The authors at Quomodo
In order to allow people from all backgrounds (our authors) to expand our services, we make available to them a development platform, in particular QAT (Quomodo Authoring Toolkit), the toolkit to build smartnotes, and the related documentation.
Quomodo Authoring Toolkit (QAT) is a development environment to build collaborative web applications in HTML and Javascript. All HTML/Javascript developers can easily:
- develop their own smartnote in no time with QAT (about a week),
- make it available to all Quomodo users,
- make money with it: Quomodo shares with the author half of the income that the smartnote generates.
The income generated by a smartnote is computed from the measured usage of the smartnote by Quomodo's customers. The author gets royalties corresponding to half of this income.
At first sight, Quomodo smartnotes look much like Microsoft Gadgets, or like the widgets at Google or in a Mac. There are however three major differences.
- A Quomodo smartnote is shared by a group to which the user belongs, and inside which he communicates. This opens to a whole new range of services: for instance smartnotes such as Questionnaire or Private messages are very convenient tools in a group but they would make little sense out of that context.
- Developing a Quomodo smartnote is accessible to the largest number of developers: any PC or Mac with a web browser running is all you need.
- Authors value their know-how and their work: they program only the specific part of a smartnote. Many heavy peripheral tasks are automatically handled by the system at no cost for the programmer such as the graphical layout (mostly handled by CSS), useful utilities such as the file upload and files management, and of course the web hosting, the marketing, and the payment.
The Quomodo team reviews, validates, installs on our servers, and maintains the smartnotes provided by Authors. Thanks to our system, we offer to our customers one-purpose-only smartnotes, which make the specificity and particular pleasure of use of their Quomodo space.
To visit the developers' home page
click here.