Building On The Shoulders

Building on the Shoulders of Giants @media 2008 London – May 29/30, 2008

• GetSnitter.com Building on the Shoulders of Giants

• MyMileMarker.com Building on the Shoulders of Giants

• DjangoPlugables.com Building on the Shoulders of Giants

• Overheard.it Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Culture Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Developers like to reinvent the wheel Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Linux Distributions Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Lightbox Matrix Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Designers like to reuse Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Developers need to think more like designers Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Tools Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Frameworks Ruby on Rails Django CakePHP CodeIgniter Zend Framework Building on the Shoulders of Giants

JavaScript jQuery Prototype ExtJS Mootools YUI Dojo Building on the Shoulders of Giants

CSS Meyer Reset YUI CSS Grids Blueprint 960.gs Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Platforms Adobe AIR/Flash/Flex Microsoft WPF/Silverlight Java/JavaFX Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Language of Mashups REST, XML-RPC, SOAP JSON, XML, Flash Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Flash?! Built-in Socket support Flash/JavaScript bridge Binary transfer format Charting, IMAP and other SoundManager / sIFR / File Upload Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Types of Data Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Location Maps (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) Crime Database (Everyblock) Real Estate (Trulia) GPS FireEagle BrightKite Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Time Lifestreams (combining blogs, comments, flickr, twitter…) FriendFeed Jaiku Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Relationships Social Networks (flickr, twitter, jaiku, youtube, digg) LinkedIn Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Downfalls Building on the Shoulders of Giants

“Dynamic” APIs Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Service Availability Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Middleman Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Benefits Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Well-tested Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Speed Up Development Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Solve problems outside of original solution Building on the Shoulders of Giants

It’s about IDEAS! Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Ideas Get them out fast Iterate fast and often See what works Building on the Shoulders of Giants

How fast? Push out ideas in hours instead of days, weeks, or months DjangoPlugables Building on the Shoulders of Giants

You can DO IT! Building on the Shoulders of Giants

Slides and Links http://snook.ca/atmedia08/ Building on the Shoulders of Giants

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Building On The Shoulders

by Jonathan Snook on Jun 05, 2008

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