Friday, April 27, 2007

Web 2.0 Expo Slides & Blogs

Here you will find links to live blogs and slides to some of the sessions we attended.
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Web 2.0 Fundamentals

Web 2.0 Overview
Slides

An Overview of Badges and Widgets: The Fast Rise of Viral Web Parts
Description : Slides

Casual Privacy (Ignite Web2.0 Expo)
Slides

** Slide transcript included at the end of the page on slideshare.net

Building Social Applications
Description : Blog : Slides

API and Mashup Best Practices
Description : Blog

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Design and User Experience

High Performance Web Sites
Description : Blog : Slides

** Slide transcript included at the end of the page on slideshare.net

The New Hybrid Designer
Description : Blog : Speaker : Slides

Are Agile Projects Doomed to Half-Baked Design?
Slides : mp3 audio

Immersive Experiences: Lessons from Game Designers
Description : mp3 audio : Blog : Slides

Microformats, Much More Than Just Promise
Description : Blog : Slides

From Desktop to Device: Designing the Ubiquitous Mobile Experience
Description : Slides

The Iterative App: From Discord to Design
Description : Resource : Speaker : Slides

Web Usability for the Rest of Us
Slides

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Marketing and Community

Emerging Trends in Search Engine Optimization & Search Engine Marketing
Description : Slides

Tagging That Works
Description : Slides

Optimization and Search Engine Marketing
Description : Slides

What I Learned from Syphilis: Epidemiology & Viral Marketing
Description : Blog

Marketing in a Web 2.0 world
Slides

The Need for Feeds: Understanding RSS & Blog Marketing
Description : Blog

Using Widget Syndication for Online Marketing and Measurement
Description : Blog

From Pages to People: Behavioral Targeting
Description : Blog

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Web Operations, Services & Platforms

Geographic Distribution for Global Web Application Performance:
Slides

Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches
Description : Slides

Media 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Transforming Traditional Media
Description : Blog

Vulnerabilities 2.0 in Web 2.0
Description : Slides

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Products & Services, Keynotes, and Events

Bridging the Gap Between Desktop and Web
Description : Slides

Microformats for Web Services and Portable Content
Slides

Mobile 2.0
Description : Blog : Audio

Reality Bites: The Future of Gaming + Virtual Worlds 2.0
Description : Blog

Rich Internet Application Platforms
Description : Blog

Launch Pad Day 1: Spock, WebEx, inpowr
Blog : Audio

Launch Pad Day 2 (audio) (Webware): Swivel, Vidoop (video), Tellme
Audio : Webware : Video

Ignite: (Potenco video) (Information diet) (Happiness hacking) (Justin.tv)

The Challenge of Agile Development: Avoiding Half-Baked Design

This was an amazing session, the room had over a 1000 people trying to squeeze through the doors to hear and take a peak at this presentation.

Chaffee, Pivotal Labs & Leslie Chicoine, Satisfaction: Insights into the challenge of integrating foundational design methods (interaction design, usability design, interface design, interaction design) into a team doing Agile development (rapid releases, week-long iterations, high feedback and communication).

In a nutshell team collaboration is important.

mp3 audio slides

** Slideshow transcript included at the end of the page of slideshare.net

Badges and Widgets Slides

Here are the slide from a pretty good session I went to on Badges and Widgets...
"Badges and Widgets" session that you can download.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Web 2.0 Overview

Here is copy of the presentation slides from a good overview presentation of a "What is Web 2.0" workshop

Friday, April 20, 2007

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM).

I went to a great session. It covered the latest emerging trends and techniques in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM). The panel discussed a variety of topics for optimizing search-based marketing, such as natural search tips, SEM and paid inclusion, sitemap standards, syndication via Google Base, microformats, tagging, social media optimization, long tail optimization, blogging and blog PR, and personalized search, among others. Here are the slides from the session. Definatly worth a look.

http://www.marketersstudio.com/2007/03/web_20_expo_pre.html

Kickoff Video - A MUST WATCH

Kicked off the first Keynote.
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

pdf of Emersive Designs

http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/immersivedesign.pdf