Opening The Web

My first ever talk at Tomorrow's Web in 2009, on API design

Transcript

1. Opening the Web Jamie Rumbelow Tomorrow’s Web 8th August, 2009 London Photo: Flickr (jamelah)
2. Me! @jamierumbelow Jamie Rumbelow http://jamierumbelow.net
3. • AWESOME Web Dev Screencasts • PHP, JavaScript, iPhone etc. • High-quality + Cheap! • http://binarycake.com
4. What was the web? Why should it be open? What’s an API? How can I get one? And if something goes wrong? Awesome!
5. In the Beginning...
6. Documents Photo: Flickr (corgettelawn)
7. HTML - Document Structure Photo: Flickr (ninavizz)
8. Media Photo: Flickr (john_a_ward)
9. Music Photo: Flickr (lynchaos)
11. Interaction Photo: Flickr (wlodi)
12. Web 2.0 Photo: Flickr (c__)
13. Openness
14. Open Source
15. Free, Free, Free
16. APIs Photo: Flickr (foreverdigital)
17. Why open?
18. Photo: Flickr (cncphotos)
19. Photo: Flickr (mackz) Open Expanse of Data
20. What’s good about open? Photo: Flickr (devillibrarian)
21. Photo: Flickr (jurvetson) Your content is going places
22. Photo: Flickr (Radioher) Relax, it’s done for you
23. Err... API?
24. Photo: Flickr (Mikecpeck) Taking lots of data and doing stuff
25. Twitter
26. Giving your data away Photo: Flickr (Patrick Haney)
27. Raw Data
28. The Techy Bit
29. RSS - Frequently updating info feeds
30. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Photo: Flickr (nadya) HTTP-based actions
31. XML-RPC Photo: Flickr (willpate)
32. YQL Photo: Flickr (nokiapixel)
33. YQL = The Hot Shiz
34. SELECT * FROM xml WHERE url='http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml? id=jamierumbelow'
35. SELECT * FROM twitter.user.timeline WHERE id='jamierumbelow'
36. Woah, Problemo
37. Security Photo: Flickr (lwr)
38. Session-based Authentication Photo: Flickr (fallsroad)
39. Photo: Flickr (factoryjoe)
40. Photo: Flickr (alan-dean) HTTP-based Authentication
41. Photo: Flickr (mburpee) Custom
42. SSL
43. Lack of SSL Pain Not good!
44. What if I don’t want to? Photo: Flickr (slushpup)
45. Embedded Application Platforms Photo: Flickr (Barnaby)
46. Cool!
47. What was the web? Why should it be open? What’s an API? How can I get one? And if something goes wrong? Awesome!
48. API = AWESOME (like the T-shirt) Photo: Flickr (codepo8)
49. Don’t hurt my soul...
50. Kthxbye Jamie Rumbelow @jamierumbelow http://jamierumbelow.net http://binarycake.com ‘imetjamie’ - 10 credits