iPhoneDevCamp
Making the web a better place for iPhone. — Hack-a-thon presentations now available as podcast at http://kh7wg.podomatic.com - it is nearly 3 hours long so it is a bit of a download! — Check CocoaRadio for interviews with several hackathon teams including: Mojits, Telemoose, moPhaic, iRingRing & WordBreaker.
Context & Ripple Effects
Nine days after the release of the iPhoneInterface unlock tool showed the native filesystem was already being pried open, the BarCamp community convened iPhoneDevCamp around the other side of the device: 'making the web a better place for iPhone.' The event ran as a hack-a-thon producing named projects — Mojits, Telemoose, moPhaic, iRingRing, WordBreaker — and the organizers have now published the presentations as a nearly three-hour podcast on podomatic, with CocoaRadio carrying interviews from several of the teams.
It matters because the camp documents an organized developer scene forming around a device with no official third-party channel yet, distinct from but parallel to the unlocking effort covered earlier this month.
First-order effects
- The hackathon teams gain distribution overnight: their demos are now reachable by anyone willing to download the three-hour podcast or hear the CocoaRadio interviews, turning one weekend's work into public portfolio material.
- Organizers convert a physical BarCamp-style event into persistent audio content, extending the audience well beyond attendees.
Second-order effects
- A visible web-apps-for-iPhone talent pool gives early adopters something to install before any sanctioned app pipeline exists, while the separate unlocking track signaled by the iPhoneInterface tool keeps pressure on Apple from the native side.
- Coverage formats like CocoaRadio interviews and the earlier TechCrunch eventstreaming piece show media channels forming specifically to carry this grassroots activity to a wider audience.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds, BarCamp-style camps become the de facto developer-relations layer for closed platforms — communities organizing showcases, podcasts, and team identities in the space an owner like Apple has left unfilled, until the company decides whether to absorb or shut out that energy.
The trend: Grassroots developer communities are self-organizing around the iPhone through hackathons and podcast distribution faster than any official platform program can form.