Best Practices - New Models of Web Application Development

Speaker: Jay Goldman
Author, Facebook Cookbook
Founder, BarCamp Toronto

DATE | TIME | LOCATION

February 24, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM
MaRS Centre CR-3
101 College Street
Toronto, ON

SESSION OVERVIEW

  • Mashups: the promise of the API realized on the web
  • An overview of Open vs. Walled gardens (AOL vs. the web, iTunes vs. Napster, iPhone vs. Android)
  • Cathedral vs. The Bazaar What's the model for web application development (Facebook vs. OpenSocial)
  • Case study: Toronto Transit Commision (TTC) How MyTTC shows a glimmer of what could be possible in an open one.
  • How to apply these frameworks in your company ?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jay Goldman has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as both a User Experience Specialist and Visual Designer. His career has been focused on the interaction between people and technology, and his insights have helped to greatly improve products on mobile, web, and desktop platforms, including IBM DB2 and Mozilla Firefox. Jay led Radiant Core's Professional Services Team on a wide variety of award winning engagements across many industries, and is now helping to change the world as Vice President of Client Experience for Zerofootprint Software, Inc.

He has been instrumental in the continued growth of the BarCamp community in Toronto and was one of the co-conductors of the very successful TransitCamp event held in partnership with the Toronto Transit Commission. Jay has been published in the Harvard Business Review and is the author of Facebook Cookbook for O'Reilly Media.

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