Use Open Source Titanium to build your RIAs

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.
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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!
Thanks for writing about Titanium!
I’ll agree about Titanium not getting enough buzz, and we’re working on that. But let’s remember that Titanium is a very young project, so many people are still reluctant to write heavily about it. After all, the current release is only the second preview release. And while many people are writing about it, most of the posts are more of introductory articles because there hasn’t been a lot of experimentation with the platform yet.
But like I said, we’re working on that. Part of the problem is the lack of contributors to the project, especially those who could work as platform evangelists, so we’re constantly on the lookout for more contributors. The Dev Team is hard at work at polishing and fixing the platform, and they could only do so much in terms of writing and evangelism, so it’s really up to the community to do the evangelism work.
There are a few things in store for the next few months that would certainly boost Titanium’s exposure, and we’re really excited about that. It might not be so apparent, but the community is growing daily and we’re getting people from other open source projects–like Bespin and Cappucino–excited about Titanium as well.
As for your points, I’d like to answer the first two, since I already address the last two above:
1. The product’s name is actually Appcelerator Titanium. We just regularly refer to it as Titanium. You could say that using “Titanium” as a brand name is “average branding” in as much as you could say “Air” is “bad branding.” After all, isn’t air much common that titanium?
2. Like I said, the project is still too young, so a Wikipedia page at this point is still a mile ahead. We’ll probably write one in the future, but right now, it’ll just be too soon.
In any case, thanks for writing about Titanium. We’re really excited about this project, and we hope that developers will see just how much Titanium will help in leveraging their skillset.
Mark Obcena
Titanium Core Contributor
I agree with most of views except the one on not having a page on Wikipedia. Most pre release software have a wikipedia page and Titanium is a revolutionary one. Its open source RIA for all. One of these days I’ll create one myself.
One more thing. Adobe Air stresses on the all encompassing Adobe…lol…. And shouldnt your signature be Appcelerator Titanium Core contributor?
Hi,
My name is Trevor and I am with Appcelerator. I see that one of our core contributors has already gotten to you! haha. Well I do agree that we need a Wikipedia page! Some general information and brief history and uses would be good. We are working on it, but the priority right now is constantly improving the platform and so on.
We greatly appreciate your article and we acknowledge the time and effort that you put into writing this article and on top of it you are very excited about us! We would like to give you a little extra perk, if you want, you can send me your mailing address and I would be happy to send you a Titanium shirt and an Appcelerator wristband.
Maybe you can become another evangelist! We are always looking for more!
Thanks from the Appcelerator team
Trevor
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