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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T110000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T090000
DTSTAMP:20060312T195209
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/191
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-09:00--191
SUMMARY:XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0, and XSLT 2.0 Explained
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Priscilla Walmsley (Datypic). This tutorial wil
 l 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 provid
 e attendees with a solid understanding of the syntax of XQuery expressio
 ns. The discussion of
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T090000
DTSTAMP:20060515T162237
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/196
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-09:00--196
SUMMARY:The Yahoo! User Interface Library
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Simon Willison (Yahoo!). The Yahoo! User Interf
 ace 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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T110000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T090000
DTSTAMP:20060501T194619
LOCATION:Volmer 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/188
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-09:00--188
SUMMARY:Get Started with Ruby on Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matt Biddulph (hackdiary), Edd Dumbill (Useful 
 Information Company). Ruby on Rails is a framework for rapidly and elega
 ntly developing database-backed web applications. This tutorial provides
  an overview of all Rails features, from AJAX to Apache, demonstrating h
 ow development time can be significantly reduced.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T110000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T090000
DTSTAMP:20060312T193637
LOCATION:Volmer 3
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/190
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-09:00--190
SUMMARY:Microformats from the Ground Up
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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 wh
 ile developing microformats.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T094500
DTSTAMP:20060515T174739
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/197
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-09:45--197
SUMMARY:Dojo and the future of the open web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andy Smith (anarkystic.com). Ajax is one step a
 long 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.
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T110000
DTSTAMP:20060309T170052
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/169
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-11:00--169
SUMMARY:OpenLaszlo as an Ajax platform
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Max Carlson (OpenLaszlo.org). This paper discus
 ses the upcoming plans for OpenLaszlo and how they relate to the Ajax co
 mmunity at large.  It includes an overview of the language, a demo of th
 e current Ajax support, and talks about the future of OpenLaszlo as a pl
 atform.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T114500
DTSTAMP:20060309T170145
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/29
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-11:45--29
SUMMARY:Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeremy Keith (Clearleft). Ajax is hot topic. Be
 hind the hype lies a technology that can greatly enhance websites. Those
  enhancements can and should degrade gracefully. By applying the princip
 le of progressive enhancement, you can ensure that no visitor is left be
 hind.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T140000
DTSTAMP:20060515T174620
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/172
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-14:00--172
SUMMARY:Developing Enterprise Applications with Ajax and XUL
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sebastian Schürmann (Mayflower / Thinkphp). Th
 is talk describes the daily experience of developing an Ajax Framework a
 nd 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.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T160000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T140000
DTSTAMP:20060312T193641
LOCATION:Volmer 3
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/189
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-14:00--189
SUMMARY:Introduction to XHTML2 and XForms
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steven Pemberton (W3C/CWI). XHTML2 gives improv
 ed usability, accessibility, structuring, internationalization, device i
 ndependence, integration with the semantic web, and better forms process
 ing. The speaker is the chair of the W3C groups producing the technologi
 es.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T144500
DTSTAMP:20060515T174839
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/209
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-14:45--209
SUMMARY:Web 2.0 with Adobe Flex and Ajax
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Watson (Adobe). Description to follow.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T160000
DTSTAMP:20060309T170212
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/31
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-16:00--31
SUMMARY:Combining E4X and AJAX
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kurt Cagle (Metaphorical Web). ECMAScript for X
 ML 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 ho
 w the use of AJAX and E4X together will simplify programming web applica
 tions.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T164500
DTSTAMP:20060515T213053
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/136
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-16:45--136
SUMMARY:AjaX with a Capital X!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Menno van Slooten (Backbase). Ajax developers a
 re relying heavily on JavaScript to make web interfaces richer. But Java
 Script has drawbacks. XML technologies such as XPath and XSLT are a grea
 t alternative and can be used efficiently for managing Ajax-style intera
 ctivity.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T181500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060516T173000
DTSTAMP:20060501T211405
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/206
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-16-17:30--206
SUMMARY:Ajax Lightning Demos
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Simon Willison (Yahoo!). Rapid-fire demonstrati
 ons of Ajax projects and concepts, chaired by Simon Willison of Yahoo!
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T090000
DTSTAMP:20060413T004030
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/194
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-09:00--194
SUMMARY:How American are Startups?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Graham (Y Combinator). Startups are largel
 y an American phenomenon.  Why?  What is it about America that makes sta
 rtups work there?  Could Silicon Valley be replicated in another country
 ?
