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| Industry | web software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Tom Robinson Francisco Tolmasky Ross Boucher |
| Headquarters | |
280 North was a web software developmentstartup company formed in 2008 by college friends Tom Robinson, Francisco Tolmasky, and Ross Boucher.[1] It was purchased byMotorola in 2010.[2] Tolmasky and Boucher both previously worked forApple, on theiPhone andiTunes respectively.[1]
They created a software stack that includesObjective-J, which relates to Javascript in the same way thatObjective-C relates to C, andCappuccino, which is a port of the AppleCocoa API. Cappuccino and Objective-J have been released as open source software.[3] Their first major release was 280 Slides, which is presentation software similar to Apple'sKeynote or Microsoft'sPowerPoint, but that works entirely in a web browser usingJavaScript.[1] Their next project was a drag-and-drop visualintegrated development environment for web applications named Atlas, which could work with theiPhone API. Atlas was to be open-sourced, but, after acquiring 280 North,Motorola decided to keep Atlas private.[4][5][6]