Mike is the founder and CEO of Newsvine. Mike’s presentation at CarsonWorkshops The Future of Web Apps conference dealt with user generated content. User generated content is not a new concept, it is just a new buzzword. Amazon is driven by user generated content, user can review reviewers. Amazon, Ebay, Epionions have been using user [...]
Carl is the Product Manager of Google Calendar. During his presentation at The Future of Web Apps, Carl shed some light into the development process in place at Google on a typical project and his experience building a great web 2.0 application. Carl said that Google Calendar started as a ‘classic’ Google product team, that [...]
Steve Olechowski is the cofounder and COO of FeedBurner. During his CarsonWorkshops The Future of Web Apps session he some insight into RSS feeds. I didn’t record all the ten things about RSS that I didn’t know, because what you don’t know wont hurt you and because they seemed unimportant for someone not working at [...]
Tantek as the Chief Technologist at Technorati has helped shape and define new web standards. In this the fourth session of The Future of Web Apps conference Tantek described the benefits of using standardized Microformats. Microformats are small enhancements to standard HTML tags that help describe and classify the information that is being presented. According [...]
Tom Coates is a Social Software Technologist at Yahoo! Tom talked about building social software that is greater than the sum of their parts in the CarsonWorkshops The Future of Web apps Conference. According to Tom, social software allows us to do “more together than we could do apart.” This is an interesting point, because [...]
Kevin Rose is the Founder and Chief Architect of Digg and according to some fuzzy math from BusinessWeek he is worth an estimated $60 million. Kevin, like Bill Gates, is a college drop out. As a Digg user and DiggNation fan I feel that Kevin’s talk was a rehash of what he always talks about. [...]