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[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/

XTech 2006: âBuilding Web 2.0â â 16-19 May 2006, Amsterdam

Tuesday May 16

09:00
Dojo and the future of the open web
 Ajax day St. John 2
Alex Russell (Dojo Foundation)
Ajax is one step along the path of improved user experience, but it's 
not yet certain the future will be build on open standards. Find out 
why this matters to you, your users, and what the Dojo Foundation is 
doing about it.
Get Started with Ruby on Rails
 Tutorial Volmer 1
Matt Biddulph (hackdiary), Edd Dumbill (Useful Information Company)
Ruby on Rails is a framework for rapidly and elegantly developing 
database-backed web applications. This tutorial provides an overview of 
all Rails features, from AJAX to Apache, demonstrating how development 
time can be significantly reduced.
XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0, and XSLT 2.0 Explained
 Tutorial Volmer 2
Priscilla Walmsley (Datypic)
This tutorial will provide a detailed technical introduction to both 
XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0, and their shared language XPath 2.0. The 
XQuery section will provide attendees with a solid understanding of the 
syntax of XQuery expressions. The discussion of
Microformats from the Ground Up
 Tutorial Volmer 3
Brian Suda (n/a), Ryan King (Technorati, Inc.)
We'll walk attendees through how to implement and publish microformats 
and long the way explain the princples and practices we've discovered 
while developing microformats.

09:45
The Yahoo! User Interface Library
 Ajax day St. John 2
Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, 
written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications 
using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and Ajax.

10:30
Break (30 mins)

11:00
OpenLaszlo as an Ajax platform
 Ajax day St. John 2
Max Carlson (OpenLaszlo.org)
This paper discusses the upcoming plans for OpenLaszlo and how they 
relate to the Ajax community at large. It includes an overview of the 
language, a demo of the current Ajax support, and talks about the 
future of OpenLaszlo as a platform.

11:45
Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax
 Ajax day St. John 2
Jeremy Keith (Clearleft)
Ajax is hot topic. Behind the hype lies a technology that can greatly 
enhance websites. Those enhancements can and should degrade gracefully. 
By applying the principle of progressive enhancement, you can ensure 
that no visitor is left behind.

12:30
Break (90 mins)

14:00
Beefy Web App seeks Sexy AJAX stunner for interface fun and maybe more
 Ajax day St. John 2
Simon Wistow (n/a)
Coders make apps and Designers make things usable and pretty. Yet never 
the twain shall meet - which is a shame because there are good ideas 
out there begging for some collaboration. This talk examines why and 
what can be done to rectify this.
Introduction to XHTML2 and XForms
 Tutorial Volmer 3
Steven Pemberton (W3C/CWI)
XHTML2 gives improved usability, accessibility, structuring, 
internationalization, device independence, integration with the 
semantic web, and better forms processing. The speaker is the chair of 
the W3C groups producing the technologies.

14:45
Developing Enterprise Applications with Ajax and XUL
 Ajax day St. John 2
Sebastian SchÃrmann (Mayflower / Thinkphp)
This talk describes the daily experience of developing an Ajax 
Framework and Applications for Sixt Car Rental in XUL and Javascript. 
It will give you an insight in the practical lessons we learned in the 
last 2 Years.

15:30
Break (30 mins)

16:00
Combining E4X and AJAX
 Ajax day St. John 2
Kurt Cagle (Metaphorical Web)
ECMAScript for XML provides a way to use XML as a native datatype, and 
is being adopted by most major players in the industry. Join Kurt Cagle 
as he explores how the use of AJAX and E4X together will simplify 
programming web applications.

16:45
AjaX with a Capital X!
 Ajax day St. John 2
Mark Schiefelbein (Backbase)
Ajax developers are relying heavily on JavaScript to make web 
interfaces richer. But JavaScript has drawbacks. XML technologies such 
as XPath and XSLT are a great alternative and can be used efficiently 
for managing Ajax-style interactivity.

17:30
Ajax Lightning Demos
 Ajax day St. John 2
Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
Rapid-fire demonstrations of Ajax projects and concepts, chaired by 
Simon Willison of Yahoo!

Wednesday May 17

09:00
How American are Startups?
 Grand Ballroom
Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
Startups are largely an American phenomenon. Why? What is it about 
America that makes startups work there? Could Silicon Valley be 
replicated in another country?

