I’m in Chicago today (and yesterday) for Web Content 2008. It’s a nice, smaller conference – about 150 attendees or so, with very strong content (as you might expect) and good opportunities to meet, talk to, and network with the speakers and other attendees. The focus this year is on “Web 2.0 and it’s impact on Web Communication” so there’s been lots of interesting discussion.
I got in late yesterday due to some flight issues, but managed to catch three good presentations.
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(Via Max Kiesler)
Wordle is a java applet, created by Jonathan Feinberg, which creates aesthetically pleasing tag clouds from text you enter, offering you rough control over layout, font, and colors.
Here’s one I created based on the current content of this blog (click on it to view full size):
Note that Enterprise comes out heavy – I assume that has to do with the Enterprise 2.0 conference being the title of many recent posts.
I use BrightKite to update my location via SMS, and it feeds FireEagle, which in turn posts to my lifestream via Movable Type and the Action Streams Plugin. If any of that made sense, keep reading. ;)
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One of the entries in the launchpad competition today was Sun Microsystem’s Project SocialSite.
It’s part of the larger Glassfish project, and uses Apache Shindig as an OpenSocial container – they demo’d OpenSocial widgets running inside Drupal and MediaWiki – all running inside a Java Application Server.
Video:
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Quick video interview from Digiphile at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, in which Dan Bricklin explains SocialCalc, which Ross Mayfield announced yesterday, and brings social spreadsheet functionality into SocialText wikis:
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