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T094500
DTSTAMP:20060409T212721
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/193
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-09:45--193
SUMMARY:Building a Participation Platform at Yahoo!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeffrey McManus (Yahoo!). The Web is moving fro
 m a static, one-to-many model to a participatory,

 
 user-centric model, based on user-generated content, social networks and
 

 
 two-way conversations.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T110000
DTSTAMP:20060215T010454
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/101
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:00--101
SUMMARY:Putting the BBC's Programme Catalogue on Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matt Biddulph (hackdiary). This session will ex
 plore the work that went into converting the BBC's programme catalogue d
 atabase from an internal green-screen application into a public Web 2.0 
 application using Ruby on Rails.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T110000
DTSTAMP:20060214T235656
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/119
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:00--119
SUMMARY:SQL, XQuery, and SPARQL: What's Wrong With This Picture?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Melton (Oracle Corporation). Yet Another Qu
 ery Language?

 
 Am RDF query language, SPARQL, is emerging. Is XQuery sufficient for que
 rying RDF in its XML incarnation? Is SQL adequate to query RDF in tuple 
 form? We explore these issues and position the 3 languages.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T110000
DTSTAMP:20060410T215038
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/200
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:00--200
SUMMARY:Improving the Browser Feed Experience for Users and Developers
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert Sayre (IconNicholson). This presentation
  will discuss improvements in browser handling of syndication feeds (Ato
 m/RSS), and cover strategies for better integration with helper applicat
 ions and online services.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T110000
DTSTAMP:20060215T002630
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/60
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:00--60
SUMMARY:OpenStreetMap: The First Year
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steve Coast (openstreetmap.org). OpenStreetMap 
 is creating a free geowiki of the world, primarily street maps at presen
 t. Why? Geodata generally isn't free or available.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTAMP:20060215T010551
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/104
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:45--104
SUMMARY:Putting IBM databases on Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Leon Katsnelson (IBM). IBM database team (build
 ers 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 project
 s we have under way and what this can do for Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0 e
 nthusiasts.
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTAMP:20060214T235712
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/13
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:45--13
SUMMARY:Using XSLT and XQuery for life-size applications
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Kay (Saxonica Limited). This session su
 rveys the strengths and weaknesses of the XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 langua
 ges when it comes to writing real-life, sizeable applications for perfor
 ming data transformations.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTAMP:20060410T215401
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/201
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:45--201
SUMMARY:Microsummaries in Firefox and on the Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Myk Melez (Mozilla Corporation). Microsummaries
  are regularly-updated compilations of the most important and timely inf
 ormation on web pages. This talk demonstrates how Firefox will incorpora
 te microsummaries into its UI, starting with bookmark labels
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T114500
DTSTAMP:20060324T203253
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/158
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-11:45--158
SUMMARY:Collaborative Atlas: Post geopolitical boundaries
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Di-Ann Eisnor (Platial Inc.). Platial is an ini
 tiative to create a collaborative atlas that bridges people, neighborhoo
 ds and nations and enables people to document experience through geograp
 hy. When geography can viewed through the eyes of many, geopolitical bou
 ndaries begin to melt.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T140000
DTSTAMP:20060422T151820
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/203
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:00--203
SUMMARY:Web 2.0 On Speed
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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. Thi
 s session shows what's possible right now, and examines the future of HT
 TP caching.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T140000
DTSTAMP:20060215T002356
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/114
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:00--114
SUMMARY:Future-proofing your XML data
DESCRIPTION:Presented by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (World Wide Web Consorti
 um (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?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T140000
DTSTAMP:20060410T215222
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/199
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:00--199
SUMMARY:XBL2: Delivering on the promise of XML Binding Language
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jonas Sicking (Mozilla Corporation). As CSS all
 ows stylistic attributes to be added to elements, so XBL allows behavior
  to be added. This talk describes the capabilities of XBL and explains w
 hat is new in XBL2.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T140000
DTSTAMP:20060516T222804
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/42
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:00--42
SUMMARY:StreamOnTheFly network
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Roland Alton-Scheidl (PUBLIC VOICE Lab & Vorarl
 berg University of Applied Sciences). StreamOnTheFly is an open source a
 nd open content media network, fed by community radio stations, which al
 lows easy exchange of content for broadcasting and podCasting.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTAMP:20060215T013656
