Videos tagged with social networking

Google Tech Talk February 8, 2011 Presented by André Brock. ABSTRACT Popular conceptions of information technology revolve around feature sets, physical size, speed, and technocultural rhetoric about 'open' and 'closed' platforms. Unlike flashier consumer electronics, the humble web browser has become part of our cultural infrastructure, invisible to our communicative practices until a rupture ...

Google Tech Talk (more info below) July 13, 2011 Presented by Nick Stanhope. ABSTRACT This week, Historypin, a project developed by London non-profit We Are What We Do in partnership with Google, launched its new site and Android app. The project aims to being millions of people together around historical content and the stories and recollections behind it. The site and app enable users to pin ...

Google Tech Talk (more info below) August 17, 2011 Presented by Chas Salmen. ABSTRACT What do foreign fish species, solar-powered Internet, and social networking have to do with solving the HIV/AIDS crisis in Western Kenya? Chas will address this question and others in his tech talk. Microclinic International and the Organic Health Response (OHR) have partnered to spread "contagious health" sol...

Summary Jason Sobel presents the evolution of Facebook’s infrastructure over time, from the original LAMP stack to the present multi-datacenter configuration, the challenges faced and plans for the future. Bio Jason Sobel is an engineering manager on the Infrastructure team at Facebook where he focuses on keeping the site fast and scalable. He helped develop Facebook's multiple datacenter strat...

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...

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...

Summary In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe. Bio Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he helps manage the engineering team and oversees new product desig...

As content and services are delivered to customers in more locations, on more devices, users are expecting information to be more tailored to their context and more relevant not to just "What" they are looking for, but "Where". Microsoft's Alex Daley hosts this session exploring ways to reach customers with location relevant information, building richer experiences that make your site or applic...