Juli 2011
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A busy autumn lies ahead
… at least conference wise. Next to the OSCON in Portland next week I have been accepted at quite some other conferences in the next month:
First stop will be the Devlink Conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I’ll be doing three talks:
Opening up the Social Web - Standards that are bridging the Islands
Distributed Identities with OpenID
Crossing the boundaries of web...
Bye, bye VZnet, Hello ResearchGate
I already announced it on Twitter a few weeks ago, but it’s time to make an official small blog post about it as well.
After nearly three years, I’ll be leaving VZnet at the end of August. My time there was really great. I learned a lot, wrote my bachelor thesis, launched OpenSocial, OAuth2 and VZ-ID, OEmbed and a lot of other stuff, started speaking at national and international...
Juni 2011
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Speaking at OSCON
Yay, my JavaScript Mashup talk was accepted at this year’s OSCON (http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18419) and I’m very much looking forward to come to Portland to this great and hugh conference (just have a look at the full schedule). Also I’m very grateful for the ability to present this talk a second time, since doing it this week at the IPC was a lot of...
April 2011
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Upcoming conferences
There are some upcoming conferences in the next weeks where I’ll be speaking or travelling to. Here are the details:
First I’ll be speaking at the Quo Vadis Game Development conference in Berlin on the creation of OpenSocial games:
How to create social games for millions of users
Social games have become very popular in the last years. In this workshop I will show you how to create...
Februar 2011
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CodeStock 2011 Speaker Voting
The speaker voting at this years CodeStock conference (June 3rd/4th in Knoxville, TN) has just opened. I really like the fact that all attendees can vote on the sessions they want to see. So if you want me there and hear about some interesting stuff regarding OpenSocial, OpenID and it’s problems, the Federated Social Web and the protocols around it, or some advanced JavaScript Mash-Up...
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Recap NJIT OpenSocial Hackathon
Last weekend (Feb. 5th - 6th) I was invited to speak about OpenSocial at the OpenSocial Hackathon organized by Elsevier and the New Jersey Institute of Technolog (NJIT). Now that I have completely slept off my jet lag (two 8h flights with a 6h time difference within 4 days is really no fun at all) it’s finally time for a short recap:
The whole hackathong was an amazing event, relaxed...
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IPC 2011 Spring Edition
I’m very happy to annonce that I’ll be speaking at the International PHP Conference this spring in Berlin:
Mashing up JavaScript – Advanced techniques for modern web apps
Speaker: Bastian Hofmann
Nowadays many modern web applications are solely relying on JavaScript to render their frontend. But if you want to create mashups, load data from many different places or include ...
Januar 2011
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Confoo 2011
I’m very happy to have been chosen to speak about OpenID and OpenSocial at this years Confoo conference in Montreal, Canada (March, 9th to March, 11th).
Here arte the details:
Distributed Identities with OpenID
The era of many separated logins and identities in the web is slowly coming to an end. Currently many of the big players are spurring this on with their own proprietary...
Dezember 2010
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First VZ GeekCon
On December 7th we organized the first GeekCon in Berlin. It was a very fun event and I’m looking forward to the next event.
This time I did two sessions. I introduced the technical background of VZ-ID and VZ-Login and I spoke about the Federated Social Web.
Here are the slides:
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OpenSocial Europe Summit 2010
On December 6th I attended the OpenSocial Europe Summit which was hosted by SurfNET in Utrecht (NL). The main focus was on the usage of OpenSocial in education software and it was great to see OpenSocial being adopted in new and different contexts outside of classical social networks.
I also was able to do two presentations, one on OpenSocial App programming and an impromtu session on the...
November 2010
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Browsergames Forum 2010
I had the opportunity to do two talks about OpenSocial on this years Browsergames Forum in Offenbach, Germany (near Frankfurt am Main).
Here are the slides:
Oktober 2010
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WebTech 2010
I’ll be speaking at this years WebTech conference in Mainz about OpenID and the Federated Social Web.
The Details:
Opening up the Social Web - Standards that are bridging the Islands
Social networks are not closed off to the rest of the web anymore. Various standards like ActivityStreams, PubSubHubbub, WebFinger, OpenSocial, Salmon, OEmbed, XAuth or OExchange are emerging to open them...
Juni 2010
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Slides - Jazoon 2010 (Zürich, Switzerland)
OpenSocial done right - Integrating OpenSocial for 16 million users
In my session I will introduce the OpenSocial API and its benefits. I will show how to implement an OpenSocial container into a website with the help of the Apache Shindig project while setting a focus on data privacy, security and scalability. Successful example will be the integration of OpenSocial into Germany’s...
Mai 2010
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Slides - next10 (Berlin, Germany)
Social apps done right
One year ago we were faced with the task of providing an app platform for the 16 million users of our three Social networks studiVZ, meinVZ and schülerVZ. Our aim: to create the best social app platform out there based on Open Social. Today, five month after launch, we want to share the story of how we accomplished these aims. We will show how apps are performing on our...
November 2009
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WebTech 2009
Together with Sebastian Galonska I did my first talk about OpenSocial on the 2009 WebTech Conference in Karlsruhe. It was a great event and I’m looking forward to the next opportunities to further promote an open social web.
Here are the slides: