iPhone Dev Camp has some pretty smart people hacking away at Apple’s brand new toy. A lot of the attendees have been working on their apps for months, and some are just starting out.
Paul Neyrinck and Ishan Anand have developed a simple bookmarks application called AppMarks. If you set AppMarks as your home page, the interface mirrors the iPhone home page, but instead shows icons that link to all of your favorite web apps or websites. I think this iPhone app will be successful because it’s elegant and simple, but at the same time very useful. My first criticism about the iPhone was the patience required to type a website address on the virtual keyboard.
AppMarks as your iPhone homepage reduced the instances of using the keyboard to type verbose web addresses. Another cool feature is the ability to access multiple apps with AppMarks. We are accustomed to opening a new tab when we browse the web, and Safari on the iPhone allows us to manage 8 separate web “viewports” at once. Watch the video above if you want a demonstration.
I don’t have an iPhone (yet), but this would definitely be my home page. Paul and Ishan demoed the unit for me, and it seemed really easy to add bookmarks or remove them.
I will report on some more apps later hopefully.
