This was a session by Matt Jones (Dopplr) and Tom Coates (Yahoo! Brickhouse / fire eagle) on the past, present, and future of “data portability” and other ways in which users experience and give access to their personal data. They discussed a lot of interesting design patterns that are fundamental to our current phase of innovation. These are interactions and metaphors that don’t always come to mind when people think of the superficial aspects of Web 2.0. Rough notes after the jump.
This was a session by Alex Payne (Twitter) and Michal Migurski (Stamen Design, who did the Digg Labs apps) on their experiences designing, implementing, and scaling APIs. My rough notes are after the jump.
I’m hanging out at the web2.0 conference, this week, checking out occasional sessions and schmoozing. Instructables is doing free laser etching on the conference floor for your laptop/phone/genitalia.
I’m also doing a web2Open (the un-conference running parallel to the main one) session tomorrow afternoon at 12:50PM called “Coding Lazy.” It will be all about how Instructables uses tags to model Javascript dependencies in the client, and how that allows us to code at full speed while procrastinating on proper factoring and optimization for as long as possible. Stop by if you’re interested!
2.009 Product Engineering Processes - MIT's undergraduate competition for reuse, recycling, and development yielded some interesting entries, including a solar-powered bottle sorter, shea nut grinder, and insulation panels made from PET bottles. (posted by nagutron on 2008-01-03T19:19:10Z))
NodeBox | Home - Generate 2D visuals using Python. Beautiful stuff. Check out the Andren illuminated scripts and Evolution. From Watson. (posted by nagutron on 2007-12-11T06:59:50Z))
Ponoko - Ponoko is an interesting site: Rapid fabrication, user-contributed. Kind of like a CafePress for furniture and toys. This links to a nice-looking side table. (posted by nagutron on 2007-11-29T02:12:05Z))