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/171
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:45--171
SUMMARY:Publish-subscribe using Jabber
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ralph Meijer (Jabber Software Foundation). Jabb
 er, based on the IETF approved Extensible Messaging and Presence Protoco
 l

 
 (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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTAMP:20060215T002436
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/155
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:45--155
SUMMARY:Markup for Flat-XML Processing
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Daniel Parker (Economic Technology, Inc.). As X
 ML technologies make gains in mainstream data processing, the need grows
  for markup languages that convert legacy data to XML.  This presentatio
 n identifies use cases for flat-XML conversion, and describes a markup v
 ocabulary that addresses them.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTAMP:20060410T215236
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/202
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:45--202
SUMMARY:Converging Rich-Client and Web Application Development with Mozi
 lla XULRunner
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Benjamin Smedberg (Mozilla Corporation). This p
 resentation will demonstrate the convergence of rich-client and web appl
 ication development and discuss application deployment using Mozilla XUL
 Runner.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T144500
DTSTAMP:20060516T222814
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/78
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-14:45--78
SUMMARY:Treating Digital Broadcast As Just Another API, and other such r
 uminations
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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 API
 s. It will include demos of some internal BBC prototypes.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T160000
DTSTAMP:20060215T010701
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/3
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:00--3
SUMMARY:XML, REST, and SOAP at Yahoo
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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! Se
 arch Marketing.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T160000
DTSTAMP:20060503T224402
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/207
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:00--207
SUMMARY:Google Data API
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Frank Mantek (Google). Google recently released
  the Google Data API, an Atom based protocol to retrieve, query and upda
 te data on Google properties. The talk discusses the protocol and librar
 ies, together with sample code, as well as the planned future of the API
 .
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T160000
DTSTAMP:20060305T205913
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/57
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:00--57
SUMMARY:Canvas, SVG, and More: Rich Graphics Capabilities For Web Applic
 ations
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Vladimir Vukićević (Mozilla Corporation). Thi
 s presentation will examine some of the strengths and weaknesses of the 
 HTML 'canvas' and SVG for adding rich graphical capabilities to web appl
 ications.  Future browser graphics capabilities, both 2D and 3D will als
 o be discuss.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T160000
DTSTAMP:20060215T002856
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/97
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:00--97
SUMMARY:Chopping Up Radio - collaboratively annotating radio programmes
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTAMP:20060513T104554
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/208
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:45--208
SUMMARY:SOA + RIA = SOC (Services oriented client)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Watson (Adobe). Explaining how Rich Interne
 t Applications enable developers and architects to build enterprise Web 
 2.0 applications by leveraging existing J2EE backend infrastructures and
  development metaphors.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTAMP:20060422T165317
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/118
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:45--118
SUMMARY:Efficient implementation of content models with numerical occurr
 ence constraints
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh). W3C X
 ML 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 s
 uch ranges are nested.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTAMP:20060215T004602
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/146
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:45--146
SUMMARY:Layout algorithm improvements for Web user interfaces
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Baron (Mozilla Corporation). A discussion
  of problems with existing standards and potential improvements in two a
 reas:  layout systems for user interfaces (rather than documents) and me
 chanisms for reordering content to allow the author to use good markup a
 nd appropriate layout.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060517T164500
DTSTAMP:20060426T225356
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/93
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-17-16:45--93
SUMMARY:The power of declarative thinking
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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 W
 eb in the first place.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T090000
DTSTAMP:20060501T164715
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/69
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:00--69
SUMMARY:Implementing DITA: Considerations beyond Specialization
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Prescod (Justsystems Inc.). Interested in 
 DITA, the XML-based standard for written communication? This presentatio
 n, based on an actual case study, looks at the planning and development 
 tasks that are required to implement a DITA authoring solution.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T090000
DTSTAMP:20060215T015649
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/109
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:00--109
SUMMARY:The Road to Efficient XML
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robin Berjon (Expway). Efficient XML has been t
 he 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 efficie
 nt XML.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T090000
DTSTAMP:20060305T203806
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/157
