Microsoft PopFly is Social Programming
Microsoft PopFly is going to seriously impede my ability to do real work at Microsoft. Oh, that’s right, I get paid to demo this stuff!
PopFly is social programming, without the programming. Publish your ‘flys and have them rated; have other’s outputs for your inputs. Web sites could create their own Blocks to publish in this different form.
It’s just fun to build stuff that mashes data together. Below is what I could produce within 5 minutes (2 minutes getting a Flickr API key) and typing less than 15 characters: it is a simple Flickr photoviewer, showing the last 100 public images uploaded to my Flickr.com account.
PopFly was announced officially overnight — but I had heard about the project in my first week at Microsoft. Hearing about it vs. trying PopFly out are two separate things.