Category: web standards

SxSW Panel Online Finally!

You can go get the audio from our panel at SXSW (Convincing Your Company to Embrace Web Standards to get the slides) over on their podcasts page, or get the mp3 directly.\ I just listened to it (Steve listened to it to too, and we traded jokes) and here are my totally shallow observations after […]

S5 and Presentation Remotes

I use s5 for all my presentations, and I’ve been giving a lot of them the past couple years. Although I’ve been tempted, I haven’t yet broken down and purchased a presentation remote, because I’m not sure any of them will work with: A mac arrow keys in a web browser\ So, all you s5-presentation-givin’-standards-nerds […]

Microformats for APIs

There was a fun discussion at Mashup Camp about Microformats for APIs. It started as a question about using microformats for documenting APIs, which I think was resolved fairly quickly by deciding to try it using XMDP. There’s a short example on the wiki now that I came up with. It’s not complete and doesn’t […]

I Left My Bowels In San Francisco

I’ve been good, I swear. Maybe it was the carpaccio last night. Maybe it was the chocolate mousse. Maybe it was something else, like the amorphous blob we had for lunch yesterday. Anyway, I skipped the end of Supernova today to spent some quality time with the hotel bathroom.\ But, yesterday was good. Rohit Khare […]

Notes from Supernova: Personal Infosphere

This panel’s all about how we can keep up of all the information that comes in every day. We’re\ h4. Dalton from imeem We’re reaching some limit as to the amount of information we can handle. imeem creates both an IM client and web client Instant messaging is useful as a communications tool, but about […]

My Favorite AIM Pages Feature

Since it launched yesterday, I can talk about it now. With the whole microformat thing, we’ve started thinking about the pages created in AIM Pages as mini web services, and the first step to doing really cool things with that is being able to pull out modules from the page so you can use them […]

AOL Is Fun Again!

Things at AOL are changing, and it feels great to be in the middle of it. Every day, it becomes more and more clear that a small number of people are driving gigantic changes all throughout the company, and I’m both honored and a little nervous to be considered part of that group. It makes […]

How I Write Presentations

I do a lot of presentations now, and because I’m the “web standards guy” I can’t go around doing them in Powerpoint or Keynote (I’ve tried using both and yuck, they’re not made for writing). Over the past year or so, I’ve tried a couple different things, but here’s the system I’ve got down, and […]

Supernova 2006, AIM Pages and Microformats

Presenting to The Webfather

I just did my first presentation at WWW on our microformat, and who was in the audience, but Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web. There was a moment, sitting at the front of the room, waiting for my turn to present, that I got really nervous. I’m not normally nervous before I speak in […]