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:00--157
SUMMARY:Revolutionizing the browser user experience
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ian McKellar (Flock Inc). This session will pre
 sent the user interface of the Flock web browser and describe how the pr
 oject is attempting to update the browser experience to enable sharing, 
 collaboration and publishing.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T090000
DTSTAMP:20060215T003154
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/176
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:00--176
SUMMARY:Ignorance is not a defence
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Suw Charman (Open Rights Group). Our digital se
 lves are being increasingly surveilled, tracked and controlled by govern
 ment and business alike, while our rights to privacy and free speech are
  eroded. What are the most worrying threats, and how you can protect you
 r digital rights?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTAMP:20060215T011533
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/120
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:45--120
SUMMARY:Case Study of an Implementation of XML Authoring Within the Open
  University
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sean Scannell (eXiMaL Limited). Case Study of a
 n implementation of XML authoring in the Open University. Whilst Case St
 udies sometimes identify non-transferable experience, this contains prac
 tical information beneficial in guiding any organisation in the introduc
 tion of XML authoring.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTAMP:20060426T225114
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/27
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:45--27
SUMMARY:XML Offload and Acceleration with Cell Broadband Engine
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stefan Letz (IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH),
  Roland Seiffert (IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH). This presentation d
 escribes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a high-performanc
 e XML parser on the Cell Broadband Engine processor architecture as a pa
 rt of a system architecture for XML offload and acceleration.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTAMP:20060305T203911
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/84
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:45--84
SUMMARY:Etna, a wysiwyg XML RELAXNG- and Gecko-based editor
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Daniel GLAZMAN (Disruptive Innovations). Presen
 tation of the new wysiwyg XML editor based on Gecko, and its underlying 
 implementation of RELAX NG.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T094500
DTSTAMP:20060215T003201
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/125
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-09:45--125
SUMMARY:An open (data) can of worms
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Hammond (BBC). Open data is not a panacea,
  and presents as many questions as answers. Technology can only solve so
 me of these issues, this presentation outlines some of the other, more f
 undamental, problems.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T110000
DTSTAMP:20060215T020506
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/115
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:00--115
SUMMARY:The Viper Solution: A Data Persistence Model using XML and PHP
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Salvador Ledezma (IBM). This session will focus
  on a data access and persistence XML model and API that allows programm
 ers to develop simple web applications that require a database.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T110000
DTSTAMP:20060215T015849
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/61
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:00--61
SUMMARY:SPARQLing Services
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Leigh Dodds (Ingenta). This paper will review t
 he SPARQL specifications and its potential benefits to Web 2.0 applicati
 ons. Focusing on the SPARQL protocol for RDF, the paper will provide imp
 lementation guidance for developers interested in adding SPARQL support 
 to their APIs.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T110000
DTSTAMP:20060305T203922
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/137
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:00--137
SUMMARY:Building Rich, Encapsulated Widgets Using XBL, XForms and SVG
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark Birbeck (x-port.net Ltd.). From calendar c
 ontrols to sliders to maps, the end-user experience is vastly improved i
 f different types of data have different user interfaces. This session s
 hows how XBL, SVG and XForms can be used to produce powerful widgets.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T110000
DTSTAMP:20060312T192555
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/178
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:00--178
SUMMARY:Native to a Web of Data: Designing a part of the Aggregate Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tom Coates (Yahoo!). What are the architectural
  elements of the emerging web of data; how do you build services to thri
 ve in this environment? What needs to change and what needs to return to
  fundamental principles? How do we bring it all together to make somethi
 ng awesome?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTAMP:20060215T015942
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/19
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:45--19
SUMMARY:Ditching the database: XML and the PHP webapp
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTAMP:20060215T015855
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/156
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:45--156
SUMMARY:Adding SPARQL Support to MySQL
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C/ERCIM). SPARSQL gives e
 xisting MySQL clients (PHP, DBI, ODBC, JDBC) RDF query access to MySQL d
 atabases. Learn how SPARQL support in MySQL provides the efficiency of r
 elational databases with the versatility of RDF query.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTAMP:20060305T203932
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/25
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:45--25
SUMMARY:Dynamic SVG generation under Firefox 1.5 using JavaScript, XML a
 nd XSLT
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Thomas Meinike (Merseburg University of Applied
  Sciences / Department Computer Science and Communication Systems). Mozi
 lla Firefox 1.5 came out including a native SVG implementation. In the c
