Popfly goes into public beta!

18. Oct, 2007 4 Comments

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I still remember the phone call with John Montgomery nearly a couple of years ago. I was in the Chapters in Burlington when John called up with this idea that he had for building a tool that made it easy for folks to create mash-ups on the web. Both John and I were really amazed by the work that _why had done with TryRuby, and we wanted to experiment with some ideas around creating a tool that would teach non-programmers how to program, and help connect those programmers with each other.

I wrote the original prototype that kicked off the Popfly project in a couple of weeks. My prototype (not surprisingly) was heavily code-centric, which is quite unlike what Popfly has become today. "Hello, World" was all an app that grabbed photos of letters tagged in flickr and displayed them on the screen. It was an amazingly fun project though, and I’m really impressed by what the Popfly team has been able to do since then.

Today, John managed to get Steve Ballmer (you really should click on that link) to announce the public beta of Popfly at the Web 2.0 Summit. Go try it out and let them (or me) know what you think!

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4 Responses to “Popfly goes into public beta!”

  1. Anxious 20. Oct, 2007 at 7:39 am

    A link would be nice! ;-P

  2. John Lam 20. Oct, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Whoops. Just added the link now. Thanks for the catch!

  3. ruby 20. Oct, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    “Microsoft Popfly doesn’t support your browser at this time
    Please use Internet Explorer 6.0 (32 bit) or newer, or Firefox 2.0 or newer to access Popfly.”
    it s all about this:)

  4. Josh Davey 22. Oct, 2007 at 1:08 pm

    Yea, congrats to the Pop Fly team on all the work they’ve done on this project since it’s initial prototype.
    Definitely not as I remember it 2 years ago when as John said it was mainly code centric (which was still wicked cool).
    The ability to create iterations of other people’s projects is really cool. I just wish that button was bigger. I was searching all over for the option to look at how someone built their mashup and I finally found it but could’ve sworn I was clicking on a button to send a message to the user.