Mashup Camp 3 – A Googler’s Experience
January 29th, 2007 | Published in Google Code
I recently had the opportunity to attend Mashup Camp 3 at the Hotel@MIT in Cambridge, MA. The format of Mashup Camp was an exciting departure from traditional conferences. Mashup Camp is an 'unconference' which brings the developer community together for the sharing of ideas and discussion with no pre-determined agenda.
On each day, there was an event called 'speed geeking,' which is similar to speed dating except the goal is to present your mashups instead of your yourself. Google Earth and Google Maps were present at a large number of tables, but the GData APIs for Google Base and Google Calendar were used in a couple of the mashups. RoboCal allows you to call them and get a listing of your Google Calendar events read to you over the phone. There was also a speed geeking table by the folks at BlogMatrix which publishes to Google Calendar and Google Base from a blog-like interface. It was exciting how many great mashups were presented.
In a more traditional format, I presented a mashup I've been working on that combines the power of the Google Spreadsheets, Google Base and Google Calendar APIs into a single application. The mashup publishes a table of event information maintained in Google Spreadsheets to Google Base and Google Calendar. As Google Base results are indexed for search almost immediately, publishing a list of events into Base allows for people to easily find the events through Google search, the Base website or other sites which use the vast amount of structured data stored in Base. Publishing events out to a Google Calendar allows for a great view of the data to be included on the daily calendars of those interested in the events. I look forward to sharing more about this mashup (including source) in the near future.
I'll be at the next Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum near our offices in Mountain View, CA. Hope to see you there!
-Ryan Boyd, API Support Engineer
On each day, there was an event called 'speed geeking,' which is similar to speed dating except the goal is to present your mashups instead of your yourself. Google Earth and Google Maps were present at a large number of tables, but the GData APIs for Google Base and Google Calendar were used in a couple of the mashups. RoboCal allows you to call them and get a listing of your Google Calendar events read to you over the phone. There was also a speed geeking table by the folks at BlogMatrix which publishes to Google Calendar and Google Base from a blog-like interface. It was exciting how many great mashups were presented.
In a more traditional format, I presented a mashup I've been working on that combines the power of the Google Spreadsheets, Google Base and Google Calendar APIs into a single application. The mashup publishes a table of event information maintained in Google Spreadsheets to Google Base and Google Calendar. As Google Base results are indexed for search almost immediately, publishing a list of events into Base allows for people to easily find the events through Google search, the Base website or other sites which use the vast amount of structured data stored in Base. Publishing events out to a Google Calendar allows for a great view of the data to be included on the daily calendars of those interested in the events. I look forward to sharing more about this mashup (including source) in the near future.
I'll be at the next Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum near our offices in Mountain View, CA. Hope to see you there!
-Ryan Boyd, API Support Engineer