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One week until Mashup Camp in the Valley: Discuss, hack, compete (great prizes), & party

Only one week remains until the fourth Mashup Camp and Mashup University are set to start at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Over the last year and a half, Mashup Camp has grown to be the unofficial official social and technical gathering for everyone with an...

Tags: ~ Events ~, Web Technology, Utility computing, Software Infrastructure, SaaS, Mashup University, Mashup Camp, IT Management, Innovation, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, Berlind, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Mashup Camp 3 at MIT all tee'd up and ready to go (and registration is open)

It hardly seems like a year has passed since the idea of a Mashup Camp first crossed my mind. But thats exactly how long it has been since I first shared the idea with a few other people the day after I attended some after hours events that were being...

Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mashup, Mashup Camp, Mashup U.

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Interested in learning how to develop mashups? Welcome to Mashup U. Online

My personal belief is that mashup style software development, as ecosytems go, will easily overtake most other software development ecosystems in number of developers and applications. There are a lot of different definitions of what a software mashup is (there are also other types of mashups, like music). But I...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Mashup Camp, Berlind, Education, Mashup University

Blog posts 2006-11-20

From Mashup University: Video of Introduction to Mashups 101

ZDNet was the official media partner to Mashup University which took place at the Computer History Museum this past July and since then, our broadband team as been pioneering the intersection of on-demand distance learning by way of highly post-produced Webcast lessons that brilliantly merge the video output of the...

Tags: video, teacher, computer

Blog posts 2006-10-19

ZDNet to stream Mashup University sessions on demand

ZDNet to stream Mashup University sessions on demandWhat formats?If we offer downloadable versions, what formats should the video/screencast be in? Warning: In order for the screen text to be legible, the frame size will be large (at least 800x600, most likely bigger), so these files could get huge. We won't...

Tags: Product development, Product marketing, Mashup University

Discussion threads 2006-07-12

ZDNet to stream Mashup University sessions on demand

ZDNet a CNET Networks Property is one of the sponsors of Mashup University and has sent a crew pictured left down to the Computer History Museum to record all of the mashup classes for on-demand rebroadcast through ZDNet's webcasting operation (we're also contemplated making them downloadable). What this means is...

Tags: Mashup University, video

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Mashup University underway in Silicon Valley

Mashup University got off to good start this morning here at the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley. After breakfast, the day opened with an Introduction to Mashup Programming 101 taught by Brian Hamlin. We've got about 100 people here and room for more...

Tags: Mashup University, Brian Hamlin, Computer History Museum

Blog posts 2006-07-10

Mashup University: Free two-day class on developing mashups

Mashup University: Free two-day class on developing mashupsThank you for making this happenIt's really inspiring to see people spending their time and energy to make something like the Mashup Camp happen. Great job David and others, and more power to you.See you in a few days in the...

Tags: mashup, Mashup University

Discussion threads 2006-07-05

Mashup University: Free two-day class on developing mashups

Next week's Mashup Camp the unconference for the uncomputer at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA is fully-booked at 400 people and a waiting list is forming (here's the registration page to get on the waiting list). Last February, everyone who showed up at the door on the...

Tags: Mashup University, mashup

Blog posts 2006-07-05

Additional Resources

Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Tech-take on the spread of swine flu

A public health emergency is now in place in the United States, even though the US especially, with 20 people ill, are "more prepared than ever before", according to White House officials. Spread of the swine flu, hereon in as H151, has been confirmed as the same highly virulent form...

Tags: Spread, Flu, Public Health Emergency, Government, Healthcare, Security, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-26

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Should Recovery.gov be mashup-friendly?

President Obama's $825 billion financial stimulus package is making its way through Congress, and a number of groups are calling for increased transparency in how the proposed spending will be shared with citizens, according to CNET. And in 2009,...

Tags: Web Site, Federal Election Commission, Mashup, Collaboration, Web Site Development, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Government 2.0: Focus is on IT recruiting

Should local governments deploy Web 2.0 applications as part of an online services portfolio? Speakers at the Pennsylvania Digital Government Summit, sponsored by Government Technology magazine, were four-square in favor but urged CIOs to move deliberately, ComputerWorld reports. "I'm not here to tell government to just jump in," said...

Tags: Information Technology, Recruiting, Government Information Portal, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Google's open source problem is Affero

Google's open source problem is AfferoOrly?So, if I understand things correctly from the linked article and this, Affero would require Google to release their source code updates for software that runs the [i]services[/i] they sell, not just for compiled software packages as under the current Affero?In the case of the...

Tags: Mac-user, Affero, F/OSS, open source, AGPL, Google Inc., source code

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

An (Imaginary?) Hannaford Conspiracy

The regularity with which geezers like me see history repeating itself suggests some combination of memory influencing perception with an amazing continuity in the forces driving human behavior. Worse, our perceptions of what happened then may be wrong but influence our interpretations of what's happening during the perceived re-run anyway,...

Tags: Point-of-sale, Debit Card, Computer, IBM Corp., Hannaford, Data Breach, Linux, Financial Services, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Mashup culture shatters crusty, stodgy old approach to business app dev

When I first launched Mashup Camp in the beginning of 2006, virtually all of the mashups that developers brought to the event were consumerish in nature. Most had to do with music, video, or maps and none were hardcore business applications geared at something as mundane as driving sales....

Tags: Web technology, Video, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-07-23

News to know: Salesforce.com; iPhone/Safari dialer; Rupe lands Dow Jones

Notable headlines:Dan Farber: Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service. Salesforce swings into its Summer '07 release.Ryan Naraine: Beware the iPhone/Safari dialer.Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? Larry Dignan: CIO switches his company from Windows to Macs. Computerworld: Mac Attack! An enterprise PC shop switches to Apple.Garett...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Four-day Mashup Camp off to a good start with two days of 'Mashup University'

I'm at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA Silicon Valley and we're just wrapping up the first day of Mashup University.  Mashup U is a two day crash course on developing mashups with all but one of the classes (John Herren's introduction to mashup development, see the slides)...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Events

Blog posts 2007-07-16