I just took a bike ride but before I left I thought I’d get a GPS app for my iPhone (which took about 5 minutes from formal need recognition to cognitive dissonance resolution). I opted for the most downloaded app from MotionX. I was just looking for something to track my route around the lower southwestern quadrant of Metropolitan Denver. I wasn’t quite banking on all I found on this app, notably my ability to login with Facebook and to follow the company on Twitter. I mean, come on. I’m just riding a bicycle. But it does point up how applications are being deconstructed into focused, value-added services and kind of “websourcing” all the other needed services for identity (Facebook), status (Twitter), and images (Flickr). It’s the theme of Gluecon (which I think use to be Defrag). Pretty soon 9 year olds are going to be able to build apps.
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