Teowaki founder Javier Ramirez kicked off his Future of Web Apps presentation with a striking headline from a local town newspaper:
“I’ve been posting my letters in the dog poo box for two years.”
In an effort to class up the North Yorkshire town (or perhaps to save on supplies), the town had painted dog waste bins the same elegant red of the public mailboxes.
“Everybody agrees web usability is a good investment.” Ramirez said, but “When I use an API, usability is not that cool,” he said, then running through the tedious process to get information via the Amazon API. “Ten simple steps,” he said, tongue in cheek.