Appcelerator's Titanium is an open source alternative to Adobe AIR to help you build your rich internet apps easily. We first saw Titanium hit the racks of the internet around December. Its three months down the line and at least we think they haven't made the noise they ought to have generated.
But we haven't seen as much of Titanium as we should be? There are a few easy things which Appcelerator hasn't done yet. And correct us if we're wrong.
- Average branding. Titanium is a great brand name, but my search on Titanium on Google brings up only one result on the first page which is relevant. Titanium Appcelerator seems to work though!
- This is something Appcelerator has to do. Write a Wikipedia page. It is after all an open source project which needs users for it to get popular.
- Get more people to tweet and write about it. We decided to blog about it after getting impressed with the free SDK, awesome tutorials and the wonderful twitter application, Tweetanium.
- Get more blogs to write about Titanium. Because we really think Lifehacker should have featured Tweetanium. True many have already featured Titanium, like the Readwriteweb blog
The Titanium App is open source and cross platform. Preview release 2 is now out and adds support to Linux as well. We think open source is the way to go and Titanium is a step in the right direction.
Download the
Titanium SDK here and start making your own apps.
Show your support to Titanium by
downloading Tweetanium
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Do you disagree with the statement that Titanium has branded itself the way it was supposed to? Do you think Titanium has already got its share of fame for the period of time it has been around? Would you be willing to give up on AIR and go open source? Leave your comments!
