End of the first day of Mashup Camp 2, and boy, is my brain tired! It was a great day of new ideas, debating opinions, seeing new cool stuff, and meeting new and old friends. After some wrapup comments, we moved on to the after-party, and also had a chance to see the exhibits at [...]
Like the profile data aggregation session, I didn’t know what I’d get out of this session on client-side customization, but found it interesting nonetheless. We had a discussion on the different types of customization: Change the style sheet of a page/site to provide a specific theme or look and feel. Add/remove/rearrange existing content, e.g., via [...]
Sarah Harmer’s done, and I’m on to President Alien. It really is getting late, I swear that this is my last post for the day. Or maybe my second last. Following the speed geeking, we had the breakout third session, and I attended the one on aggregating profile data. Although this was hijacked slightly at [...]
We started the afternoon with speed geeking, where each mashup developer set up on a table, and the rest of us circulated around spending 5 minutes at each table for a quick demo. There were 21 tables but only 10 timeslots, which made for a quick triage before I started out. We’re having another speed [...]
Veneer was great, but short, so I’m on to Sarah Harmer’s You Were Here. I’m starting to slow down — it’s was a long day of travel yesterday and a long day of idea generation today — so may not finish up all my posts today. The next session for me was AJAX design patterns, [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I had to do all my blogging today offline because of the spotty wifi in the Computer History Museum, and I have to say that Windows Notepad makes a pretty sucky offline blogging tool. However, I’m relaxing back in my room listening to the newly-downloaded and extremely enjoyable [...]
David Berlind started Mashup Camp 2 a bit after 9am (which is great for us east coasters, but probably early for the locals) with the logistics and agenda framework for the day. As with Mashup Camp 1, and any other unconference, there is no real agenda, just time slots and rooms where anyone who has [...]
Photos from both Mashup Camps are tagged on Flickr as mashupcamp. There’s already a number of new ones in there from the past two days of Mashup U (which I missed) and the party tonight. Check back for lots more over the next couple of days. Update: Some photos also tagged as mashupcamp2.
Or is that Mashup Camp 2.0? I’m back at the delightfully quirky Hotel Avante again, meeting up with some people who I met back at the original Mashup Camp in February, and starting to meet a bunch of new people. We’ll all be off to the Computer History Museum in the morning for the official [...]
Okay, I’m joking about the 2.0 nonsense, but I am headed for the second edition of Mashup Camp in two weeks to continue my investigations into using mashup methods and technologies to make enterprise integration more agile and less weighty. If you’re going to be there, look me up.
Before I went to Mashup Camp, I exchanged emails with Chris Radcliff of EVDB/Eventful, and it was great to meet him face-to-face at camp. EVDB makes an API for managing event, venue, and calendar data, and Eventful uses that API in an events/calendaring/social networking mashup of events submitted directly to Eventful plus those grabbed from [...]
The first of a series of posts on scrAPIs (which I commented on following Mashup Camp last week) by Thor Muller of Rubyred Labs. I’m looking forward to the rest of the series this week.
My wrapup of Mashup Camp wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the fabulous Computer History Museum in Mountain View where the event was held. Great venue, and the part of their collection that we were able to view during the party on Monday night was very nostalgic (although I can’t quite say that I miss RSX11M). [...]
I’m still wrapping my brain around some of the ideas that started in my head at Mashup Camp, but I’ve been having fun browsing through all of the photo-detritus of the event. I was surprised that I made the first photo in Valleywag’s coverage of the event, and Doc Searls caught me at the XDI [...]
That’s the thing about mashups, almost all of them are illegal I heard that (and unfortunately am unable to credit the source) in the “scrAPI” session at Mashup Camp, in which we discussed the delicate nature of using a site that doesn’t have APIs as part of a mashup. Adrian Holovaty of ChicagoCrime.org (my favourite [...]
Now that I’ve been disconnected from the fire hose of information that was Mashup Camp, I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on what I saw there. Without doubt, this is the future of application integration both on the public internet and inside the enterprise. But — and this is a big but — [...]
It’s the second day of Mashup Camp, and I’ve had zero time to blog about what’s going on here — much like everyone else here, so it seems. I’ll be posting my thoughts later this week, but in the meantime you can check out the other blog posts about Mashup Camp and look at the [...]
Attention, all you Mashup Camp attendees: go to Attendr to see a cool mashup example from Jeff Marshall that allows you to link to other attendees you already know or would like to meet. If you’re going to be at MashupCamp next week, be sure to look me up and say hi. As for the [...]
I listened to a podcast last week of David Linthicum interviewing Dion Hinchcliffe that really helped to coalesce my thoughts about mashups, Web 2.0, SOA, composite applications and the future of integration. I was walking along a street in downtown Toronto, listening to it on my iPod, and making enough facial expressions, hand gestures and [...]
I received yet another email about the upcoming Gartner BPM Summit, and I continue to be horrified by the price of conferences: U$1,895 for 3 days?! Or how about the AIIM records management conference in Toronto next week: C$2,899 for 3 days? By the time you add in travel and living, it’s no mean chunk [...]
