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January 25, 2007
Mashup Camp 3 report
Another Mashup Camp is past, and good time was had by all. Nate and I met some fascinating people who are working on some impressive projects. Notable among them:
- Long-time Eventful friends Taylor McKnight and Daniel Westermann-Clark of Podbop fame, returning to Mashup Camp after an absence. As promised, we followed Taylor around until we (and by "we" I mean "I") got too tired to continue.
- Anthony Volodkin of The Hype Machine and Chris Marstall of tourfilter, which won first and second place in the Best Mashup contest respectively. We got a chance to have a few drinks with them along with other music folks.
- John Herren, geek extraordinaire and hardware masher, who was joined by Liz Herren this time. She had her Web 2.0 "Aha" moment at Mashup Camp, so now she's going to start her own blog.
- Jon Aizen from Dapper, a fun new way to generate an API for Web sites that don't have them. I didn't see the demonstration myself, but Nate put together a scraper for
popular music promotion service in about 4 minutes. - Kevin Lawver from AOL, who had good things to say about microformats and the future of Web widgets (and wore some awesome t-shirts, too).
...and a whole host of others, of course. There were so many good conversations everywhere, it would be difficult to list everyone.
We also got a chance to show off our pet side-project Gigul8r, of which I'll say more in a later post. Suffice it to say that it won 4th place in the Best Mashup Contest and was named Mashup of the Day at ProgrammableWeb:
Mashup Camp 4 will be in Mountain View this summer, and they're already accepting registrations. We're definitely looking forward to being there.
Posted by chris at 12:11 PM