09:45
Building a Participation Platform at Yahoo!
 Grand Ballroom
Jeffrey McManus (Yahoo!)
The Web is moving from a static, one-to-many model to a participatory, 
user-centric model, based on user-generated content, social networks 
and two-way conversations.

10:30
Break (30 mins)

11:00
Putting the BBC's Programme Catalogue on Rails
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Matt Biddulph (hackdiary)
This session will explore the work that went into converting the BBC's 
programme catalogue database from an internal green-screen application 
into a public Web 2.0 application using Ruby on Rails.
SQL, XQuery, and SPARQL: What's Wrong With This Picture?
 Core technologies St. John 1
Jim Melton (Oracle Corporation)
Yet Another Query Language? Am RDF query language, SPARQL, is emerging. 
Is XQuery sufficient for querying RDF in its XML incarnation? Is SQL 
adequate to query RDF in tuple form? We explore these issues and 
position the 3 languages.
Improving the Browser Feed Experience for Users and Developers
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Robert Sayre (IconNicholson)
This presentation will discuss improvements in browser handling of 
syndication feeds (Atom/RSS), and cover strategies for better 
integration with helper applications and online services.
OpenStreetMap: The First Year
 Open data St. John 2
Steve Coast (openstreetmap.org)
OpenStreetMap is creating a free geowiki of the world, primarily street 
maps at present. Why? Geodata generally isn't free or available.

11:45
Putting IBM databases on Rails
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Leon Katsnelson (IBM)
IBM database team (builders of DB2, Informix, and Apache Derby) have 
fallen in love with Ruby on Rails, XML and Web 2.0. Come to this 
session to learn about the projects we have under way and what this can 
do for Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0 enthusiasts.
Using XSLT and XQuery for life-size applications
 Core technologies St. John 1
Michael Kay (Saxonica Limited)
This session surveys the strengths and weaknesses of the XSLT 2.0 and 
XQuery 1.0 languages when it comes to writing real-life, sizeable 
applications for performing data transformations.
Microsummaries in Firefox and on the Web
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Myk Melez (Mozilla Corporation)
Microsummaries are regularly-updated compilations of the most important 
and timely information on web pages. This talk demonstrates how Firefox 
will incorporate microsummaries into its UI, starting with bookmark 
labels
Collaborative Atlas: Post geopolitical boundaries
 Open data St. John 2
Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial Inc.)
Platial is an initiative to create a collaborative atlas that bridges 
people, neighborhoods and nations and enables people to document 
experience through geography. When geography can viewed through the 
eyes of many, geopolitical boundaries begin to melt.

12:30
Break (90 mins)

14:00
Web 2.0 On Speed
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Mark Nottingham (Yahoo! Inc)
Web caching hasn't significantly changed in years, and many believe 
it's a casualty of a more dynamic, real-time "Web 2.0". That doesn't 
have to be the case. This session shows what's possible right now, and 
examines the future of HTTP caching.
Future-proofing your XML data
 Core technologies St. John 1
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)), Eric Miller 
(World Wide Web Consortium)
Future-proofing your data requires not only that it be possible to 
parse it reliably in the future -- you also have to be able to 
understand it. XML helps future proof the syntax of your data; can we 
future-proof the semantics, too? How?
XBL2: Delivering on the promise of XML Binding Language
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Jonas Sicking (Mozilla Corporation)
As CSS allows stylistic attributes to be added to elements, so XBL 
allows behavior to be added. This talk describes the capabilities of 
XBL and explains what is new in XBL2.
Treating Digital Broadcast As Just Another API, and other such 
ruminations
 Open data St. John 2
Tom Loosemore (BBC New Media)
The Internet is not the only source of open data. This session will 
look at what happens when you realise that Digital Broadcasts are just 
nicely structured APIs. It will include demos of some internal BBC 
prototypes.

14:45
Publish-subscribe using Jabber
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Ralph Meijer (Jabber Software Foundation)
Jabber, based on the IETF approved Extensible Messaging and Presence 
Protocol (XMPP), is a streaming XML technology. This session discusses 
the publish-subscribe extensions of Jabber and their applications, like 
Atom-over-XMPP and Extended presence.
Markup for Flat-XML Processing
 Core technologies St. John 1
Daniel Parker (Economic Technology, Inc.)
As XML technologies make gains in mainstream data processing, the need 
grows for markup languages that convert legacy data to XML. This 
presentation identifies use cases for flat-XML conversion, and 
describes a markup vocabulary that addresses them.
Converging Rich-Client and Web Application Development with Mozilla 
XULRunner
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Benjamin Smedberg (Mozilla Corporation)
This presentation will demonstrate the convergence of rich-client and 
web application development and discuss application deployment using 
Mozilla XULRunner.
StreamOnTheFly network
 Open data St. John 2
Roland Alton-Scheidl (PUBLIC VOICE Lab & Vorarlberg University of 
Applied Sciences)
StreamOnTheFly is an open source and open content media network, fed by 
community radio stations, which allows easy exchange of content for 
broadcasting and podCasting.

