November 29, 2007

MashUp Camp -- Dublin

On November 10-12th, people descended onto Dublin, Ireland for MashUp Camp. We sent our very own Chad Dickerson & Tom Hughes-Croucher to the streets to ask people if they knew what a "mash-up" was. Watch the video to see what they found:

Mashup Camp -- a.k.a The Unconference for the Uncomputer is an unconference-style event that's dedicated to bringing together the Internet software mashup community for a face-to-face collaborative meetup where new relationships are formed, old relationships are nurtured, ideas are shared, multiple balls are moved forward, and innovation happens in real-time.

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November 26, 2007

David Weinberger - Keynote @ Defrag Con

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a 2007 book by American technologist and commentator David Weinberger. In it, he describes the evolution of the classification of information and information science, as the Internet becomes a widespread part of people’s lives.

Mr. Weinberger gave the keynote at the recent Defrag and we have it here for you to watch:

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November 19, 2007

The 9 gets hacked to 11!!!!

"Bangalore. Berkeley. Boston. London. Palo Alto. Dundee. Manila. Pasadena. Pittsburgh. Sunnyvale. Champaign-Urbana. Seoul."

Words to a song by the immortal Johnny Cash? Nope. Stops on Beck's next world tour? Hardly. Places you can get a really great cup of espresso? You're getting warmer. What do all these places have in common? We've gone there for Hack Day.

Here with the scoop from Bangalore is our own Maria Sansone, taking the 9 to 11, just this once....

Over the last couple of years we've been struck by lightning, hacked by naughty puppets, and overwhelmed at every turn by the sheer ingenuity of our participants. We've seen a ton of hacks, from the sublime to the ridiculous, but we're pretty sure we haven't seen them all. So keep an eye on hackday.org and the University Hack Day page ... your turn to play will come.

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November 15, 2007

Interviews at Defrag: Pierre Wielezynski | World Bank.org

The World Bank has developed the BuzzMonitor, an open source application that "listens" to what people are saying about the World Bank across blogs and other sites in order to help the organization understand and engage in social media. Jeremy sat down with Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski at Defrag and talked about how the World Bank is using this as a tool for non-profit organizations, NGOs, foundations and think-tanks to see and hear what people are saying about them, their programs and understand the perception around important issues.

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November 14, 2007

Defrag Sponsor Challenge - Jeremy Zawodny

Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the internet-based tools that transform loads of information into layers of knowledge, and accelerate the “aha” moment. Defrag is about the space that lives in between knowledge management, “social” networking, collaboration and business intelligence. Yahoo! Developer Network's Jeremy Zawodny was invited to speak about Defrag, here is what he had to say:

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November 12, 2007

Experts @ Work: Eric Baldeschwieler

This week's episode of Experts @ Work with Jeremy Zawodny, we sit down with Eric Baldeschwieler, who leads a team of engineers at Yahoo! that has spent the last 18 months enhancing the Hadoop open source project to run on thousands of computers. They have supported a large community of internal users of Hadoop on shared clusters. Eric has lead large scale infrastructure projects to support web search and other activities at Yahoo! and Inktomi since 1996.

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November 12, 2007

Interviews at Defrag: Dick Hardt

Jeremy Zawodny sits down with Dick Hardt, CEO and founder of Sxip Identity, but to his staff he's the bartender. Jeremy discusses identity and talks a bit about Perl:

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November 12, 2007

Interviews at Defrag: Phil Windley

While at Defrag, we sat down with Dr. Phil Windley, a nationally recognized expert in using information technology (IT) to add value to business. He regularly consults with businesses on this topic and is particularly interested in the areas of interoperability, web services, XML, and digital identity.

Jeremy Zawodny sits down for a chat and talks about identity, DeFrag, and other topics:

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November 8, 2007

Under the sink with Pipes

Pipes, a tool that lets people with limited technical expertise mash-up any data on the Internet and make it their own. We take you behind-the-scenes to meet the folks on the Pipes team.

The music featured in this video is available physically here:
http://www.merchline.com and digitally here: http://tychomusic.com

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November 5, 2007

Experts @ Work: Steve Souders

Our first webisode in our "Experts @ Work" series, we sit down with Steve Souders who works at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. As part of his work, Steve has developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains these best practices along with the research and hands-on results that went into them.

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