WidgetWebExpo London call for speakers

I’m now working hard on the next WidgetWebExpo, which takes place in London on October 9 & 10th this year. We’ll have a great range of speakers and panels for you as usual. The call for speakers is open now and I encourage you to submit soon if you have something to add to the [...]

Streaming video from the conference

QIK : Streaming video right from your phone
We’ve set up a Qik page for WidgetWebExpo so that anyone who uses Qik to stream video can register and join in the streaming. If you haven’t got a Qik account (it’s still in beta) and you’re attending WidgetWebExpo, check out the site or email me at ivan@widgetwebexpo.com [...]

iPhone widget for WidgetWebExpo

iPhone Show Guide
Thanks to Musestorm we have an iPhone widget for the show - just point your iPhone to http://iphone.musestorm.com/wwe and bookmark the site
If you don’t have an iPhone handy - you can preview this at http://iphonetester.com/
Web and Facebook widgets coming next

Josh Bernoff speaking at WidgetWebExpo

I’m really pleased to announce that Josh Bernoff is speaking. Josh is one of the most experienced and long serving analysts and co-author (with Charlene Li) of the book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. His session is entitled “Using Widgets to accomplish business goals”.
Josh has been at Forrester since 1995. [...]

Agency Panel

David Armano is assembling his panel for the session Micro Interactions: Can portable experiences go mainstream
People, Places + Events
Our panel will discuss “micro interactions” from the perspective of
portable, distributed content and functionality. We’ll discuss
the potential or lack of for all this to go mainstream.
I’ll be speaking at Widget Web Expo and have [...]

Web 2.0 goes to work

Wikis, widgets, blogs, mashups and social networks - sounds like WidgetWebExpo
FORTUNE: Web 2.0 goes to work
Web 2.0 goes to work
By Michael Copeland
On the eve of the latest and largest Internet gathering this year, O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Conference and Expo, Forrester Research dropped a report that concludes that companies will spend $4.6 billion on Web2-related [...]

Intel launches widget Mash Maker

It’s in the widgets - the web site as solid destination is dying widget by widget. Intel pushes it all along a bit with a Mash Maker, though I think we’re going to have to invent some new terminology for this soon. Effectively you are creating your own website out of parts on the fly [...]

Introducing our Speakers - Marc Canter

Marc Canter, founder of Broadband Mechanics, opera singer and larger than life evangelist for the mesh, is on a roll. If you want some notion of how widgetized content fits into a larger context, Marc’s your man.
The value of open social networks for widgetsEverybody is in favour of open social networks where widgetized content [...]

David Armano Micro Interactions panel

I’m highlighting the great speakers we’ve got, starting with David Armano of Logic+Emotion who is putting together a panel for WidgetWebExpo. David Armano is VP of Experience Design with Critical Mass, a professional services firm with a sweet spot for creating outstanding experiences.
Micro Interactions: Can portable experiences go mainstream?Whether we call them widgets, [...]

It’s All About the Widget

Rajil Kapoor, a VC at Mayfield Fund, he gets it. It’s always nice to read someone else writing your thoughts exactly. I’ve been banging on this theme for two years now, here’s my theory in Rajil’s words:
It’s All About the Database…
The web is evolving fast from a simple web page/website destination model to [...]