15:30
Break (30 mins)

16:00
XML, REST, and SOAP at Yahoo
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Parand Darugar (Yahoo Inc.)
This session will discuss the uses of XML, REST and SOAP at Yahoo!, 
focusing on real-life lessons learned from extensive usage over the 
past 5+ years in Yahoo! Search Marketing.
Google Data API
 Core technologies St. John 1
Frank Mantek (Google)
Google recently released the Google Data API, an Atom based protocol to 
retrieve, query and update data on Google properties. The talk 
discusses the protocol and libraries, together with sample code, as 
well as the planned future of the API.
Canvas, SVG, and More: Rich Graphics Capabilities For Web Applications
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Vladimir VukiÄeviÄ (Mozilla Corporation)
This presentation will examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of 
the HTML 'canvas' and SVG for adding rich graphical capabilities to web 
applications. Future browser graphics capabilities, both 2D and 3D will 
also be discuss.
Chopping Up Radio - collaboratively annotating radio programmes
 Open data St. John 2
Tristan Ferne (BBC Radio & Music)
A BBC Radio project developing a wiki-like interface for 
collaboratively chopping up radio programmes into segments and 
annotating and tagging each segment.

16:45
Giving SOAP a REST?
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Mark O'Neill (Vordel)
Over the past 18 months, REST Web Services have enjoyed increasing 
popularity. Although the theory surrounding REST (REpresentational 
State Transfer) is complex, the practice is simple: use 
long-established Web technologies instead of SOAP.
Efficient implementation of content models with numerical occurrence 
constraints
 Core technologies St. John 1
Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh)
W3C XML Schema allows numerical occurrence ranges in content models, to 
e.g. allow between 2 and 10 of some element. A new approach to 
implementing such models is described which is time- and 
space-efficient, even when such ranges are nested.
Layout algorithm improvements for Web user interfaces
 Browser technology Foyer Room
David Baron (Mozilla Corporation)
A discussion of problems with existing standards and potential 
improvements in two areas: layout systems for user interfaces (rather 
than documents) and mechanisms for reordering content to allow the 
author to use good markup and appropriate layout.
The power of declarative thinking
 Open data St. John 2
Steven Pemberton (W3C/CWI)
This talk discusses the requirements for Web Applications, and the 
underpinnings necessary to make Web Applications follow in the same 
spirit that engendered the Web in the first place.

Thursday May 18

09:00
Implementing DITA: Considerations beyond Specialization
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Paul Prescod (Justsystems Inc.)
Interested in DITA, the XML-based standard for written communication? 
This presentation, based on an actual case study, looks at the planning 
and development tasks that are required to implement a DITA authoring 
solution.
The Road to Efficient XML
 Core technologies St. John 1
Robin Berjon (Expway)
Efficient XML has been the topic of heated discussion in the XML 
community, and while things are quieter today much remains to be 
debated now that the W3C is working on a format. This talk will cover 
the past, present, and future of efficient XML.
Revolutionizing the browser user experience
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Ian McKellar (Flock Inc)
This session will present the user interface of the Flock web browser 
and describe how the project is attempting to update the browser 
experience to enable sharing, collaboration and publishing.
Ignorance is not a defence
 Open data St. John 2
Suw Charman (Open Rights Group)
Our digital selves are being increasingly surveilled, tracked and 
controlled by government and business alike, while our rights to 
privacy and free speech are eroded. What are the most worrying threats, 
and how you can protect your digital rights?

