It really is only a matter of time before this stuff really takes off. With Bill on the bully pulpit yakkin‘ with TimO about it, dropping references it during the Mix ’06 keynote, Ray Ozzie pimping them at ETECH, LinkedIn coming to the party, folks misrepresenting core ideas already… I mean sweet! I smell a movement on the march.
Update: Kevin “Quicktime” Marks has the transcript and more formats.
The first Drupal Camp is being organized for April 1-2 and will take place at Compumentor in San Francisco. Less a camp than a hands-on seminar, the event will cost $500 for each trainee and feature training by Jeff Robbins of Lullabot.
Ever need to execute repetitive tasks in Firefox? Now you don’t need to do it by hand — simply grab Selenium IDE. “It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests.” Take a look and then download it!
Apparently a conversation I had with Narendra at TechCrunch BBQ #5 convinced him to add microformats support to 30boxes. I suppose I’ll forgive him for the pOPML reference, but in the meantime, if you’re inclined, grab my 30boxes hCard.
Ok, so that’s not exactly how it went down, but Tantek was there and heard it from Capt Bill himself.
If you happen to tune into the Mix ’06 keynote, at around the 14 minute mark, Bill does indeed refer to something that, gee, goes by “microformat” in more savvy circles. And then later on, said:
We need microformats and to get people to agree on them. It is going to bootstrap exchanging data on the Web…
…we need them for things like contact cards, events, directions…
So if you’ve been playing along at home, welcome to the future kids. Microsoft is waking up, is back in the game and ready to deliver some serious innovation. Can open source continue its onslaught against the once great software juggernaut or will it continue to stutter in areas like user experience, graphics technology and hell, its exclusive, elite, Eurogeekwhitetrash bourgeoisie culture that keeps girls (and other minorities) out? (And yes, the speaker acknowledges his privilege as an educated white male.)
One thing is for sure — it’s shaping up to be a very interesting time in the browser space after all.
Another offshoot of Bar Camp, Drupal Camp is looking for a venue in NYC. As Amit can attest, finding a venue, especially in NYC, is the hardest part of organizing a camp.
So, if anyone has ideas for May 13-14 — Node 101 folks? — please let Noel know on the wiki. More details on their planning page.
technorati tags: DrupalCamp, drupal, DrupalCampnyc, civicspace, barcamp
Yes, this is kind of what we’re trying to avoid in Flock. I mean, take a look. While I’m sure a lot of functionality in there is pretty useful — that’s a user experience I would never want to impost on anyone!
In case you were on the prowl for an important job doing open source interface and design work, boy have I got the opportunity for you.
GoodStorm (host of the meager FactoryCity store) is looking for a GoodDesigner to help improve their brand new open source store (which is built on Drupal).
Drop Marc) a note and tell him I sent you!
Calvin Yu has done a great job with his Tails extension and I’d like to see something similar in Flock — but much fuller featured. How about a microformat vaccuum cleaner thingamahoogie that sucks up all the mFs it finds, indexes them with Lucene and then spits them back out in a Greasemonkey-created address book or calendar? Eh eh? Any takers?
So my buddy Will Pate is lookin’ for a new challenge.
I’m moving on from Raincity Studios, because I’ve done my part in getting this startup off the ground and now it’s time for me to take on my next challenge. In just one year we’re now recognized as the best Drupal design firm in the world and one of the best web 2.0 professional services firms in the world. I hit over 170k worth of sales in 2005 and 230k already in the first quarter of 2006 (this could rise before I leave). We’ve almost tripled our staff to meet client demand.
As part experiment, part case study, I’m asking my friends in the blog world to give me some link love. The best opportunities will come from getting my name out there. Thanks in advance to everyone who helps out.
Web Marketing Prodigy and Sales Rainmaker Seeks Awesome Job | Will Pate
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