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Tagged with “data” (14)

1. The Hacker’s Guide to the Galaxy

   Don’t panic: the next big science revolution isn’t just for asteroid miners or CERN scientists.

   Just as science fiction has often shown the way to future inventions, the act of hacking is now generating prototypes that act as footholds for future explorations, discoveries and epiphanies in science. This presentation takes you on a tour of our universe (from black holes and dark matter to exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and shows you how you can actively explore the final frontier through getting excited and making things.

   http://2012.dconstruct.org/conference/waldman/

   Ariel Waldman is the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. She also organises Science Hack Day San Francisco, an event that brings together scientists, technologists, designers and people with good ideas to see what they can create in one weekend.

   Spotting a theme here? Ariel is mad about science and does everything she can to make it more accessible to everyone.

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2012 data twitter:user=arielwaldman

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct 8 months ago

2. Designing for the Coral Reef

   Can you build a successful website that nobody ever has to visit?

   Feeds, APIs, widgets, Facebook apps, mobile and instant messaging mean that there are many ways for users to interact with a service without them having to visit the main website. When we first talked about building Dopplr, we wanted give users more choice about how they get their information into and out of the application. In this talk, we’ll describe how the site at dopplr.com is just one manifestation of a many-headed Internet service. We’ll talk about how this affects the user interface design and the data modeling, and how it strengthens the relationship between designer and developer.

   http://2008.dconstruct.org/podcast/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2008 data social networks interaction design code dopplr matt jones matt biddulph twitter:user=mattb twitter:user=moleitau

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

3. Social Network Portability

   Why is it that every single social network community site makes you re-enter all your personal profile info (name, email, birthday, URL etc.) and re-add all your friends? With new social networks being launched nearly every week, the problem of social network fatigue has gone from being a geeky early adopter problem to being much more widespread.

   This talk will discuss the problems and the goals of social network portability, as well as looking at the latest open data formats, techniques and recipes that sites are using to connect to the open social web.

   http://2008.dconstruct.org/podcast/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2008 networks social data code microformats book:author=tantek çelik twitter:user=t

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

4. The Urban Web

   Drawing on the story of disease and urban terror from his 2006 bestseller, The Ghost Map, Johnson will launch dConstruct with a keynote address on the information networks that form on the sidewalks and public spaces of urban life. He’ll examine the many ways that those social systems are migrating to the emerging platform of the geoweb. The rise of location-aware devices and increasingly mainstream geotagging presents an unique opportunity to unite the real and virtual worlds, and bring new life to the troubled newspaper industry. But that opportunity is going to require innovative new tools for navigating the geoweb, which the keynote will explore in some detail — including a first look at some new projects under development at outside.in.

   http://2008.dconstruct.org/podcast/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2008 location social data networks book:author=steven johnson twitter:user=stevenbjohnson

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

5. Designing for a Web of Data

   Design patterns for brochureware and editorial sites are well-established. In fact, they’re so simple and formulaic that even waterfall development processes can churn them out. A producer has an idea, a designer mocks it up in Photoshop and then client side types and engineers go all agile on its ass.

   But what happens when you’re pushing into web apps or social media? What happens when an absence of heirarchy makes left-hand navigation redundant? What do you do when design practice blurs into URLs and data structures, and where your service breaks the frame of the browser and starts appearing in hardware, in desktop applications or on other people’s sites?

   In this session, Tom will talk about new literacies that designers need to build things that are native to a web of data, the blurring and interplay between designers and developers and what it means to rapidly iterate in small multi-disciplinary teams to find the heart and soul of a new concept.

   http://2007.dconstruct.org/podcast/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2007 data process networks tom coates twitter:user=tomcoates

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

6. Mash My Flex Up

   Can you ever go back to Ajax once you Web 2.0 with Flex 2.0?

   The Flex 2 framework and the Eclipse-based Flex Builder 2 IDE provide you with a superior development workflow for creating web applications. You can create rich user interfaces quickly by using features such as data binding, application states, custom components, effects, and transitions.

   Join Aral Balkan, the Lone Ranger of the Flash Platform at dConstruct, as he shows you how easy it is to use open data, consume web services and create mashups in Flex 2 by using open source ActionScript 3 libraries for Flickr, Mappr, Odeo, and YouTube.

   Warning: This session may alter your preconceptions about the Flash Platform.

   http://2006.dconstruct.org/podcast/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2006 code data api flash flex twitter:user=aral

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

7. The Joy of API

   Over the course of dConstruct, you’re going to hear plenty about APIs from the people providing them: Yahoo!, Amazon, etc. But why should you, as a developer, be interested?

   Come on a journey with Jeremy Keith as he describes how much fun can be had from hacking around with open data. Listen to his experiences of experimenting with mashups. Find out how Web Services can rekindle the passion in your code.

   After some initial foreplay describing the differences between REST and SOAP, join Jeremy as he penetrates some code. Soon you’ll be swinging with Amazon, Flickr, and Google Maps.

   http://2006.dconstruct.org/podcast/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2006 code data api book:author=jeremy keith twitter:user=adactio

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

8. Web Services for Fun and Profit

   Over the last year the Yahoo! Developer Network has opened up dozens of sites and services to external software developers, with APIs for Yahoo! Search, Flickr, del.icio.us, Yahoo! Maps, and many others. More recently Yahoo! has started adopting microformats on Yahoo! Local and upcoming.org.

   Simon and Paul will be peeking behind the Yahoo! firewall, showing how these services are created and discussing some of the lessons learned in releasing them to the public. They will also show how a company can make use of web services internally to solve real-world technical problems, encourage innovation, and make work more enjoyable.

   http://2006.dconstruct.org/podcast/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2006 code data yahoo twitter:user=simonw twitter:user=ph

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

9. Web Services: Fuelling Innovation and Entrepreneurship

   Web services are changing the fundamental nature of the web, as more and more companies offer their data for free. Rather than spending millions of dollars on complicated systems, entrepreneurs can tap into the existing services of companies like Amazon, and create innovative new enterprises for a fraction of the cost; enterprises that wouldn’t have been economical otherwise. In this session, Amazon Web Services Evangelist, Jeff Barr, will discuss the power of open APIs and how they are helping to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship. Jeff will discuss Amazon’s motivation for building AWS and some of the design decisions (such as their use of XSLT) they made along the way. Jeff will touch on some of Amazon’s current offerings such as S3 and the Mechanical Turk, before showing demonstrations of how these services are being used in the wild.

   http://2006.dconstruct.org/schedule/

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   Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2006 code data business amazon api

   —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

10. backstage.bbc.co.uk

    Ben Metcalfe, Project Lead for the BBC’s developer network backstage.bbc.co.uk, talked about how the corporation is encouraging and supporting grassroots developers who want to remix its content into their projects.

    http://2005.dconstruct.org/

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    Tagged with dconstruct dconstruct2005 code data bbc backstage development api twitter:user=dotben

    —Huffduffed by dConstruct one year ago

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