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 – Hands on with Mobile Design
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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: 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 
InsideMobile – Speaker line up filling out nicely!
The speaker roster for InsideMobile is almost completely full! We’re thinking by next week, we’ll have a full roster, which if you’ve noticed the list on the left hand side, is already really impressive!
Phil Libin of Evernote will be talking about mobile applications are changing the way we do things, from personal productivity to gaming. [...]
Call For Papers, Now Open!
InsideMobile will be at our famous stomping ground, eBay Town Hall, birthplace of 360|Flex and 360|iDev. InsideMobile will be 2 days: One day of pre-conference training to get hands-on with the various techs. The second day is a multi-track event, filled with traditional speaker led sessions.
You know Tom and I, so this won’t be some weak sauce marketing event showing off “Roadmaps, future features, etc” that’s for the birds. This will be hands on and/or deep dive nitty gritty details from developers actually building in these platforms.
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