I feel a little bit bad blogging about Apollo Camp because it’s been a ridiculously fun event, and we’re only 2.5 hours in. A lot of other bloggers covered the keynote better than I could, so I’ll just talk about what I’ve been up to.

I’ve been busy trying to get a feel for what people think about Apollo. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. I’ve gotten to meet and talk with a lot of people and gauge their interest. The first person I got to chat with was Andrew Spaulding, but he works for Adobe so his opinion isn’t unbiased, but it was great to get to chat with him. I also sat down and hung out with Lee Brimelow and some other guys from Frog Design. I think they’re intrigued with Apollo, but the big question is if clients will pay them to build Apollo apps. I think the future looks good. I also talked to Carson Hager of Cynergy for a long time about the ecosystem of Flex and how Apollo potentially fits into their business. And lastly I tracked down Niall Kennedy to get his thoughts. He was already using Flex for charting, but as I chatted with him he was into the Apollo bits and working to build an app.

So there’s a lot of excitement. When the bits go public, I can’t wait for the cascade of blog posts from people looking at the platform for the first time. The vibe here is very much that Apollo is charting a new course in software development. Now it’s up to the developers to help map that course.

[tags]Adobe, apollocamp[/tags]