Max Engel - the 8BitKid
living bit by bit

Last week was my last week on the road, at least for a while (hopefully). I was at the Internet Identity Workshop and the OpenSocial 1-year birthday party. IIW is like a really intense and productive summer camp for folks in the internet identity space. The OpenSocial event gave the containers and app developers a chance to celebrate the successes of the past year and go over what’s coming down the road.

I wanted to share some of the videos from the week. This was my first guest appearance on “thesocialweb.tv“, where I discussed my work at MySpace on Data Availability.

Next up is Joseph Smarr from Plaxo giving a talk on the Open Stack and the social web. Part of his presentation included a demo of the new Portable Contacts spec and how you can access MySpace info through the Data Availability platform. The video doesn’t do the audio justice ;-)

Joseph Smarr on Portable Contacts at IIW from max engel on Vimeo.

Here are the slides from my talk at Widget Summit 2008, and you should also check out John McCrea’s live-blog off my presentation.  I’m off to the Internet Identity Workshop next week, and will also be holding a session at the OpenSocial 1-year anniversary event on “busting out of the container”, which will cover leveraging the REST layer for external application development.

Yesterday I attended the SNAP Summit, and gave a talk on the emergence of the open stack and identity platforms.