Awesome Speakers at Refresh06
If you feel like attending a conference and then having some fun in the sun, head down to the Refresh Web Standards conference in Orlando on November 16-18. I enjoy attending our local monthly Refresh Miami Meetings so this full blow-out should rock. Check out the list of speakers:
- Paul Boag
- Andy Budd
- Brian Fling
- Jeremy Keith
- Nate Koechley
- Cameron Moll
For fellow refreshers and blog readers, Phil hooked me up with this discount link. Registration has been reduced to $299 for us. And if I get enough people to mention Web 2.0 Show in the notes during registration, I will get a press pass to cover the event!
(I apologize to our loyal readers for the cross post on all my blogs.)
Ever since the very successful Yahoo! Hack Day last fall there’s been rumors about an API for Yahoo! Mail, the leading web mail service with over a quarter-billion users. And today it’s official: the Yahoo! team announced the Yahoo! Mail API.
You can see our new Yahoo! Mail API profile here.
Earlier today I spoke with […]
After a year and a half of using social applications heavily, I recently had to revisit the plan to aggregate all my activity into one data stream. As the calendar rolled to 2007, I kept wishing I could look at all my social activity from 2006 in context: time, date, type of activity, location, memory, information interest, and so on. What was I bookmarking, blogging about, listening to, going to, and thinking about? I still had the urge to have an information and online activity mash-up that would allow me to discover my own patterns and to share my activity across the web in one chronological stream of data (to start with anyway).
The Integration of Work, Play, Learning, and Inspiration
“During the Renaissance, when everything, including life itself, was subjected to analysis, life itself was disassembled into what were considered fundamental but independent activities: work, play, learning, and inspiration.
Institutions were created in which each activity could be carried out independently. Factories were designed for work, not play, learning, or inspiration. Theaters and arenas were […]