A Platform for Creativity

Coming off of last week's Remix tour with Charlie Leadbeater, it's great to see that the tech companies that inspired our search for city-wide platforms for enabling mass creativity are continuing to innovate. According to the New York Times, In its first-ever developer day, Google is showing how a new product, Google Gears, allows developers to tailor web-based applications for offline use. In typical fashion, Google is releasing Gears as an open-source product that can be tailored to users' individual specifications. What's the result? Creativity:

"This is not the first time that Google has offered tools to developers. Indeed, the company, much like many of its competitors in recent years, has long opened up many of its own programs to others, in hopes they would use them as building blocks for their own software and services.

"For instance, when Google allowed others to build map-based software and services on top of its Google Maps product, an explosion of creativity ensued. Online travel and real estate companies used the maps to enhance their own Web sites or to create entirely new businesses. And even individual programmers used data from multiple sources to 'mash up' new applications."

  

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