Future of Web Apps 07
Had fun last couple of days at the Future of Web Apps conference, heard some very interesting talks. All the presentations are going to be available as podcasts, so I guess they should be up soon and I’ll post a link. The most interesting aspect for me was collecting plenty of web app urls to try out in the next few days, e.g. openid (single sign on), twingly.se (visual representation of blogosphere), soocial (contacts management), mybloglog (getting connected with people who read your blog), spinvox (voicemail to text), thinkfree viewer (for publishing MS office files online). When I had chance to have a play with some of these I’ll post up my experiences and thoughts on them.
The application I’m most interesting in finding more about is OpenID, as seems to be an innovative way to solve the single sign on problem. Really interesting to hear about the experiences from founders and developers from last.fm and digg. The OU got a positive mention from Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) 
[...] Based on browsing the blogosphere, it seems that the majority of the attendees agree with me (Read/Write Web, 23 Musings, David Mytton, Alex Little, Digital Telepathy, Tim Anderson, Izeo and Femmaissance) and a few that didn’t (Jonathan Mulvihill and Meg Pickard). [...]
[...] Based on browsing the blogosphere, it seems that the majority of the attendees agree with me (Read/Write Web, 23 Musings, David Mytton, Alex Little, Digital Telepathy, Tim Anderson, Izeo and Femmaissance) and a few that didn’t (Jonathan Mulvihill and Meg Pickard). [...]