PayPal X Innovate 2009 is next week!
Sadly Tom and I won’t be at Innovate 2009. Not for lack of interest either. With Tom consulting now, and me being swamped with Conference work, well, our travel budget has temporarily shrunk. Why should you go? PayPal is opening up its platform to developers. For any developer who has needed a flexible, global payments solution, this is a very big deal. It will simply life for many developers who have struggled with integrating payments. As well, it opens up the doors for finally making money from doing what you are passionate about, something we both encourage.
I can’t even tell you how many times as a developer, AND a consumer I’ve wished for better integration with payment solutions. Not to mention, now that micro-payments are becoming the norm, it just makes sense to make collecting money easier for everyone involved.
Check out the event details, They’ve sold out, but if you’re local, they’ve got limited onsite registration space, don’t miss out!
The PayPal team has a great speaker lineup, including Tim O’Reilly as one of the keynotes. Attending will be some of the most innovative developers in the world of mobile, consumer electronics and financial services. Early adopters will demonstrate how they’re already building businesses on the PayPal platform.
All conference attendees will receive exclusive access to not-yet-released PayPal APIs. You’ll also get the chance to work directly with PayPal engineers and other developers during hands-on labs and code-and-build sessions and interact with PayPal’s leadership team.
InsideMobile – Speaker slides
We’re sorry this took so long, but here’s the presentation materials that we’ve collected so far from our speakers. They’re hosted at Sliderocket under InsideMobile, but take a look here.
We’ve also got one we couldn’t put into SlideShare, here. It’s Mahi’s Tonnect Platform Preso.
InsideMobile – What’s the Plan?
After that it’s 4 rooms, of sessions 20 or so in all! During lunch (Don’t worry we’re providing lunch, you don’t have to go anywhere) Samsung will be providing some edutainment on the patio.
To end the day, we’ve got Phil Libin of Evernote, holding a single mega session keynote style. We’re all going to be together in one room to hear what Phil has to say.
After that we’ve got a two part panel of industry experts, covering ‘The Evolution of Mobile’ and ‘The monetization of Mobile’
InsideMobile – The Speakers – Jeff Haynie
Sadly, Dan Burcaw won’t be able to present at InsideMobile… 
He had a family emergency crop up and in the true spirit of all emergencies it didn’t care that he was supposed to be partying with us in San Jose.
Luckily we had two awesome presenters in the wings, should a spot open. One is Jeff Haynie, of Appcelerator!
His session, titled, “Tap into the Growing iPhone and Android Market Using Your Web development Skills” will focus on how developers can leverage the skills they’ve already got, have in fact had for a long time in many cases, to build incredible mobile applications, that run natively on the iPhone and Android.
InsideMobile – The Speakers – Arno Puder
Wish you could deploy your mobile apps to more than one platform? Who doesn’t!? Sure you can create a website that’s optimized for the ’small screen’ but that’s not really a native app!
XMLVM might be just what you’re looking for! Arno Puder will be doing a session introducing attendees to XMLVM, which allows you to write your code once and connect to platform specific mobile APIs, and even desktop APIs.
InsideMobile – The Speakers – Frank Ableson
Mixed in with our regular technology agnostic sessions, like Mobile Design, and mobile trends, we’ve thrown in some great Hands on Sessions in our 4th room.
Frank Ableson, has joined us to do a hands on session, in creating a mobile Field Test app on Android!
The outline for the session is below, you can see it’s [...]
InsideMobile – Hands on with Mobile Design
One of toughest things facing mobile developers is mobile design. How do you plan your big application for such a small space? Most people have a hard time with 1024 x 768 resolution on a 19 inch monitor. How do you plan for say 480 x 320 on a 3.5″ display? What about this touch [...]
InsideMobile – Hands on with PhoneGap
We met the Phonegap team at our 360|iDev conference this past March, and were supremely impressed. Nitobi is an awesome company with lots of smart folks writing code.
Phonegap is an awesome Open Source project created by Nitobi to allow web developers access to mobile platforms with a minimum of trouble, learning a new language.
Sunday from 8:00am – 12:00pm you’ll be able to get hands on Phonegap training from the experts who wrote it.
Unlike traditional mobile web app creation, where you’re essentially building a web page customized for mobile devices, Phonegap allows web developers to leverage platform APIs specific to each platform; iPhone accelerometer for example.
InsideMobile – The Speakers – Maximiliano Firtman
Today is possible to create mobile offline (and installed) applications using web-related technologies (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash) and additional APIs. WRT for Nokia-Symbian, WebUI for Motorola, WebOS for Palm Pre, online/offline Webapps for iPhone 3.0, widgets for BlackBerry, and other mobile widget platforms for Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia S40, Windows Mobile, Opera and Yahoo!. There is also a new hybrid paradigm using the best of the web technologies and a native development, like the PhoneGap (Note: there’s a 1/2 day PhoneGap training session on Sunday) project that can be distributed in the AppStore. What can we do using this technology? what are the differences between platforms? Can we distribute them in the Application Stores? What compatibility do we have with web standards? What kind of applications are best-suited for this platforms? How to access location, contacts, accelerometer, SMS, home screen and Internet for each platform? What about security and privacy of my code? Let’s see how to create mobile web 2.0 mashups ported to many platforms in a couple of minutes using web knowledge.
InsideMobile – The Speakers: Robert Rice Augmented Reality
Earlier, Venturebeat wrote a good article (leaving a few companies out) about AR in the mobile space, which is frankly awesome. As an iPhone owner, I really hope Apple opens this door for developers.
AR is for lack of a better term, frakkin’ awesome! Imagine aiming your mobile phone at a billboard and seeing much more than just the picture. Discounts? directions to the nearest store? a link to open a chat with a sales rep? Or maybe just digital graffiti 
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