So, Mashup Camp ended about a week and a half ago and I’ve now had some time to reflect on what happened. While at the conference, we were running around all day doing demos, teaching people how to use the software, and meeting conference attendees and other sponsors. All in all the conference was a lot of fun. It was refreshing to be in a less structured conference environment even though it occasionally meant that things were a little more hectic. It was also refreshing to be around people who feel passionately about mashups.
We here at Mozenda have always felt like the Web Agent Builder would be very well suited for handling the data layer of mashups. The conference featured a number of sponsors whose software allowed users to easily link up data or data feeds to create the front-end mashup that users would see which was exciting for us because we were able to show users how they could build those data feeds. It was also great to be able to show our software to people from Zembly, WetPaint, Calais, IBM, and Yahoo and see how impressed they were with it.
It was also interesting to listen to Tim O’Reilly’s keynote address on how the Internet is the new OS. He talked about how the web holds so many of the applications we use regularly—email, news, search, documents (with Google docs), chat, etc. Mashups are also great candidates to contribute to the Internet OS because they allow users to replace derive more meaning from a single source than from multiple other sources. As mashups help people gain ground on the massive amounts of information they are presented with, they will become a necessary destination, and an integral part of people’s online usage.
All in all, I would say Mashup Camp was a successful unconference both in general and for Mozenda specifically. It was great to see people getting creative mashup data with Mozenda, plugging it in to a mashup enabling software, and then wowing the attendees with it. Hopefully, we continue to see providing innovation in the mashup space, and hopefully Mozenda can continue helping people get the data they need for the mashups they’re building.
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