Videos in category Web 2.0

Summary Jnan Dash makes an introduction to enterprise RIA and of Curl, an enterprise RIA platform similar to Flash/Flex. He presents 4 examples of successful Curl implementations and the advantages of Curl over the other RIA solutions. Bio Jnan Dash worked 10 years at Oracle as Group VP, Systems Architecture and Technology. Prior to joining Oracle in 1992, he spent 16 years at IBM in various po...

Summary This presentation is a collection of five fifteen-minute mini-keynotes (called post-it notes) presented at the Glue conference in Denver, 2009. All presentations focused on aspects of "gluing together" web applications, with Fulkerson talking about WOA, and most of the others presenting various ideas about identity and sharing / assuring identity across sites and applications. Bio Aaron...

Summary This presentation explores the issue of context automation, the forces driving it (clouds, extensible browsers, internet identities) and then focuses on issues of identity and how identity services augment context and facilitate using features of the cloud and extensible browsers to provide a richer and more secure user experience. Bio Phil Windley is the Founder and CTO of Kynetx. He i...

Summary Dion Hinchcliffe is an advocate of Web 2.0 and the Web Oriented Architecture. He explains how a mindset shift helped some companies be very successful using the Web 2.0 model while others have failed. He also considers that eventually most companies will migrate to WOA because we are living in an increasingly networked world. Bio Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized busines...

Today’s data-intensive Web 2.0 and cloud computing data centers face soaring costs and data growth. But advances in flash memory, multi-core processors, and low-latency interconnect have failed to address these mounting challenges. Learn how next-generation data access appliances integrate these new technologies to enable growth and cut costs. John Busch Schooner Information Technology Dr...

Summary In this keynote, Mitch Kapor, looks back at disruptive technologies, like the PC, and derives insights which he then uses to project a possible future for the Web, including the "social web," 'data scarcity and data abundance," and "startups on the cheap. Bio Mitchell Kapor is a pioneer of the personal computing revolution as an entrepreneur, software designer, activist, and investor. H...

Summary Facebook offers an open standards platform for creating social network applications. Josh Elman discusses the concept of social networking and how the Facebook platform addresses issues of identity, of social graphing, and sharing (via its Open Stream API). His presentation explored the nature of a social graph and the "virtuous cylcle of sharing." Bio Josh Elman is a Platform Program M...

This is the standard definition version of the fancy frames tutorial. This is my first tutorial so all your honest feedback will be deeply appreciated and go a long way to me serving you better content. In this Tutorial I will show you how to jazz up your images in photoshop with some fancy web 2.0 style frames. What I didnt mention in the tutorial is you can add a bit of highlighting to your p...

Summary Software architecture has become heavily influenced in recent years by the largest software system in the world: The Web. While the foundations of much of what we understand about software architecture haven't changed, the living laboratory of the Web has created a steady and impressive stream of innovations and ideas that are just now being fully appreciated. Questions such as how to d...

Come learn about Microformats and why we built the Oomph toolkit to make it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. Also hear how you can get more involved with Microformats. Tim Aidlin Tim Aidlin came to Microsoft with years of freelance and agency experience in the Seattle area, designing next-generation consumer and e-commerce websites. Now a UX Designer for MIX Online, with his t...