Dead Dead Dead, App Inventor no longer hosted by Google

Google kills another useful tool, and focuses on Google +puss, er Plus

I woke up to this email:
“Dear App Inventor User,

As we announced on the App Inventor Announcement Forum, Google will end support for App Inventor on December 31, 2011, after which data in appinventorbeta.com will not be accessible and will be deleted from Google servers.  You can preserve your App Inventor projects by simply clicking on the Download All Projects button on your My Projects page.  This will download to your computer a zipped archive of all your projects.  We recommend you retrieve your projects well before December 31st.

By the end of 2011 Google will also be making the complete App Inventor source code publicly available under an open source license, so that anyone can study the code and modify it as they desire.

In order to ensure the future success of App Inventor, Google has funded the establishment of a Center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab.  Sometime in the first quarter of 2012, the Center plans to provide an App Inventor service for general public access, similar to the one Google is currently running.

In order for you to continue working with your projects in an open source instance (MIT or otherwise) of App Inventor you will need to download your data from appinventorbeta.combefore December 31st and later upload them to an open source instance as it becomes available.

Please visit the App Inventor user forums to get future updates on App Inventor.  You can also visit http://mobilelearning.mit.edu/ for updates on what is being done with App Inventor at MIT.

The App Inventor Team”

OH Google! You never cease to amaze us! You have removed more functionality  (see: wonder wheel, etc…) that we all love to use. Your charm is starting to wear thin. I personally have shifted the bulk of my searches (personal anyway) into Blekko and Bing (because its just so nice to use, although the results do need some serious work). And for anyone interested in this, I have it on GOOD authority from the source that Intel has all but shut down the department responsible for GoogleTV, that is as dead as Rasputin my friends. Well enough with the rumor mill, thought we could do with some updating about the search engine we are all forced to play with, at least for now. For those interested in continuing to use that fun tool, MIT posted this about App Inventor

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