March 11, 2008
Event: Mashup Camp 6
Tim Breidigan and I will be attending Mashup Camp 6 in Silicon Valley next week. If you have any interest in mashups, public APIs, social networking applications, widgets, or the future of the Web, this is one event you can't possibly miss. These have consistently been the best (un)conferences I've attended, and this new round of iPhone, Facebook, and OpenSocial apps should make things even more interesting.
Best of all, Mashup Camp 6 is absolutely free! So there's no reason not to sign up. Right now. Go on!
Posted by chris at 10:00 AM
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
December 05, 2006
Event: Mashup Camp 3
Nate Ritter and I will be attending Mashup Camp 3 in January. If you have any interest in mashups, public APIs, or the future of the Web, this is one event you can't possibly miss. The first two were the best (un)conferences I attended this year, and this time we get to feel the MIT vibe on top of it all.
We will also be presenting the Eventful API at Mashup University, the day before Camp starts. If you'll be around that day (even if you can't make it to the Camp itself), sign up for Mashup U and see our talk. I promise it will contain at least one robot, one pirate, and a whole bunch of monkeys!
Posted by chris at 04:05 PM
July 24, 2006
NPUC 2006
I'm at NPUC at the moment showing off a poster session about Eventful Demand (warning: 2MB PDF). Thanks to the power of the internets, you! are! there! (If by chance you really are there, feel free to download the poster for later perusal.)
Update: The conference was informative, if a bit surreal. All five speakers gave great presentations; so far Ross Mayfield's and Sam Ruby's have been posted online. My favorite was a demonstration of Chickenfoot, a browser automation tool (and keyword-based language) which could easily be turned into a ScrAPI generator for the everyman. Or something.
The surreal moments were due in part to the weather; the posters were set up next to a wall of windows, so that part of the room was uncomfortably hot. Mostly, though, I felt like the only Web 2.0 upstart in a room full of superintelligent computer luminaries. (Imagine perusing a poster on HCI and discovering you're standing next to Don Norman.) Still, it was an eye-opening experience and I'm glad we were invited. Thanks, Max!
Posted by chris at 01:30 PM | Comments (0)
July 20, 2006
Mashup Camp report, part 1
(Oh no, this means I've sunk to writing multi-part posts. Anything to get this out the door...)
Suffice it to say, Mashup Camp was most excellent. Bryan and I met some seriously impressive people there, the true leaders in the field. (In some cases, those leaders are 16 years old. More on that later.) It was also good to get updates from some familiar faces. The hallway conversations were fantastic, with interesting people to talk to from the start of breakfast to the end of dinner. (We had to sleep sometime.)
I presented a quick demo of PhoTiger, a mashup from Mashpit, and it got a great response from the folks who saw it during speedgeeking sessions. (Kinda like speed dating, but 4-on-1 and with a laptop. Or something.) Despite having some stiff competition, little PhoTiger got enough wooden nickels (votes) to win one of the third-place prizes. It wasn't the MacBook, but it was still a Major Award!
More to come. In the interim, photos of the event are available on Flickr.
Posted by chris at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)
July 11, 2006
Mashup Camp 2 Tomorrow
Bryan Monroe and I will be at Mashup Camp 2 on Wednesday and Thursday, so be sure to seek us out if you're attending. If you're not attending but you're in the Bay Area, check out the pre-party (courtesy of Dave Nielsen and StrikeIron) the night before. It's open to anyone.Posted by chris at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)
May 24, 2006
Web Services SIG was great!
Thanks to everyone who attended the Web Services SIG in San Jose last night. It was an outstanding event, and we talked about interesting (and technical) API stuff until 11pm. Dave Nielsen and I both posted photos from the event.
I promised to add the slides and source code here , and I will do so soon.
UPDATE: The slides and code are now available. Download the file and use your favorite ZIP archive program to unpack it. Simple instructions are included with the example code.
I also said this blog was at labs.eventful.com, which wasn't true until this morning. Hopefully that didn't lose anyone.
Posted by chris at 05:16 PM | Comments (1)
May 15, 2006
Event: May SDForum Web Services SIG
In the Bay Area? Free on the evening of May 23rd? Come see us in action and hear all the secrets of the EVDB API. Brian Dear and Chris Radcliff will present:
Building Apps with the EVDB API
at SDForum Web Services SIG
Tuesday, May 23rd at 6:30 pm
at eBay's Silicon Valley Conference Center
San Jose, California
This will be an in-depth technical discussion, not just another marketing talk. We're going to use the API to build an application, with plenty of time allotted to answer nuts-and-bolts questions about how things work. Hope to see you there!
Posted by chris at 02:02 PM | Comments (0)