 ontext of other technologies like JavaScript, XML and XSLT it’s possib
 le to create graphical content on the fly. Basic facts and practical kno
 w-how will be presented.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T114500
DTSTAMP:20060215T003951
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/132
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-11:45--132
SUMMARY:Developing for the Personal InfoCloud
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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 Info
 Cloud to frame  digital information convergence for the person so to des
 ign our information for use and reuse.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T140000
DTSTAMP:20060315T194426
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/32
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:00--32
SUMMARY:Content modelling at the BBC using RDF and OWL
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brendan Quinn (BBC). To meet the BBC's requirem
 ents for content model management, we built an OWL ontology in Protégé
 . Users of the tool can export content models to our CMS from the underl
 ying RDF. Issues include applying the open-world model to closed-world p
 roblems.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T140000
DTSTAMP:20060215T000310
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/18
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:00--18
SUMMARY:Building and Managing a Massive Triple Store: An Experience Repo
 rt
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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 c
 ontains bibliographic metadata spanning 17 million articles; it has 200 
 million triples from a range of vocabularies.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T140000
DTSTAMP:20060215T004240
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/148
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:00--148
SUMMARY:The Intelligent Design of Microformats
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ryan King (Technorati, Inc.). An overview of Mi
 croformats and how they can be enable able publishing data for the Seman
 tic Web.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T140000
DTSTAMP:20060422T152726
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/204
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:00--204
SUMMARY:Going Horizontal: Comparing Open Data Vocabularies Across Domain
 s
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Marc de Graauw (Marc de Graauw IT). XML-based o
 pen 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?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTAMP:20060215T015147
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/49
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:45--49
SUMMARY:UML modeling for XML, a practical example
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Benoît Marchal (Pineapplesoft). The session wi
 ll discuss the use of UML modeling for XML applications, including the p
 ros and cons, practical steps, implementation strategy and project sampl
 es.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTAMP:20060215T000318
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/126
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:45--126
SUMMARY:A high performance RDFS store using a Generic Object Model
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bradley Bebee (SAIC), Bijan Parsia (Clark & Par
 sia, LLC), Bryan Thompson (SAIC), Michael Personick (SAIC), Martyn Cutch
 er (Cut the Crap Software). High performance databases are required to s
 upport 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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTAMP:20060215T004249
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/58
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:45--58
SUMMARY:RDF/A: The Easy Way to Publish Your Metadata
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark Birbeck (x-port.net Ltd.). RDF/A is a new,
  and simpler, way of adding metadata to documents, in such a way that th
 e document contains its own metadata--making it easy to turn a home page
  into a FoaF file or RSS feed.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T144500
DTSTAMP:20060215T003730
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/108
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-14:45--108
SUMMARY:ODF: Our Document Future
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Donna Benjamin (Open Source Industry Australia)
 . The National Archive of Australia was one of the first govt agencies i
 n the world to adopt XML formats for the digital preservation of documen
 ts. This presentation examines Australia's part in the Open Source, Open
  Data, OpenDocument ecosphere.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T160000
DTSTAMP:20060215T015018
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/102
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:00--102
SUMMARY:Search engines for Semantic Web knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore Co
 unty). Software agents will need specialized search engines to find rele
 vant

 
 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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T160000
DTSTAMP:20060422T164816
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/55
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:00--55
SUMMARY:Internationalization and Localization of XML: Introducing "ITS"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Felix Sasaki (W3C), Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford Uni
 versity), Christian Lieske (SAP). Description of a new markup vocabulary
  called "Internationalization Tag Set" (ITS), which is used for Internat
 ionalization and Localization of XML documents and schemas.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T160000
DTSTAMP:20060422T170529
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/79
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:00--79
SUMMARY:Standardising Web Applications: Rich Web Clients at W3C
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dean Jackson (W3C). The W3C Rich Web Client Act
 ivity will describe its objectives and

 
 current status, and request community feedback.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T160000
DTSTAMP:20060215T003744
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/75
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:00--75
SUMMARY:Social Bookmarking For Scientists - or The Best Of Both Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ben Lund (Nature Publishing Group). This presen
 tation describes Connotea, an experimental service that marries social b
 ookmarking and tagging with existing academic information tools.  It als
 o highlights a challenge - how best to link web resources to data about 
