TOOLS Europe 2008 

I created a Wiki for fleshing out the Web 2.0 patterns that emerged at the workshop: http://patternrefinery.com/ The workshop's attendees should have received an email with their login information. Anybody else who attended TOOLS and would like to contribute needs to contact me about getting on the Wiki.

Day 1: Design Exercise

Problems + Solutions (1)
-Key-value store: Amazon Dynamo/S3, BigTable (Google)
-Streaming: Hulu, YouTube streaming (not Flash)
-Client time synchro service: NTP, MMORPG
-Social network integration services: Oauth, OpenID/Passport
-Mash-up engine: PopFly, Yahoo! pipes
-Monetization (social cash -> $, analytics, instrumentation): AdSense, witkey.com, SiteMeter, Elance

Problems + Solutions (2)
-Video: Vime, Nicovideo.jp, Jaman.com
-Mood: Musicovery, Yahoo! IM, Nabaztag.com
-Friend states: Twitter
IM: Facebook/MySpace, Twitter, Shoutbox
-Recommendations: Tuneglue, Netflix, Facebook

Some Emerging Themes
-Taxonomy of social networks
-Social profile aggregation: InfoCard
-Integration of services transparent from user
(Tim O'Reilly’s innovation by assembly)
-Privacy (who sees what)
-Biggest pile wins
-Cooler than thou

Day 1: Presentation Summaries

Gadget Platform Notes
-Open platform
-Support several technologies (JavaScript, Silverlight, Flash)
-Package applications as gadgets
-Extend instrumentation to include client
-Provider feeds raw content, users create personalized mashups

Services Notes
-Execution context awareness
-Scale services up and down
--Add more capacity quickly, only when you need it
--Remove capacity when you no longer need it
-Leverage analytics
-Abstract out the hardware
--Cloud
--Virtualization

The workshop schedule comprises presentations, brainstorming, and pattern mining sessions spread over 2 days. It is now available from the workshop's web site: http://labs.live.com/Web+20...

I'll be around Sunday evening, let's catch up!

On Sunday (June 29) the final game of the European football championships (www.euro2008.com) will start at 8.45pm. Zürich is one of the host cities and it will be very crowded that night. I can recommend you to visit the fanzone (http://en.euro2008.uefa.com...=3241/fanzones/index.html) an the fanmile between Bellevue and Central (even if you are not really interested in soccer)!

Is there anybody interested in getting together Sunday (June 29) evening? At least a couple of us will arrive to ZRH prior to the conference. It's been 13 years since I've been to Turicum so suggestions about potential venues are welcome.

The online program showed the Web 2.0 pattern mining workshop as a 1-day event. That was an error: the workshop starts Monday and wraps up on Tuesday--a 2-day event. It has been fixed--thanks Richard and Marco!

Welcome to the social site for TOOLS Europe 2008! Anybody attending the conference could register here. In fact, I highly recommend it.

I created this site to facilitate networking: it lets one identify in advance the people they'd like to meet. It also allows others to learn about those registered, and signal whether they are interested in meeting in person.

The system has network effect. Please register early to foster the formation of social networks at the conference. Feel free to suggest other questions that you'd like the participants to answer when registering.