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Facebook Connect How To - Workshop with Ryan Merket at FOWA
Posted on Mar 02, 2010
My morning workshop on the second full-day of FOWA Miami 2010 covered Facebook connect. The room felt a little like a basement with a very odd L-shaped configuration and there was a relatively small attendance at first, perhaps with many people still recovering from the party the night before at the Clevelander (not surprisingly, people streamed in late as the session was ongoing). Ryan Merket (@merket), the speaker, used to work at Facebook (left weeks ago I believe) and co-founded ping.fm. He also built the first site that utilized Facebook Connect.
Continue Reading →Q&A Session - Gary Vaynerchuk at FOWA
Posted on Mar 02, 2010
The final session of day one at FOWA Miami was a Q & A session with Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV. Gary has used social media in a number of exciting ways and thinks there is an "obnoxious" amount of opportunity out there on the web. We have a great advantage via conferences and other outlets like this and while its changing and becoming much more mainstream, its still early.
Continue Reading →An Inside Look at HTML5 - Molly Holzschlag at FOWA
Posted on Mar 01, 2010
Molly Holzschlag from Opera (@mollydotcom), the next speaker at FOWA Miami 2010, spoke about HTML5. We don't expect to see an actual spec until 2022 but there are things you can do today of course. One important note, she says HTML5 is trying to be inclusive of all the things we have done on the web (such as, yes, the blink tag). HTML5 came out of the WHAT-WG which is the web hypertext applications technology working group. The WHAT-WG and W3C are working side-by-side but not always in agreement. The current spec is 900 pages!
Continue Reading →Build Once, Deploy Anywhere - Dion Almaer at FOWA
Posted on Mar 01, 2010
Palm was the next presenter at FOWA Miami 2010, represented by Dion Almaer (and Ben - no last name provided). They are discussing about the idea of build once, deploy anywhere in terms of devices such as smart phones and Kindle. The issue for developers is that as devices proliferate, there is increasing fragmentation with unique SDKs for each type of device. This can leave to a lot of pain as we are forced to make "bets" on which devices we plan on supporting.
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