09:45
Case Study of an Implementation of XML Authoring Within the Open 
University
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Sean Scannell (eXiMaL Limited)
Case Study of an implementation of XML authoring in the Open 
University. Whilst Case Studies sometimes identify non-transferable 
experience, this contains practical information beneficial in guiding 
any organisation in the introduction of XML authoring.
XML Offload and Acceleration with Cell Broadband Engine
 Core technologies St. John 1
Stefan Letz (IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH), Roland Seiffert (IBM 
Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH)
This presentation describes the design, implementation, and evaluation 
of a high-performance XML parser on the Cell Broadband Engine processor 
architecture as a part of a system architecture for XML offload and 
acceleration.
Etna, a wysiwyg XML RELAXNG- and Gecko-based editor
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Daniel GLAZMAN (Disruptive Innovations)
Presentation of the new wysiwyg XML editor based on Gecko, and its 
underlying implementation of RELAX NG.
An open (data) can of worms
 Open data St. John 2
Paul Hammond (BBC)
Open data is not a panacea, and presents as many questions as answers. 
Technology can only solve some of these issues, this presentation 
outlines some of the other, more fundamental, problems.

10:30
Break (30 mins)

11:00
The Viper Solution: A Data Persistence Model using XML and PHP
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Salvador Ledezma (IBM)
This session will focus on a data access and persistence XML model and 
API that allows programmers to develop simple web applications that 
require a database.
SPARQLing Services
 Core technologies St. John 1
Leigh Dodds (Ingenta)
This paper will review the SPARQL specifications and its potential 
benefits to Web 2.0 applications. Focusing on the SPARQL protocol for 
RDF, the paper will provide implementation guidance for developers 
interested in adding SPARQL support to their APIs.
Building Rich, Encapsulated Widgets Using XBL, XForms and SVG
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Mark Birbeck (x-port.net Ltd.)
From calendar controls to sliders to maps, the end-user experience is 
vastly improved if different types of data have different user 
interfaces. This session shows how XBL, SVG and XForms can be used to 
produce powerful widgets.
Native to a Web of Data: Designing a part of the Aggregate Web
 Open data St. John 2
Tom Coates (Yahoo!)
What are the architectural elements of the emerging web of data; how do 
you build services to thrive in this environment? What needs to change 
and what needs to return to fundamental principles? How do we bring it 
all together to make something awesome?

11:45
Ditching the database: XML and the PHP webapp
 Applications Grand Ballroom
David Megginson (Megginson Technologies Ltd.)
How far can a PHP-driven web application get using XML files instead of 
a database? This presentation looks at an ongoing experiment using REST 
both outside and inside a web application, discussing the pros and cons 
of XML as a dynamic storage medium.
Adding SPARQL Support to MySQL
 Core technologies St. John 1
Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C/ERCIM)
SPARSQL gives existing MySQL clients (PHP, DBI, ODBC, JDBC) RDF query 
access to MySQL databases. Learn how SPARQL support in MySQL provides 
the efficiency of relational databases with the versatility of RDF 
query.
Dynamic SVG generation under Firefox 1.5 using JavaScript, XML and XSLT
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Thomas Meinike (Merseburg University of Applied Sciences / Department 
Computer Science and Communication Systems)
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 came out including a native SVG implementation. In 
the context of other technologies like JavaScript, XML and XSLT itâs 
possible to create graphical content on the fly. Basic facts and 
practical know-how will be presented.
Developing for the Personal InfoCloud
 Open data St. John 2
Thomas Vander Wal (InfoCloud Solutions, Inc.)
Thomas will explain his Model of Attraction, to frame the constraints 
of developing across devices and platforms. He will use his Personal 
InfoCloud to frame digital information convergence for the person so to 
design our information for use and reuse.

12:30
Break (90 mins)

14:00
Content modelling at the BBC using RDF and OWL
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Brendan Quinn (BBC)
To meet the BBC's requirements for content model management, we built 
an OWL ontology in ProtÃgÃ. Users of the tool can export content models 
to our CMS from the underlying RDF. Issues include applying the 
open-world model to closed-world problems.
Building and Managing a Massive Triple Store: An Experience Report
 Core technologies St. John 1
Katie Portwin (Ingenta plc), Priya Parvatikar (Ingenta plc)
The paper will focus on the practical challenges involved in creating 
and maintaining a very large triple store. Our repository contains 
bibliographic metadata spanning 17 million articles; it has 200 million 
triples from a range of vocabularies.
The Intelligent Design of Microformats
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Ryan King (Technorati, Inc.)
An overview of Microformats and how they can be enable able publishing 
data for the Semantic Web.
Going Horizontal: Comparing Open Data Vocabularies Across Domains
 Open data St. John 2
Marc de Graauw (Marc de Graauw IT)
XML-based open standard vocabularies are rapidly developing in - not 
across - many vertical domains. Where is the common ground, and what 
can be gained by standardization? What works and what doesn't in 
building vocabularies?

