IBM Mashup Center provides the easy-to-use components of a complete business mashup platform supporting line of business assembly of dynamic situational applications in addition to the security and governance capabilities IT requires. We're excited about participating in Mashup Camp and showing you in person this easy way to build enterprise mashup solutions and hearing your ideas for improvements and enhancements!
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Today's web users have come to expect more from the web than non-interactive text and images. They want to be engaged, entertained, and enlightened. And most important, they want access to full-fledged applications that respond to their needs quickly and easily, without ever having to leave your website.
AOL has the solution: With our suite of APIs, you can integrate the functionality of AOL's most dynamic messaging, media, authentication, and mapping programs directly into your web applications. Both robust and flexible – with a host of "skins and plug-ins-APIs give you the ability to create innovative applications and mash-ups with the look, feel, and function that extend your brand and reflect your identity.
Engage your web users. Build your community. Strengthen your brand. With AOL APIs, you have the tools you need to power your ideas. Please visit dev.aol.com
Calais is a Thomson Reuters initiative that supports the interoperability of content and the company’s mission to deliver pervasive, intelligent information. The Calais Web service enables publishers, site owners and content consumers to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in content. The open Calais API and developer community is at www.OpenCalais.com.
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. See www.ThomsonReuters.com.
At the Elfenworks Foundation, our mission is to foster a world In Harmony With Hope(sm). Our partners are working to raise awareness, to educate, to research and disseminate knowledge; those who empower and uplift the weak, poor, marginalized and written-off. Our multi-faceted, creative and hardworking team of technology advocates, social entrepreneurs and advisors use expertise in communications, computers, film, music, the law, finance, and business administration to heal, empower and transform. We analyze what's broken, find solutions, remove obstacles, raise awareness, forge alliances, and support the efforts of visionary change-makers.
"We're really excited about the Elfenworks Social Justice Mashup prize and are looking forward to the 2008 Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum," said Elfenworks Foundation CEO Lauren Speeth. "We share a 'Silicon Valley' mindset with you, and we know that by joining hands in partnership with you we’ll do a better job telling the–largely ignored–story of domestic poverty in new and exciting ways. By bringing together various pieces of the puzzle, mashups can breathe life into data and make the stories more compelling. We’re thrilled at the thought of enlisting some of the finest technologists (the students of Mashup Camp!) as story-tellers for change."
Google's goal is to move the web forward and to do so in an open way. The developer offerings on code.google.com have expanded over the last few years to include dozens of APIs to access data in our products, projects to make web application development easier and faster, more sophisticated engines to run those applications. blurb
We look forward to discussions and feedback at Mashup Camp!
JackBe delivers trusted mashup software that empowers organizations to create, customize and collaborate through enterprise mashups for faster decisions and better business results. Our innovative Enterprise Mashup platform, Presto, provides dynamic mashups that leverage internal and external data while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Presto provides enterprise mashups delivered to the user in 3 clicks versus 3 months
JackBe is excited to be a part of the Mashup Camp Community. We look forward to a collaborative event where we can share our enterprise mashup experiences and help to continue to grow the enterprise mashup ecosystem. Learn more at www.jackbe.com/Products/presto.php.
Mozenda is a SaaS company that enables users of all types to quickly and easily extract, repurpose and publish web data. Mozenda’s customers use the Mozenda service to create world class mashups, perform critical web research, simplify ecommerce, and turn multiple websites into dynamic API driven data feeds. Designed with the business user in mind, Mozenda allows anyone to easily control the acquisition and integration of web data in just minutes.
Mozenda is proud to be a part of Mashup Camp and looks forward to helping you build the best new mashups! www.mozenda.com
The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and Web developers working together to advance and promote "Ajax" (i.e., achieving rich user experiences using open browser technologies such as HTML and JavaScript). The alliance has multiple interoperability initiatives around mashups, including OpenAjax Hub and OpenAjax Metadata for Widgets.
RadWebTech is introducing its xWinLib-based DistroMash platform for the mashup community at this year’s MashupCamp. The platform makes it easy to create distribution releases of your mashups that include versioning, tracking, remote installation, monetization, and more. It also provides enhanced functionality that can link your mashup components together in powerful and compelling ways and includes embedded windowing, event handling, data portability, feed generation, and more.
RadWebTech creates advanced products and technologies that fuel innovation -- cool products from killer technologies for huge markets! The company’s CEO/CTO also sits on the board of the DataPortability group and will be having extensive conversations on the subject of DataPortability as it relates to developers. Visit us at http://www.radwebtech.com for more information, and we’ll see you in person at MashupCamp!
