hand,
should choose developers who offer only custom web application  programming services with easy content management.