Videos tagged with Web 2.0

Summary After an introduction to XMPP, Jack Moffitt presents Strophe, a library for writing XMPP clients, and he demonstrates sample code showing how to program against it. Bio Jack Moffitt works on real time search applications based on XMPP and Web technologies using JavaScript, Erlang, and Python. Previously he created Chesspark, an online game community build on top of XMPP, led the team be...

Get hip to the meaning behind web 2.0 memesEver feel lost because you don't know what a "serious cat" or a "failboat" is? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica will help assure that you never feel out of the loop again with Know Your Meme.

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...