TheWebService is a unique new platform for business web services. With a constantly growing market place of data providers including Dun and Bradstreet, TeleAtlas and CACI, we make it easy to use data, anywhere. As well as hosting data from big name providers, TheWebService uniquely enables you to self host data and generate web services in seconds. These web services are fully documented and even provide code snippets for all major environments.
TheWebService is proud to be working with the Mashup Camp community to make it easier than ever to mashup data from commercial and private sources.
Wetpaint envisions a day when the entire web is socially published. To achieve this vision, Wetpaint launched Wetpaint Injected. With a few lines of code and a bit of configuration, Wetpaint Injected makes it possible to embed tools that facilitate socially published content on any web page. The benefit – more content, more engagement, and more traffic to your website.
This is the first time the Wetpaint team has attended Mashup Camp and we’re excited to show how you can seamlessly integrate wiki-style social publishing features into your websites. We’re also interested in hearing your thoughts and ideas on how you might use Wetpaint Injected to make the entire web socially published.
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone.
Zembly is the world's first hosted application development environment for Facebook, OpenSocial, Meebo, and other social platforms. Using just your browser and your creativity, and working collaboratively with others, you create and publish Facebook apps, Meebo apps, OpenSocial apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, and other social applications. We are part of Sun Microsystems and currently in private beta.
For more information on Zembly and how to access the private beta, please visit: http://zembly.com.
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Furrier.org is the editorial and news blog of technology entrepreneur, social media pioneer, and industry insider John Furrier, the former founder and CEO of PodTech Network. John Furrier and his guest bloggers attract the most influential technology audience from around the world. Furrier.org has an elite audience of 25,000+ unique readers a month who are located primarily in all the major tech centers including Silicon Valley, Boston, Canada, the UK, Germany, India, and Asia.
www.furrier.org
Created in February of 2007, ‘Girls in Tech’ (GIT) was founded by Adriana Gascoigne, Jessica Valenzuela, and Davina Anthony. GIT and was born out of a need to provide a place for women to cultivate ideas around their careers and business concepts involving technology.
Girls in Tech aims to offer a variety of resources and tools for women to supplement and further enhance their professional careers and aspirations in technology. Some of these resources include, educational workshops and lectures, networking functions, round table discussions, conferences, social engagements, and recruitment events. www.girlsintech.net
With more than 5.5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused on social networks and web 2.0 news. Mashable's readers include the most tech-savvy early adopters, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, influencers, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists.
www.mashable.com
Muniwireless is the online resource for information about citywide Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks around the world, applications for mobile wireless devices, location-based services and open-source community wireless projects.
www.muniwireless.com
Founded in 2005 by Ajit Jaokar, the OpenGardens blog has been a leading and pragmatic voice for an open ecosystem in the telecoms/converged world. The OpenGardens blog is published by Futuretext, a publishing company focused on mobility and digital convergence. www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com
Perivision founder Chris Peri received his Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Architecture with a focus on Collaboration in Virtual Environments. Chris' main interests lie in rich media web based applications (RIA). His blog focuses mostly on iPhone applications with a recent focus on GPS apps. Please visit his blog at www.perivision.net/wordpress/
Beth Blecherman is a techie turned blogger mom who is in charge of blogging technology/development and works on outreach for the Silicon Valley Moms Group network. She founded her own blog "TechMamas.com" to discuss technology, gadgets and social media for the parenting community. Beth started her career in application development, then system auditing and her last role was Senior Manager, Computer Process Integrity, for Deloitte. When not blogging, she can be found on Twitter, Facebook and tooling around other new online social networking sites. www.techmamas.com
Ted Shelton of The Conversation Group 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. Most recently Ted developed a new participatory media platform called The Personal Bee, which was acquired by Technorati in early 2007. Ted has been active in re-envisioning Technorati's product roadmap and business strategy and as a part of this effort created The Conversation Group as a key Technorati partner. Prior roles include Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere. http://www.theconversationgroup.com/ted.html http://tedshelton.blogspot.com
The Next Web Blog, first started in 2006 at The Next Web Conference, is a weblog that reports on everything that influences the future of the Web, in any way. We profile interesting products, start-ups and existing companies that are building The Next Web, or the future of the internet as we know it (or Web 2.0, whatever you like). We have an international view on news - we won't limit our coverage just to the Valley. Our main goal is to keep you up-to-date, inspire you and give you new ideas. Maybe even persuade you to start contributing to the next web yourself. www.thenextweb.org
