Mashup Camp
It was cool to meet people from Google, Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft and individuals like John Herren (invented Tag Clouds), David Berlind (writes for ZDNet) and many more. Here are some random notes
Here is what happened and some of the sessions have notes describing what was discussed and decided. - MashupU5schedule
Some interesting insights into data-mining - Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists
you know when ticketmaster asks you to prove that you aren’t a computer - how about using this instead hot or not photos as a captcha
Chad Dickerson: How to make a Kegerator with FAQ
Chad also went on to describe the Flickr APIs, YUI, Del.ici.ous, YSlow and 14 rules (specific and practical) for making web-pages load faster
Maryrose announced o2 sponsorship of 20 Irish entries into the Webby Awards and also have a look at www.webbys4ireland.com
The social part of the MashUp Camp was spent partly in the Porterhouse, Templebar
David Berlind sums up his experience on ZDNet: Ireland: Where the soul of the developer can be found
Nullcheck is a media/financial news developer who gives a good commentary on each session in MashUp Camp: mashup camp Dublin: Day 1 and end of mashup camp
The Microsoft perspective: Mashup Camp Europe!
This book comes highly recommended - Programming Collective Intelligence
Also Chad found this page Why Guinness tastes better in Ireland
April 14th, 2008 at 12:04 am
[...] so the after effects of the first European Mashup Camp will effect my thinking as well as meeting interesting people and presenters. Also being surprised by some large companies joining the [...]