Announcing the Presdo API, and the Presdo iPhone 3G Contest
Today, we’re very delighted to announce the opening of the Presdo API, and the Presdo iPhone 3G Contest, both of which were released over the weekend! More about the latter in a minute.
What does the Presdo API mean to us? When we first launched Presdo, many users wrote in to ask if we were planning to release an API or an integration with their favorite productivity tool. They recognized that Presdo helps them with an important activity that they already do, albeit not in a very good way today. Presdo would help them do it much better if only it were easier to access. More so than many other web apps, Presdo makes a lot of sense when it is embedded in the existing flows of the way people work. We agreed. Also, we mentioned at the beginning that we wanted to actively engage our users and community to create a great product together. We also realize that we don’t have a lock on all the best ideas.
With the Presdo API, we wanted to enable not only a few integrations that we could do on our own. We wanted to enable our users and developers to create many integrations at once.
Like our product, the initial Presdo API is simple. (But we’d like to think it’s not simple-minded!) In speaking with many developers over the last several months about a possible Presdo API, we realized that there were many capabilities we could build into the API, and in fact, we’ve envisioned much more capability than is currently available in the API.
So here’s a challenge to all of you who want to push Presdo to the next level. We’d like to learn from you and to understand what you’d like to do in terms of integrating with Presdo. If we like your ideas, we’ll be supporting you all the way.
To get the juices of innovation flowing, we are running a programming contest around the new API and awarding some great prizes from a company we greatly admire. We will be announcing the judges shortly. During the contest, we will also be enhancing the features of Presdo, and updates will be posted to this blog. These enhancements may stoke your thinking about new potential applications with Presdo, so we encourage you to stay tuned to this blog for such announcements.
We hope that you’ll take us up on these opportunities to do something fantastic with Presdo. We are really looking forward to it.
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