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While the first demo from The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) walked us through a scrapbook app on the Blackberry PlayBook, they also demoed what is possible when making use of the BlackBerry WebWorks Platform SDK. In other words, they basically built the application using HTML 5 and CSS, which is common on just about every webpage you visit. Anyone with a general interest and a few hours exploring the uses of HTML and CSS could create a similar app to this. That is the power and driving force behind the BlackBerry WebWorks Platform. Even with the basics, rich applications can be built such as the one in the video. Even though it's just a demo, I'm sure most will agree it looks pretty damn awesome.
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