Dan Woods Featured Presenter at Mashup Camp
On Nov. 17-19, an "unconference" called Mashup Camp was held in Mountain View, Calif. Mashup Camp bills itself as "The Unconference for the Uncomputer," and our very own Dan Woods will be one of the featured presenters, along with Web 2.0 luminaries such as Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and John Musser of ProgrammableWeb and about 17 others.
According to the Mashup Camp website, Mashup Camp is "an unconference-style event dedicated to bringing together the Mashup Community for a face-to-face collaborative meet-up where new relationships are formed, old relationships are nurtured, ideas are shared, and innovation happens in real time."
The idea behind unconferences as described by Dave Winer, came about after having to sit through endless boring repetitive conferences full of PowerPoint slides and uninspiring speakers—the kind where attendees would routinely nod off, check their email, and so on. Our readers may be familiar with other such unconferences as FooCamp, BarCamp, and BloggerCon.
And an "uncomputer" is, in simple terms, a collection of APIs on the internet that aren't bound by the same constraints APIs on desktop computers are bound by. As the Mashup Camp site says, "The source of an API (or the variety of APIs used by a mashup) can be the server on your local area network or a machine halfway across the world."
To find out more, visit Mashup Camp.
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