Widget Summit 2008 Sessions
- Binary Messaging with AMF
- Transfer data securely and efficiently with the cross-platform ActionScript Messaging Format
- Ryan Stewart (Adobe)
- Geolocation-aware Widgets
- Apply smart filters based on location data
- Ryan Sarver (Skyhook Wireless), Chris Butler (Dash Navigation)
- Hardened Web Badges
- Write fast and efficient web badges using JavaScript expert tips.
- Kent Brewster (Yahoo!)
- High Performance Widgets
- Embrace the need for speed.
- Steve Souders (Google)
- iPhone Developer Panel
- Learn about iPhone development from successful implementors.
- Tom Conrad (Pandora Media), Sunil Verma (Mobclix), Brian Fling (Fling Media), Dom Sagolla (DollarApp)
- Lessons Learned: CBC
- Lessons from a large widget rollout across Canada's national public broadcaster.
- Jonathan Carrigan (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Meet the Galleries
- Successfully market your widget through platform galleries
- Will Price (Widgetbox), Freddy Mini (Netvibes)
- MySpace Applications
- Building applications for a MySpace audience.
- Max Newbould (Fox Interactive Media), Max Engel (Fox Interactive Media)
- Navigating the Mobile Landscape
- The current state of mobile widget development.
- Kevin Hunter (Qualcomm)
- New Product Launches
- Product launches take the stage.
- OpenSocial Basics
- Write intelligent widgets for OpenSocial platforms such as MySpace, Orkut, and Hi5.
- Chris Schalk (Google), Paul Lindner (hi5 Networks)
- Tapping into Social Utilities
- Take advantage of social network smarts inside your own website
- Max Engel (Fox Interactive Media)
- Web App Architecture in an Age of Widgetized Social Graphs
- Build smart websites that take advantage of open user data APIs across multiple platforms
- Joseph Smarr (Plaxo)
- Web Widgets
- Creating syndicated widgets for web page embeds
- Bryan Purdy (Opera Software)
- Welcome
- Welcome to Widget Summit 2008
- Niall Kennedy (Widget Summit)
- Widget Advertising
- Monetize your widget network through in-widget advertising.
- Joel Fisher (AOL), Seth Goldstein (SocialMedia)
- Widget Data Strategies
- Collect rich data from your widget network to influence future business.
- Andreas Weigend (Weigend Associates)
- Widget Design Principles
- Learn essential design tips for a 300px square world.
- Carnet Williams (Sprout)
- Widget Measurement
- A distributed widget introduces new complexities to the fine art of accurate measurement.
- Cyrus Radfar (Clearspring Technologies), Steve Hammond (Omniture), Albert Lai (Kontagent)
- Widgets Around the World
- Meet popular widget platforms in Asia, Europe, and South America.
- David Jones (Friendster), Laurent Sanchez (ACCESS), Paul Lindner (hi5 Networks)
- WordPress Sidebar Widgets
- Create fast, powerful widgets customized for the WordPress platform.
- Alex King (Crowd Favorite)
- Yahoo! Blueprint
- Leverage Yahoo's mobile reach on thousands of handsets
- Alex Linde (Yahoo!)
- Yahoo! Opens Up
- How platform strategies and technologies will shape the next wave of the Web
- Cody Simms (Yahoo!)
