Web Directions

Presentations about mashups

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David Peterson — Semantic web for distributed social networks

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• By: jessie
• June 19, 2008
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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 2.40pm.

Hear how Drupal, Semantic MediaWiki and other bleed­ing edge tech were enlisted along with pixie dust, FOAF, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Linked Data (basi­cally all the Semantic Web stuff) to build a dis­trib­uted social net­work. The focus will be not on evan­ge­lism (I don’t really care about that) but how dis­parate open source plat­forms can talk and work together. This stuff actu­ally works and makes devel­op­ment more fluid. These tech­nolo­gies make local devel­op­ment eas­ier, but when it is time to broaden your scope, clas­sic search is still king. How can you lever­age this? Newcomers such as Yahoo Searchmonkey can play an impor­tant role in the cre­ation of a truly dis­trib­uted infor­ma­tion system.

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Jenny Telford — Opening up government data

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• By: Maxine
• March 10, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.

Mapping and other mashups have taken the web world by storm — dri­ving inno­va­tion in busi­ness and gov­ern­ment alike. While much of the focus has been on the actual mashup appli­ca­tions, with­out the data to mashup, we have no mashups. Government, from local to Federal level, col­lect and man­age a sig­nif­i­cant amount of data, across a very broad range of areas. But giv­ing access to this data to web appli­ca­tion devel­op­ers has tech­ni­cal, pol­icy and legal chal­lenges. In this pre­sen­ta­tion, Jenny Telford of the ABS looks at these issues from their expe­ri­ence of open­ing up data from the Australian Census.

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Kaitlin Sherwood & Steffen Meschkat — The Business and Technology of Mashups

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• By: jessie
• January 22, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007.

Mashups are the hottest web devel­op­ment topic today. Hear about the front-​​end, back-​​end, and busi­ness issues of mashups with these two experts who know more about them than just about anyone.

Kaitlin Sherwood: Overview of Maps Mashup Technologies

In the past two years, there has been an explo­sion of tools for con­vey­ing geo­graphic infor­ma­tion to the masses. In this talk, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood will intro­duce major con­cepts and issues, and dis­cuss the pros and cons of each of the major mashup frame­works. Attendees will gain an appre­ci­a­tion for their map­ping options, and infor­ma­tion to help them bet­ter choose between them based on their par­tic­u­lar needs.

Steffen Meschkat

A cen­tral topic of “Web 2.0” is browser-​​side web appli­ca­tion pro­gram­ming inter­faces (APIs) and the spe­cific type of web appli­ca­tion they give rise to: mashups.

Using the Google Maps API as an exam­ple, I put this devel­op­ment into a per­spec­tive that allows one to appre­ci­ate how this, on the one hand, is a nat­ural and coher­ent evo­lu­tion of the Web that, on the other hand, sig­nif­i­cantly alters the ways of orga­niz­ing the world’s infor­ma­tion that the Web makes pos­si­ble. I also dis­cuss the spe­cific tech­nolo­gies that web APIs for mashups are based upon, and their some­times chal­leng­ing idiosyncrasies.

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Craig Saila & Adrian Holovaty — Old Media, New Technology

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• By: jessie
• January 19, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007.

Web based dis­tri­b­u­tion is chang­ing the nature of estab­lished author­i­ties like newsprint and television.

As tra­di­tional media declines, the rel­e­vance of their online brands con­tin­ues to grow in both rev­enue and traf­fic. All of this is lead­ing to a rad­i­cal restruc­tur­ing of how the main­stream media sees itself, and how it oper­ates. From the sur­pris­ingly quick adop­tion of blogs, RSS, and other tech­nolo­gies that fall under the “Web 2.0” label, there are many dis­cus­sion points about what is work­ing, and what isn’t.

In this ses­sion, two experts work­ing at the inter­sec­tion of the web and newsprint will dis­cuss how this change is occur­ring. They will be look­ing at the fal­lac­ies built into online adver­tis­ing and tra­di­tional met­rics which don’t map to how the new Web operates.

They’ll also explore the matur­ing online land­scape and how tra­di­tional media now face a frag­mented mar­ket, pop­u­lated by strong Web brands that offer gen­uine com­pe­ti­tion through their inno­va­tion and nimbleness.

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Raul Vera — Mashups, web apps and APIs

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• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Hear all about the excit­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties cre­ated by these tech­nolo­gies from Google Australia.

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