14:45
UML modeling for XML, a practical example
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Marchal Benoit (Pineapplesoft)
The session will discuss the use of UML modeling for XML applications, 
including the pros and cons, practical steps, implementation strategy 
and project samples.
A high performance RDFS store using a Generic Object Model
 Core technologies St. John 1
Bradley Bebee (SAIC), Bijan Parsia (Clark & Parsia, LLC), Bryan 
Thompson (SAIC), Michael Personick (SAIC), Martyn Cutcher (Cut the Crap 
Software)
High performance databases are required to support the semantic 
alignment and query of RDF data. We will present on a new high 
performance open-source RDFS store based on a Generic Object Model and 
its application to federate and query RDF data.
RDF/A: The Easy Way to Publish Your Metadata
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Mark Birbeck (x-port.net Ltd.)
RDF/A is a new, and simpler, way of adding metadata to documents, in 
such a way that the document contains its own metadata--making it easy 
to turn a home page into a FoaF file or RSS feed.
ODF: Our Document Future
 Open data St. John 2
Donna Benjamin (Open Source Industry Australia)
The National Archive of Australia was one of the first govt agencies in 
the world to adopt XML formats for the digital preservation of 
documents. This presentation examines Australia's part in the Open 
Source, Open Data, OpenDocument ecosphere.

15:30
Break (30 mins)

16:00
Search engines for Semantic Web knowledge
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Software agents will need specialized search engines to find relevant 
and trustworthy knowledge on the Semantic Web. We discuss the 
underlying requirements and OWL and present Swoogle, a crawler-based 
indexing and retrieval engine for RDF documents.
Internationalization and Localization of XML: Introducing "ITS"
 Core technologies St. John 1
Felix Sasaki (W3C), Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford University), Christian 
Lieske (SAP)
Description of a new markup vocabulary called "Internationalization Tag 
Set" (ITS), which is used for Internationalization and Localization of 
XML documents and schemas.
Standardising Web Applications: Rich Web Clients at W3C
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Dean Jackson (W3C)
The W3C Rich Web Client Activity will describe its objectives and 
current status, and request community feedback.
Social Bookmarking For Scientists - or The Best Of Both Worlds
 Open data St. John 2
Ben Lund (Nature Publishing Group)
This presentation describes Connotea, an experimental service that 
marries social bookmarking and tagging with existing academic 
information tools. It also highlights a challenge - how best to link 
web resources to data about those resources.

16:45
Building the Semantic Web at NASA: People, Organizations, Projects, and 
Skills
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Kendall Clark (XML.com)
A discussion of the ways in which NASA is using Semantic Web 
technologies like RDF and OWL to get a handle on its very complex data 
problem.
Managing Multilingual Legislation With XML
 Core technologies St. John 1
Werner Donnà (Independent consultant)
Presentation of a system for publishing the European Combined 
Nomenclature legislation in twenty languages.
XForms: an alternative to Ajax?
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Erik Bruchez (Orbeon, Inc.)
In this presentation, we show how today's hybrid, Ajax-based XForms 
implementations fit into the "Web 2.0" landscape by delivering exciting 
features beyond the initial promises of XForms and providing an 
alternative to low-level Ajax development.
Making Connections: Exploring new forms of semantic browsing
 Open data St. John 2
Liz Turner (None)
A look at ways of enriching user experience of complex data sets, 
through taxonomy, visualization, imagery and interaction

Friday May 19

09:00
The Ning Playground: A Springboard for new Social Software
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Yoz Grahame (Ning, Inc.)
The Ning Playground provides excellent, free opportunities for those 
looking to design, develop or host new social applications and web 
services. This session covers Ning's many features for developers of 
new and existing apps.
Chameleon XML models
 Core technologies St. John 1
Uche Ogbuji (Fourthought, Inc.)
Variant XML formats within a domain are often similar core models with 
superficial differences in representation. Advanced XML design 
practices allow a common model to govern multiple syntactic forms.
Bringing Web 2.0 to Mobile Devices
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Michael Smith (Opera Software)
Mobile web browers have in the past lacked the support needed for 
enabling use of so-called "rich Internet applications" on mobile 
handsets. But the "next generatation" of mobile web browsers has 
changed that, dramatically.
Embedded RDF
 Open data St. John 2
Ian Davis (Talis Information Ltd.)
Embedded RDF is a pattern for enriching content by interweaving 
existing XHTML markup with RDF. The method used requires no new markup 
so the XHTML can still be validated, is fully CSS compliant and will 
not affect browser behaviour.

