280 North, Inc.

280 North is a web software development startup company formed in 2008 by college friends Tom Robinson, Francisco Tolmasky, and Ross Boucher.[1] Tolmasky and Boucher both previously worked for Apple, on the iPhone and iTunes respectively.[1]

They created a software stack that includes Objective-J, which relates to Javascript in the same way that Objective-C relates to C, and Cappuccino, which is a port of the Apple Cocoa API. Cappuccino and Objective-J have been released as open source software.[2] Their first major release was 280 Slides, which is presentation software similar to Apple's Keynote or Microsoft's PowerPoint, but that works entirely in a web browser using JavaScript.[1] Their next project is a drag-and-drop visual integrated development environment for web applications named Atlas, which can work with the iPhone API.[3][4] [5]

280 North is funded by Y Combinator.[6] It was recently purchased by Motorola.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Forseman, Chris (June 26, 2008). "Cocoa on the web: 280 North, Objective-J, and Cappuccino". ars technica. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/06/cocoa-on-the-web-280-north-objective-j-and-cappuccino.ars. Retrieved May 12, 2009. 
  2. ^ Cappuccino
  3. ^ SD Times Issue No. 219, April 1, 2009, pp. 1, 21
  4. ^ Forseman, Chris (March 31, 2009). "Atlas: a visual IDE for desktop-like web apps". ars technica. http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/03/atlas-a-visual-ide-for-desktop-like-web-apps.ars. Retrieved May 12, 2009. 
  5. ^ Kumparak, Greg (March 4, 2009). "280 North’s Atlas bridges the gap between Web Apps and native iPhone applications". MobileCrunch. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/03/04/280-norths-atlas-bridges-the-gap-between-web-apps-and-native-iphone-applications/. Retrieved May 12, 2009. 
  6. ^ 280 North Company Profile, CrunchBase.
  7. ^ Arrington, Michael (August 24, 2010). "Motorola Snaps Up 280 North For $20 Million". http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/motorola-snaps-up-280-north-for-20-million/. 

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