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 – 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 – Giorgio Natili
Giorgio Natili is the founder of GNstudio. He worked in the web field for many years before expanding into mobile development. When you come from web, sometimes your realize that a web server just isn’t enough. Sometimes, you gotta roll up your sleeves and create a tool to get the job done.
The thing about a [...]
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 – 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 – Attendee Badges
Attending InsideMobile? Make sure you grab the attendee badge and represent. You’ll be in awesome company, with industry luminaries (yeah, i said it, luminaries, that’s the kind of event it’s gonna be) from many of the leading platforms in the mobile space.
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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