Steven Isaacson

• Overview
• Scripting Languages
• PHP
• Wordpress
• Gallery
• Aggregators
• flickr.com
• del.icio.us
• Audioscrobbler.com/Last.FM
• bloglines.com

• Can be broken up into two different categories
• Personal
• Community
• Choice of scripting languages depends on many factors

• PHP
• Perl/CGI
• MS Developed languages(ASP,etc)
• Java

• PHP: Hypertext Processor
• Suited for web development
• Can be embedded in HTML
• Base for many open source web applications

• Open Source personal publishing platform
• Latest web standards
• Mainly used to publish blogs
• Extensible plugin architecture

• PHP photo album
• Upload from browser or file system
• RSS feeds of changes
• Template system to change looks to fit site
• Many other systems exist(PHPgraphy, zoph)

• Web 2.0
• VC capital exists for Internet based businesses
• Open/Accessible APIs
• Access to portions of underlying data
• Focused on forming communities

• Developed by Ludicorp
• Recently bought by Yahoo!
• Allows for tagging of pictures
• Create streams(albums) of pictures
• API for access to back end
• Upload limit(10MB free account), no storage or download limit
• Tagging allows for photo memes to develop
• Easily blog about photos, add stream to external blog

• Social bookmarks manager
• See links others have collected
• See who has bookmarked a specific site
• RSS feeds available for most of the data collected
• Wordpress plugin to display last bookmarks

• Plugin to music player to submit music data
• Lists:
• Recently Played
• Weekly Charts
• Top Artists
• Top Songs
• Groups/Forums create community interaction
• Suggests people with similar tastes
• Suggests artists with similar music
• No concept of genre
• Wordpress plugin to display last songs played

• KDE Application
• Uses online sources in a unique way
• Built in AS support
• Fetches album cover art from Amazon
• Displays suggestions from AS
• Can use suggestions to build a continuous play list

• Uses AS data to create music profile
• Creates a personalized radio station
• Allows for feedback on songs
• With subscription creates a station with only artists from your library

• Bought by ask.com
• RSS feed aggregator
• Shows feeds similar to current ones
• Web interface to allow access from anywhere
• Subscriptions available as an opml file

• Online Aggregators are characterized by building a community
• Many of the very successful ones have open APIs
• Open source projects are making use of these services
• del.icio.us/spi/installathon