Mashup Camp: Speed Geeking
These are my Treo notes on the speed presentations by the different solution providers.
Participants included: Calais, Elfenworks Foundation, Google Maps API, IBM Mashup Center, Mozenda Web Agent Builder, Open AIM, Presto, RadWebTech, Wetpaint Injected, zembly
For more information about each solution, visit http://www.mashupcamp.com/wiki/index.php/BestSolutionProviderTool7.
1 Calais:
www.opencalais.com/mashupstart
A webservice which generates semantic metadata from natural language text: entities (place names, companies, providing disambiguation), triples & events. Very fast. 40k/day free, can build commercial. CF Yahoo term extraction. When asked about the semantic tuning, challenged that it would be contemporary tuning, he answered that use with meeting notes was going well, as well as 1700s texts about the lives of painters. Very good in companies, less in products:
Demo gnosis
2 Elfaworks: bridge software & publishing – music, film, design. Raising profiles of nonprofits, NGO, focus on domestic poverty. Stanford center supported, websaavy techies.
3 IBM Mashup center: Feed assembly
www-01.ibm.com/software/info/mashup-center/
www-10.lotus.com/ldd/mashupswiki.nsf
Ronald Leung, Solution Architect
4 IBM Mashup center, continued, making page
Klaus Roder, Software Engineer
5 Mozenda “More perfect data”
www.mozenda.com
Agent builder software, $39/mo plus data charges
I think they host the database configuration of your choice.
The agent does not work on a mac.
Something about this and the previous IBM talk reminds me of portal prsentations at the 2003 XML conference I attended.
6 Wetpaint Ryan & Boe
Free webservice that provides content to appear on your site. They trust your site’s authentication.
Widgets from external sites can then be included. Content saved to wet paint cloud. Wiki like, I think.
7 radwebtech
(Wisest use of an external monitor plus the laptop to make the demo comprehensible.)
Container technology library for your mashups, provides backend tracking/logging as well. Nonprogrammer & programmer uses. Strong support for dataportability and open social.
Interesting point is the distribution as a binary object: This then allows a developer to hide their work….
8 Open AIM, Greg Cypes
How to extend the AIM client: demo incorporated twitter with AIM client; setting AIM status updates twitter, facebook. (AIM client as shortcut to SMS sender.) Clearspring widgets mentioned several times. API free – once you get a million peak: meebo and iChat don’t come close.
9 IBM Dan Gisolfi, Mashup Enabler
new technology, not a product.
Webmeetings: broadcast & lecture mode
Cooperative interaction
All Open AJAX hub spec
Pass interactive events, not data
This is a very powerful demo of the technology, reminds me of the new product Calliflower.
Blue Spruce
10 Google sketchup Mano Marks
Google Eart API
Putting in your own imagery
11 Zembly Service from Sun
Provides hosting, IDE, and library to
make Meebo, Facebook, etc widgets. Collects public APIs (a dozen or so), helps with service keys. Open & closed source stuff. Will allow you to bring your own API and will include in. Private beta. Still figuring
12 JackBe Wires
Sits on top of corporate databases.
XML based language for incorporating services, optimized with dealing with the html header management of webservices.
More in the corporate intranet portal space.
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August 6th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Mozenda is a web browser that helps you surf the web and display the information you want to harvest. With Mozenda you can capture both text and pictures from virtually any page on the Web. There is no need for programming. The technology is quite simple and easy to use, especially for those who are familiar with a web browser, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Whenever you browse a web page using Mozenda’s integrated web browser, you are free to choose from different actions offered you by the service. Everything you do is registered in a list that you can find next to a thumbnail of the respective page.
Users can take advantage of the Mozenda Agent Builder which can teach to carry out different actions on various websites so it could later do everything you need automatically. It is also worth mentioning that with Mozenda you can send information to your FTP or an email.