Open Data

The Netflix API has been incredibly successful in getting your favorite movies and TV shows on to hundreds of devices. It is handling billions of requests and is the centerpiece of the Netflix distribution strategy. Given this tremendous success, why are we completely redesigning the API? Come and find out how we plan to make the API better, scale it in the cloud and improve our API's efficiency. Read more.

The Transit Appliance project uses real-time arrival web services, low-cost hardware like the Chumby, a light layer of open source JavaScript business logic and JSON data stores to put transit information in front of users in building lobbies, cafes and other public and private locations at disruptively low costs. Read more.

The most important data is yours, and it's spread everywhere on your devices and on the services you use. Learn about the Locker Project and how to get your own locker up and running with all of your personal data. Then explore the many things you can do with it all in one place, including personal analytics, data-mining, trending, and a rich set of sharing and privacy tools. Read more.

OpenID, OAuth, and other efforts to open up the social web are a dizzying mix of successes and setbacks. Are they being widely adopted, or eclipsed by proprietary alternatives? Are they good enough for mainstream users, or still too geeky? And have their fiercest proponents “sold out” by taking jobs at Google and Facebook, or are they continuing the fight from within? Come hear the inside story. Read more.

Come learn the story of the award winning VanTrash open data app and the opportunities such apps can lead to for sustainable development of open data applications. Luke will show different models that open data hackers can pursue to turn their projects into small businesses. Read more.

Finding the right piece of "prior art" - technical documentation that described a patented piece of technology before the patent was filed - is like finding a needle in a very big haystack. This session will talk about making that process faster and more accurate through the use of natural language processing, graph theory, machine learning, and lots of Python. Read more.

Links that disappear are a major threat for long living sites. This danger can be minimized by creating personal web archives. A next step could be to create a catalogue of these personal web archives to build a decentralized collective memory of the web. This presentation proposes a first step to bootstrap this process. Read more.

Sled (sled.com) is a new experimental productivity tool for small groups of close friends and family members. The session will take a detailed look at how OAuth 2.0 played a central role in the product architecture, and how it influence the product design and open source policy. Read more.

A review of three open data projects, from a developer's perspective: assembling a map of poetry posts, crowd-sourcing photos of Heritage Trees, and showcasing Portland's extensive collection of Public Art. Includes practical tips, such as using CouchDB to manage datastores that continue to evolve based on citizen input. Ideal for anyone hoping to get their community engaged in open data projects. Read more.