Comments on: Asia Pacific Web Technology Conference http://www.852signal.com/2008/06/02/asia-pacific-web-technology-conference/ Broadcasting Web 2.0 and next generation web activities in Hong Kong and Asia 香港 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:35:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Angus Lau http://www.852signal.com/2008/06/02/asia-pacific-web-technology-conference/#comment-39278 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:09:04 +0000 http://www.852signal.com/2008/06/02/asia-pacific-web-technology-conference/#comment-39278 Thomas, Thanks for the update. If I knew you were gonna write this much, I'd have to guest write a post on it. Angus. Thomas,

Thanks for the update. If I knew you were gonna write this much, I’d have to guest write a post on it.

Angus.

]]> by: Thomas Legg http://www.852signal.com/2008/06/02/asia-pacific-web-technology-conference/#comment-39225 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:39:01 +0000 http://www.852signal.com/2008/06/02/asia-pacific-web-technology-conference/#comment-39225 The second session had the talk on the SOA model of web development, which seemed like just another packaging of what I was taught was multi-tier object oriented programming. The talk by Terence Yim of Yahoo Development was interesting for me as I haven't spent that much time poking around the offerings like Pipes and YUI. Also a quick look at the SearchMonkey and how this ties in to the Semantic Web and use of microformats and other metadata. After lunch a nice talk by Chief Frenzoo Simon Newstead with some sneak peeks of what they are up to on the 3-D avatar front. Well structured speech for the crowd. I haven't looked at your interview with one of the Frenzoo folks, so I'm not sure what overlap there might be. Then Harris Chan of Microsoft gave lots of demos of Silverlight and what it can bring to web browsing and video. Last was Sam Lee of Outblaze on identity management. I think a lot of the audience was lost and uninterested in the concepts of identity management. His speaking style was not the best and the style and content wasn't up to the speakers before him. Perhaps a few real-world examples of things like OpenID in action and what software like Shibolleth look like from a user and admin point of view might have been better. The second session had the talk on the SOA model of web development, which seemed like just another packaging of what I was taught was multi-tier object oriented programming.

The talk by Terence Yim of Yahoo Development was interesting for me as I haven’t spent that much time poking around the offerings like Pipes and YUI. Also a quick look at the SearchMonkey and how this ties in to the Semantic Web and use of microformats and other metadata.

After lunch a nice talk by Chief Frenzoo Simon Newstead with some sneak peeks of what they are up to on the 3-D avatar front. Well structured speech for the crowd. I haven’t looked at your interview with one of the Frenzoo folks, so I’m not sure what overlap there might be.

Then Harris Chan of Microsoft gave lots of demos of Silverlight and what it can bring to web browsing and video.

Last was Sam Lee of Outblaze on identity management. I think a lot of the audience was lost and uninterested in the concepts of identity management. His speaking style was not the best and the style and content wasn’t up to the speakers before him. Perhaps a few real-world examples of things like OpenID in action and what software like Shibolleth look like from a user and admin point of view might have been better.

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