09:45
Django: Web development on journalism deadlines
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
Django is a full-stack Python web framework initially created to handle 
the challenges posed by a fast-moving newsroom environment. It has 
gained a strong community following in the ten months since its release 
as an open-source project.
Treebind: an API to bind them all
 Core technologies St. John 1
Eric van der Vlist (DYOMEDEA)
Treebind is a generic Java Open Source API which binds a number of 
different hierarchical and graphs data model (XML, RDF, LDAP and Java 
objects are currently supported). This presentation is also a unique 
opportunity to compare these data models.
Mobile Web Applications
 Browser technology Foyer Room
HÃkon Lie (Opera Software)
The web is shifting from being document-centric to being 
application-centric. This presentation will describe the opportunities 
and challenges in running Web applications on mobile devices.
GeoRSS: Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds
 Open data St. John 2
Mikel Maron (OpenStreetMap)
With the huge potential of GeoRSS to leverage the "RSS Ecosystem" for 
the Geospatial Web, GeoRSS.org was created with the goals of promoting 
interoperability, upwards compatibility with GML, and extending W3C geo 
for line and polygon geometries.

10:30
Break (30 mins)

11:00
Slidy - an web based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Dave Raggett (W3C)
Web-based editor and slide presentation tool using XHTML, CSS and 
JavaScript
XSieve: extending XSLT with the roots of XSLT
 Core technologies St. John 1
Oleg Parashchenko (Saint-Petersburg State University)
XSLT has roots in DSSSL. DSSSL has roots in the Lisp dialect Scheme. 
Now, XSieve interweaves both XSLT and Scheme, forming a more powerful 
XML processing language. XSieve is one of the successful Google "Summer 
of Code" 2005 projects.
Mini Map - A web page visualization method for mobile phones
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Andrei Popescu (Nokia Research Center, Nokia Corporation), Roland 
Geisler (Nokia), Elina Vartiainen (Nokia Research Center, Nokia 
Corporation)
Mini Map is a new Web page visualization method for Web browsers 
running on mobile phones. It preserves the original look and feel of 
the page, while providing means for efficiently navigating to the 
interesting content.
Semantics Through the Tag
 Open data St. John 2
David Beckett (Yahoo! Inc)
This paper will discuss tagging unplugged from the tagging services 
that build them using a series of RDF models to ask 'What is imporant 
about a tag?' and providing ways to go from the tags to what people 
think they are about.

11:45
Amazon Web Services: Fueling Innovation and Entrepeneurship
 Applications Grand Ballroom
Jeff Barr (Amazon)
Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr reviews Amazonâs web services, 
including Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Mechanical Turk, 
Amazon E-Commerce Service, Alexa Web Information Service, and Alexa Web 
Search Platform.
xfy: XML RAD with IBM DB2 Viper
 Core technologies St. John 1
Yukihiko Negoro (Justsystems Inc.)
In this presentation, we will show how xfy and IBM DB2 Viper can 
implement UltraRAD for XML applications, and change and accelerate 
utilization of information in companies.
Sharing Places â find, remix and share located media with the world
 Browser technology Foyer Room
Peter Ferne (Mista)
Sharing Places is a Web 2.0 application which enables and encourages 
users to combine GPS tracks, text, photo, video and audio annotations 
to author digital mediascapes, tag them and publish them for others to 
find, remix and share.
The End of the Open Internet?: Network Service and Security in Web 2.0
 Open data St. John 2
Michael Leventhal (Tarari, Inc.)
Does application-aware networking threaten the "open internet" - where 
every message is handled equally? Ironically, the very power unleased 
by exchanging XML on the internet threatens, in the eyes of some, Web 
2.0 goals of openness and innovation.

12:30
Break (90 mins)

14:00
Building Software With Human Intelligence: What Amazon Mechanical Turk 
Can Do For You and Your Customers
 Grand Ballroom
Jeff Barr (Amazon)
What if computers could make use of people? Jeff Barr will explain how 
the Amazon Mechanical Turk API does this, allowing computers to 
integrate Artificial Artificial Intelligence directly into their 
processing by making requests of humans.

14:45
JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web
 Grand Ballroom
Brendan Eich (Mozilla Corporation)
JavaScript 2 will be finalised in 2007. To help migration an open 
source JS2-to-JS compiler is being developed, making JS2 a reality in 
2006. This compiler and the new features of JS2 will be demonstrated by 
the inventor of JavaScript.





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