Category: Papers and Talks (Page 5 of 5)

Smarten Up Your Address Book with a Plaxo Mashup
Mashup University (part of Mashup Camp 2)
Mountain View, CA (Computer History Museum)
July 12, 2006

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Watch the complete video of my talk (QT, 78MB)

Plaxo sponsored me to give a talk at the beginning of MashupCamp2 (alongside speakers from Microsoft, AOL, and Intel) during its new “Mashup University” section. I talked about the Plaxo widget and our APIs and why they’re a useful ingredient for many sites. MashupCamp itself was also great fun, and it made me a strong believer in the style of un-conferences (where the schedule is formed ad-hoc by the participants when the conference starts), something I’ve since used at Plaxo to cut down on scheduling meetings. Rather than trying to get on everyone’s calendar, we just reserve Tuesday afternoons for an internal unconference we call Meataxo (yes, the spelling is intentional–we had to do something to make the idea of a meeting marathon sound fun :)).

I’ve covered my talk at MashupU in more detail on Plaxo’s blog, and Joe “Duck” Hunkins also wrote a great summary.

Cross-Site Ajax: Challenges and Techniques for Building Rich Web 2.0 Mashups
O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2006
Portland, OR
July 26, 2006

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This was the first OSCON I ever attended. I had a great time and I met a lot of amazing people. I’m definitely going back next year. Much of what I discussed in the talk came from work I did on the Plaxo widget, and the point of this talk was to share the techniques I’d learned and also to raise awareness and debate of the larger issues and privacy/technology tradeoffs involved. I’ve covered this talk in more detail on Plaxo’s blog (thanks Plaxo for sending me!). Kevin Yank also blogged a summary of the talk.