The API-apalooza conference I mentioned a couple weeks ago is picking up speed, and morphing. We’re no longer proposing a three-day, attend-some-panels, schmooze-in-the-lobby event. Instead, we’re putting together a whole training program that will span many months, and will be accountable to a very concrete goal – creating kick-ass APIs.

So the name API-apalooza didn’t work anymore. Too evocative of a single event. Instead, I’ve come up with a new name: the AP-iOpener. Get it? AP “eye” opener? Cuz it will open people’s eyes to the power of APIs?

And if that’s not funny enough for you …

Q: What do you call the AP-iOpener’s home on the web?
A: At the AP-iSite

Q: What do you call an angry AP-iOpener participant?
A: AP-iRate

Q: And if we have a party, what will it be called?
A: The AP-iBall, of course

If you’re not smiling at this point, you’re probably reading the wrong blog. :)