BarCamp Albuquerque
Posted by Daniel Lyons Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:47:00 GMT
Where to begin? I was only there on Sunday, so I no doubt missed some great talks, but I want to tell you about two of the ones I saw on Sunday.
Jack Moffitt told us about his awesome startup, Chesspark which lets you see people playing and play others and chat completely interactively, using XMPP and BOSH. It’s hard for me to overemphasize this stuff. Marketing people would call this “game changing technology,” because that’s exactly what it is. It’s hard to imagine how Comet could defeat this, especially if you’re running ejabberd. If you want an interactive website that scales, this is precisely the technology you’re going to want.
Gabe Ortiz talked about his technology startup, Rarefied Technologies, making StupidFilter, which I’d actually read about on Reddit some months ago. Knowing how the technology works just makes me more impressed; he built it on Flex (as in Lex and Yacc, not Adobe) and libsvm. Amazing stuff! It never would have occurred to me to do NLP with Lex.
David Thomas spoke about monitoring networks, which was very interesting. And his son actually gave a talk on using Scratch, which I told Liz I’m going to get her on ASAP. :) (“Are you going to find a pair of glasses for me next?”)
All in all, I’m shocked and impressed at the quality of folk we have here in Albuquerque. Really hardcore, extremely motivated people working on interesting stuff locally. Who knew? My mind is racing with applications for the technology Jack showed us.
Very cool stuff!
