I’m informed by local Ned that Chef Chus is the place to eat chinese here in Silicon Valley. Probably won’t have a chance to check it out this trip. Apparently Chef Chu also arranges trips to … China. Cool
Jeremy Z adds this suggestion:
Chef Chu’s is good food, but my personal favorite is the House Of Orient down in Campbell: http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=21557385
It’s rarely crowded (though it should be), prices are good, and service is reliable.
LignUp is demoing PropAlerts, which he says can beat MLS database by 48 hours to give users early warning of property listings. They also are working on Voice over IP to put users in touch with agents and using text to speech to … read alerts to users.
Why Voice Mashups? Communication as key element in biz process, significant revenue opportunities, more.
The Higgens Trust Framework is very promising way to standardize personal information for use across multiple platforms. Yikes – that sentence means I must be writing from Silicon Valley. If I was in Oregon I’d say it “tells programs who you are”.
I tend to agree with those that think filling out yet another form is a barrier to participation, though the upside of such things is that they provide an incentive to make sure the content / program you are signing up to use is worthy of your time and attention *before* you sign up. Will this openup a new plethora of junk applications just fishing for clicks?
Commendo.com‘s Voyager is an application that will:
“Assemble content in a different way in a personal library”. Experience in Enterprise Mashups. Look at web as a content repository for your personal use.
This looks really neat, though seems there may be challenges for turning this towards commercial use since the content you are nabbing is mostly copyrighted. HOWEVER, are they focusing on the developers creating a form of mashup API that is then distributed to others who are all using the content for personal use – clever and I think fully copyright cool. …I’m not sure if this is possible though and I don’t think it’s the key idea. They are geared to users not developers?
Allows personalization of the mashup and content experience.
Mashery will support developer networks. Six weeks old. They are just getting off the ground but will try to facilitate the use of all those APIs out there. “Creating a series of services to provide to API vendors”.
I’m not sure that logo is going to be understood by the whippersnapper generation who a) don’t cook much and b) don’t use a potato masher when they do. But I like it for the symbolism!
Clay, cofounder of Mashery and former feedster (programmer?), is showing us a mashed up blog demo “core” that can be skinned to other applications. However… “We are not a Wiki Company, we are here to enable …. cool web services”.
Here’s a brief on Mashery’s funding
This is a cool concept I think, but ..dudes… you need a better demo pitch for the main mashup camp!
OK, this is good stuff. Intel’s talking about mashups that utilize location awareness where the device knows where it is. This may have some really cool travel applications! They’ll be demoing some stuff and I’m anxious to talk more with them about ways to integrate deviceOspheric information – ie the world of data, now mostly wasted, that is flowing in from navigation devices and other hardware.
They are really asking for feedback about the types of APIs that run at the base level – ie sort of machine level – that address challenges like connectivity. For travel this might take the form of answering the following questions:
*Where am I located right now?
* Where is the blog/website/device located that has the information I need?
After the break it’s Jeff Barr from Amazon.com. (I missed the beginning where he may have coverdd some other stuff)…. Now he’s talking S3, Amazon’s super robust storage solution. Jeff’s presentations are always great because he’s a very good communicator as well as experienced technical guy. Jeremy Zawodny, Tim O’Reilly , and Matt Cutts are super impressive this way as well.
This short talk just focused on S3, but Jeff’s MIX06 talk was one of the best presentations I’ve attended in some time. He also has an interesting take on challenges facing Microsoft, where he used to work, but I’d ask him before I share those interesting nuggets of wisdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joe Duck 