Niall Kennedy
- Program Committee, Web 2.0 Fundamentals
- Workshop: Web 2.0 Basics
Web feed and widget syndication expert. Producer of the annual Widget Summit conference. Creator of Startup Search market intelligence product.
Writes code in Python, Django, and YUI. Experimenting with Google App Engine. Ask me about widgets.
Work history includes RSS platform at Microsoft, live blog search at Technorati, online shopping comparison at PriceGrabber.com and Nextag, and institutional investment consulting in private markets.
Formerly coached soccer. Irish citizen. Coffee geek.
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Blog Posts
Google App Engine optimizations
--I have learned a few App Engine best practices over over the past month and would like to share some best practices for App Engine development gain...
Announcing Widget Summit 2008
--I am hosting a my third annual Widget Summit conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.
Customizing conference speeches for your audience
--Over the past few weeks new conversations have emerged regarding how conferences must change to better suit their audience. As a conference produce...
Google App Engine for developers
--Google App Engine lets any Python developer execute CGI-driven Web applications, store its results, and serve static content from a fault-tolerant ...
iPhone web app performance
--The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! just released a detailed performance analysis of web applications on the iPhone. Yahoo! analyzed the fu...
iPhone web app performance
--The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! just released a detailed performance analysis of web applications on the iPhone. Yahoo! analyzed the fu...
iPhone web app performance
--The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! just released a detailed performance analysis of web applications on the iPhone. Yahoo! analyzed the fu...
Sniff browser history for improved user experience
--The social web has filled our websites with too much third-party clutter as we figure out the best way to integrate content with the favorite sites...
Data interchange for the social web
--Data portability is only useful if outside systems can comprehend the exported data. Well-described and interoperable data sets open new possibilit...
Data Portability, Authentication, and Authorization
--In this post I will take a deeper look at the current best practices of the social Web from the point of view of its major data hubs. We will take ...
Bookmarks:
Google Metastore
Summary of Google Megastore presentation by Jonas Karlsson and Philip Zeyliger at SIGMOD 2008. Closer to App Engine implementation than BigTable '06 paper.
Rojo feed reader shutting down
Rojo is now just a newsletter and blog roundup. Looks like they are going for The Best Week Ever type of audience. Six Apart recommends you export your feeds and remove subscription chicklets.
Forbes: Why San Francisco is #1
Forbes magazine names San Francisco the top city for young professionals. "More of the class of 1998 from Harvard, Stanford, Rice, Princeton, Duke and Northwestern picked San Francisco as home, 10 years out of school, compared with any other metro."
QR codes using Google Chart API
Google Chart API now supports QR code generation.
ratproxy - passive web application security assessment from Google
Website security probe from Google includes tests for XSS, XSRF, SSL man-in-the-middle, Flash decompiles, harmful JavaScript, and other possible flaw candidates.
Powerset joins Windows Live Search
Windows Live Search announces the acquisition of Powerset. Team will remain in San Francisco, adding to Microsoft's developer base in the city.
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