Mike Stopforth

So that’s where Rod is going!

I’ll let Rod explain how it all works: “What is Teqlo? Teqlo adds verbs to the Internet… (for example) grab information from Site A, send it to site B, based on that, do some calculations in my customized online spreadsheet in site C, and then watch the result. If, after a while a certain outcome happens, send me an SMS message.

The best part is that building the highly customized personal application I have just described takes only the tiniest amount of effort. It is easier than coding a spreadsheet. It’s about as complicated as building email rules.

There is magic in the way that this happens. Or at least a bunch of proprietary and patented algorithms. Key to all of it is that web services get wrapped and abstracted in a bunch of widgets that are designed to fit together like cogs in a machine. We call them teqlets.”

Wow. This is groundbreaking stuff. Rod is also crowdsourcing help from people who buy into the concept:

“You can help me in three ways:

1. Help give me ideas for great applications that can be built within the Teqlo Ecosystem. My email address is at the top of this blog. I really do want to immediately start to talk with people who need the kinds of custom applications Teqlo can provide.

2. Put me in touch with people at great companies that can provide useful Teqlets. In return, Teqlo can help them to radically extend the power of their application by both adding functionality and by giving their end users the ability to customize how they work with their applications.

3. If you know open source developers who are interested in extending frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, Symfony, Django, and DotNetNuke, please send them my way.”

The idea that I could, with my absolutely minimal coding experience, stitch applications and tools together to create customised, personal solutions is mind-blowing. Teqlo is in closed beta at the moment but as soon as it’s out, I’m in.

Well done again to Rod on his appointment.