TweetIt’s taken me a couple of days to get my notes transcribed from Mashup Camp’s last speed geeking session, since I’ve spent the weekend frolicking around in San Francisco. I really have to learn to do this before I kill all my brain cells on a weekend… I saw many less speed geeking sessions than [...]
TweetTaking a break from the sessions just before lunch; there’s nothing that I want to go to right now, and this gives me a chance to catch up on my notes from yesterday’s speed geeking before today’s session starts after lunch. Keep in mind that each session was a maximum of six minutes longer (shorter if [...]
TweetI’m in a session on automating the discovery and consumption of web services to create mashups. Coming from the enterprise integration side, lots of this stuff is pretty familiar to me: using a directory service (e.g., UDDI) to discover service providers in both the corporate SOA and internet web services (SOAP, REST, AJAX, XML-RPC, JSON, [...]
TweetBest Mashup Camp quote: “music is to mashups as porn was to the internet: it’s what drives it”. I’m in the session on “Mashing” client-side mashup tools, where Jason Cooper from Google is demonstrating a mashup called Jookebox that he created using multiple Yahoo Pipes, such as one to retrieve album tracks from Amazon, assembled [...]
TweetThis was really Chris Radcliff’s bitch session on why don’t people just use the Eventful API instead of writing their own event functionality over and over again but we discussed a number of interesting points that have analogies in any development environment: Why people write their own functions even if something exists: Discoverability, that is, [...]
TweetMy speed notes from the speed geeking sessions are all on paper, so I’ll have to transcribe them later. In the meantime, however, I’m at the next session on enterprise mashups. This was a bit slow-moving; I blame that on the post-lunch energy dip and the frenzy of speed-geeking that wore everyone out. We talked [...]
TweetAnother vendor-proposed session (Plaxo), but no formal presentation and not at all around Plaxo’s stuff so not really commercial at all. The issue is all the multiple unlinked social networks to which we all belong, most of which aren’t open to data extraction or mashup in any way. For example, Facebook will link to a [...]
TweetSince sponsors are allowed to propose sessions, AOL proposed a session on feed mashups where they gave a short presentation/demo of their new customizable portal page (comparable to Netvibes or iGoogle) that also includes Mgnet, a way to do what they refer to as mashing up feeds, although it appears to be feed aggregation and [...]
TweetA slow start, in spite of the announced 8:30am start time, and a smaller crowd than I remember from last year’s Mashup Camps, but a few familiar faces and lots of enthusiasm in a low-key sort of way. Like every unconference that I’ve been to, there’s a few minutes before the grid of sessions starts [...]
TweetI’m attending Mashup Camp on July 17th-18th, then staying on in the Bay area for the BPM Think Tank on the 23rd-25th. If you’re going to be at either of these, let me know or look me up when I’m there. Any suggestions for what to do in the intervening three days are welcome.
TweetSlightly against the spirit of a true unconference, the Mashup Camp scheduled for next month in Mountain View has gone commercial. From an email that I received late last week from David Berlind, one of the organizers: If you’re a Mashup Camp veteran, the you know that Mashup Camp and Mashup University have traditionally been [...]
TweetMashup Camp 4 is scheduled for July 18-19, back in Silicon Valley. I’m at the BPM Think Tank in San Francisco the following week, so I’ll just stay out there for the duration and enjoy the weekend between in San Francisco. Message to David Berlind: we really need to talk about a Mashup Camp in Toronto. [...]
TweetI’ve decided not to attend Mashup Camp 3 in Boston next week, in part because I just got back from a month vacation and have a ton of things to do (like this weekend’s Enterprise Camp here in Toronto), and in part because I missed the window for cheap flights and I’m not willing to [...]
TweetI received an invitation this week for Mashup Camp 3, and have signed up to attend this east coast version on January 17th and 18th at MIT. There’s also Mashup University for the two preceding days, and it’s all free. Sign up online now if you’re interested, spots will likely go quickly. You can find [...]
TweetDavid Berlind is wrapping up the whole conference now, and we’re all anxiously awaiting the announcement of the “best mashup” winners. He made a few comments on the wiki and how it will continue to evolve, especially over the next few days while people finish up the last few notes and also continue the discussions [...]
TweetDecision time. I have one wooden nickel to spend, and five mashups that I really like: ChunkLove, a gift registry finder that was created when the author’s sister complained that she had a number of friends getting married and no way to track all the different stores where they were registered for gifts. You enter [...]
Tweet“We can just hack that together” has been the rallying cry for mashups for a long time already, before the word “mashup” ever hit the scene, and Cameron Jones led us in the last breakout session of the conference to look at how mashups can be used for prototyping applications. He’s doing Ph.D. research on [...]
TweetTom Ortega from eBay led a discussion on internal mashups (mashups within closed corporate walls). Like me, he sees mashups and SOA as two ends of the same spectrum, so there were a lot of things that they’re doing internally that are somewhere in between the hair-on-fire mashups that we’re seeing here at camp, and [...]
TweetI used the “law of two feet” (also known as “quietly slipping out the back door when you’re bored”) and am now in a session showing a mashup between Google Maps and Google Calendar. I’m probably the only geek on the face of the earth who hasn’t tried out Google Calendar, and I’d better try [...]
TweetTen minutes into the email mashups session, and there’s still an argument going on about whether this is about enterprise or consumer email (the description on the board said enterprise, which is why I’m here). Sigh. Maybe I’ll check the notes later to see if there’s anything interesting about microformats.
