Daily Archives: July 10, 2006

Mashup University – Intel Mashup Demo. Making Mashups Mobile.

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After a tasty lunch it’s back to the mental grindstone. Intel introduces the creators of a mashup they built over the past few weeks. I’m not getting everybody here but he intros: Jeff Barr (Amazon), Mike Fisher and Ben (founders of Elephant Drive, an online backup and storage company). Sean Casey and — (Intel).

Elephant Drive outlines the demo task:

Identify a real business problem
Identify mashup enabler APIs
Show the code and demo

Problems – lost power and connectivity and ?

Intel’s Mobility SDK helps solve these and was easy to integrate. Ben introduces the code, which I’m pretending to grok right now using the classic developer conference intense-stare-and-nod-at-presenter-even-though-you-have-no-idea-what-
they-are-talking-about. I shall coin this as the WTF-DEV mode.

OK, they are now showing the very nice user interface which allows you to set threshold. When reached the application will pause things so you don’t lose data.

Mashup University – Apollo Project from Abobe

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A cross-OS runtime that allows devs to leverage existing skills with Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax.

This really looks promising, as it has the potential to combine a lot of disparate elements?  But yikes – not out until 2007?  That’s forever in Internet dog mashup years.    Can’t wait to ask Adam from Google what he thinks about these developer tools.

Apollo Article

HTML +/or FLASH +/or other stuff = Apollo applications?

Dev builds application which *works everywhere*. Kind of a Flash model BUT won’t they have to get everybody to install runtime stuff? Again, I worry about indexing. Flash remains a pesky and risky addition to any site – will Apollo aps index properly? I’d guess nobody can tell yet though it’s a great question for some of the Googlers that will be here at Mashup Camp.

Mashup University – Adobe KIWI project, ActionScript Libraries

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Adobe Kiwi Project. Kiwi Project Blog

How can we pull protocols and standards into FLEX? How to build a different kind of mashup.
Note taking application demo…..<< demo connection down >> This always makes me feel better because I used to spend so many hours setting up travel internet demos and even after all the work you’d still have some problems. Even here in the heart of Silicon Valley the internet … still has shortcomings.

Hey, good job with a composed resurrection of his connection and presentation…

but…I’m lost.

As a non-developer it’s often hard to know if I’m lost due to stupidity or just being unfamiliar with the particular application background and/or code to understand.

I think usually the case is that the presenters are SO familiar with the background and their own tools and acronyms that most presentations to developers are accessed by only a few who have experience with the tools.

ActionScript 3 APIs libraries – he’s not got much time to describe … go here to find them.

After comments by search engines about the difficulties indexing FLASH elements I’m concerned that Adobe is not thinking broadly enough about how the FLEX development will index properly. Ultimately search indexing is the key to the success of most web based projects so I’d like to see a LOT more concern about how hard it still is to get FLASH properly indexed. Could FLEX projects wind up stranded due to heavy reliance on intergrating the presentation with FLASHesque items?

UPDATE: They think FLEX will solve some of the Flash indexing problems, since FLEX output is in HTML form.

Mashup University

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I’m at the Adobe FLEX presentation at Mashup U here in Mountain View. He’s talking alot about Flash, I think to make the case that FLEX adoption will be rapid and deep, which I assume is what most developers want to see to justify the learning time.

Thanks to Microsoft sponsoring a free espresso cart I’m already…. awake and alert.

The intro referenced John Musser’s excellent resource Programmable Web which is the best Mashup information site online.

I count only about 50 people here at the university, though they expect about 350 at the main event Wednesday and Thursday.

Dave from Toronto told me that they’ve got an active “Demo Camp” going up there that meets monthly, with about 100 people.    They showcase projects and network.    I’m beginning to think that these “camp” events are the future of how computer people stay informed and connected.