Widget Summit 2008

Widget Summit hosted its third annual conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Widget Summit is the premier widget conference educating hundreds of attendees a year on business and development best practices in the emerging widget industry.

The Widget Summit 2008 conference program included a detailed look inside the widget platforms changing the way users interact with rich content across multiple environments. Widget Summit will help you reach and engage new audiences across multiple platforms including over 180 million Windows Vista desktops, 25 million active Facebook users, 10 million iPhone smartphones, or the millions of users that call My Yahoo! and iGoogle home every day. The world of widgets reaches beyond a standard web address and into the desktops, mobile phones, social networks, blogs, and personal homepages of today’s fragmented online engagements.

Check out the following Widget Summit 2008 videos:

Jonathan Carrigan of CBC shares business lessons learned while completing his MBA and in practice with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Lessons Learned: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Paul Lindner of hi5 presents on the widget container and its worldwide audience.

Widgets Around the World: hi5 from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Laurent Sanchez of ACCESS presents Japanese use of mobile widgets at Widget Summit 2008.

Widgets Around the World: ACCESS from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Will Price from Widgetbox and Freddy Mini from Netvibes discuss widget discovery via galleries with moderator Niall Kennedy.

Meet the Galleries from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

iPhone developers share their mobile development experience on this new platform. Brian Fling of Fling Media, Tom Conrad of Pandora, Dom Sagolla of DollarApp, and Sunil Verma of Mobclix discuss the iPhone native application platform with moderator Raven Zachary.

iPhone Developer Panel from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Andreas Weigend presents Widget Data Strategies at Widget Summit 2008.

Widget Data Strategies from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Steve Souders of Google presents High Performance Widgets at Widget Summit 2008.

High Performance Widgets from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Chris Schalk of Google and Paul Lindner of hi5 Networks present OpenSocial Basics at Widget Summit 2008.

OpenSocial Basics from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Max Newbould of MySpace provides an introduction to creating OpenSocial applications on the MySpace platform.

MySpace Applications from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Max Engel of MySpace presents MySpace Data Portability at Widget Summit 2008.

MySpace Data Portability from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

Ryan Sarver of Skyhook Wireless and Chris Butler share the current state-of-the-art for geolocation-aware widget implementations and the data targeting available within.

Geolocation-aware Widgets from Niall Kennedy on Vimeo.

An excellent ‘related’ read: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

Ted Shelton is currently CEO of The Conversation Group. Ted has spent the past 20 years working in the high tech industry, as a software developer and executive in both public and privately held companies. Prior roles include Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere.

Nobody likes being interrupted by irrelevant marketing messages. In this 7-minute conversation after class at Haas, Ted Shelton and Andreas Weigend discuss how sharing data leads to higher expectations towards relevance and serendipity.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

Need a relaxing CD? Listen to clips of Serendipity: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture

Want to be PHAME-ous? Starting with a Problem, coming up with Hypothesis, that then suggest different Actions, defining a rich set of Metrics, and then getting the answers by running Experiments: This is the PHAME framework. it is explained in these two videos of Andreas Weigend’s keynote at the Facebook Developer Garage (March 25, 2009, San Francisco, more at kontagent.com/blog).

Who: Andreas Weigend (Data Mining Professor at Stanford and Former Chief Scientist at Amazon) – Keynote Speaker.

Kontagent is the leading viral analytics platform for social network application developers. The Kontagent platform has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights delivered via a hosted, on-demand service.

Videos filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

A TechAffair.com exclusive: speakers from the Facebook Developer Garage SF (March 25th, 2009 @ the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco), sponsored by Intel and hosted by Kontagent.

Videos filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

1. Josh Elman – Facebook Connect

3. Justin Smith – Social Gaming Trends

4. Jeff Tseng – Beyond Viral Metrics

5. Eric Ries – Engagement Loops 3. Justin Smith – Social Gaming Trends

6. Andrew Mayer – Casual Gaming Metrics Applied to Social Gaming

7. Jia Shen – Facebook Notifications Metrics

8. Vikas Gupta – Virtual Economy Analytics

9. Michael Hart – Netflix and Facebook Connect

TechAffair.com sits down with Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D. former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems. Here, Andreas tells us what the Social Data Revolution is: connecting data, social data.

He currently lectures at Stanford, Berkeley and Tsinghua Universities on the application of data analysis to electronic business problems.

Andreas Weigend advises exciting startups and consults for established firms including Alibaba, Best Buy, Lufthansa, MySpace, and Nokia; helping some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs and executives around the world leverage user data to create innovative products and business models.

Video filmed and produced by Shaun Tai.

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