 those resources.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTAMP:20060513T102052
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/147
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:45--147
SUMMARY:Building the Semantic Web at NASA: People, Organizations, Projec
 ts, and Skills
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bijan Parsia (Clark & Parsia, LLC), Kendall Cla
 rk (XML.com), Andy Schain (NASA). 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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTAMP:20060215T014242
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/17
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:45--17
SUMMARY:Managing Multilingual Legislation With XML
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Werner Donné (Independent consultant). Present
 ation of a system for publishing the European Combined Nomenclature legi
 slation in twenty languages.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTAMP:20060215T014543
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/133
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:45--133
SUMMARY:XForms: an alternative to Ajax?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Erik Bruchez (Orbeon, Inc.). In this presentati
 on, we show how today's hybrid, Ajax-based XForms implementations fit in
 to the "Web 2.0" landscape by delivering exciting features beyond the in
 itial promises of XForms and providing an alternative to low-level Ajax 
 development.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060518T164500
DTSTAMP:20060215T013521
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/38
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-18-16:45--38
SUMMARY:Making Connections: Exploring new forms of semantic browsing
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Liz Turner (None). A look at ways of enriching 
 user experience of complex data sets, through taxonomy, visualization, i
 magery and interaction
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T090000
DTSTAMP:20060422T170444
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/59
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:00--59
SUMMARY:The Ning Playground: A Springboard for new Social Software
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Yoz Grahame (Ning, Inc.). The Ning Playground p
 rovides excellent, free opportunities for those looking to design, devel
 op or host new social applications and web services. This session covers
  Ning's many features for developers of new and existing apps.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T090000
DTSTAMP:20060215T000445
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/89
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:00--89
SUMMARY:Chameleon XML models
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Uche Ogbuji (Fourthought, Inc.). Variant XML fo
 rmats within a domain are often similar core models with superficial dif
 ferences in representation.  Advanced XML design practices allow a commo
 n model to govern multiple syntactic forms.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T090000
DTSTAMP:20060215T004856
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/83
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:00--83
SUMMARY:Bringing Web 2.0 to Mobile Devices
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Smith (Opera Software). Mobile web brow
 ers have in the past lacked the support needed for enabling use of so-ca
 lled "rich Internet applications" on mobile handsets. But the "next gene
 ratation" of mobile web browsers has changed that, dramatically.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T090000
DTSTAMP:20060427T070704
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/20
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:00--20
SUMMARY:Embedded RDF
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ian Davis (Talis Information Ltd.). Embedded RD
 F is a pattern for enriching content by interweaving existing XHTML mark
 up with RDF. The method used requires no new markup so the XHTML can sti
 ll be validated, is fully CSS compliant and will not affect browser beha
 viour.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTAMP:20060215T011135
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/140
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:45--140
SUMMARY:Django: Web development on journalism deadlines
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Simon Willison (Yahoo!). Django is a full-stack
  Python web framework initially created to handle the challenges posed b
 y  a fast-moving newsroom environment. It has gained a strong community 
 following in the ten months since its release as an open-source project.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTAMP:20060215T000454
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/15
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:45--15
SUMMARY:Treebind: an API to bind them all
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Eric van der Vlist (DYOMEDEA). Treebind is a ge
 neric Java Open Source API which binds a number of different hierarchica
 l and graphs data model (XML, RDF, LDAP and Java objects are currently s
 upported). This presentation is also a unique opportunity to compare the
 se data models.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTAMP:20060215T004921
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/175
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:45--175
SUMMARY:Mobile Web Applications
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Håkon Lie (Opera Software). The web is shiftin
 g from being document-centric to being application-centric. This present
 ation will describe the opportunities and challenges in running Web appl
 ications on mobile devices.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T094500
DTSTAMP:20060502T195502
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/56
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-09:45--56
SUMMARY:GeoRSS: Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mikel Maron (OpenStreetMap). With the huge pote
 ntial of GeoRSS to leverage the "RSS Ecosystem" for the Geospatial Web, 
 GeoRSS.org was created with the goals of promoting interoperability, upw
 ards compatibility with GML, and extending W3C geo for line and polygon 
 geometries.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T110000
DTSTAMP:20060215T011951
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/1
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:00--1
SUMMARY:Slidy - an web based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dave Raggett (W3C). Web-based editor and slide 
 presentation tool
 
 using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T110000
DTSTAMP:20060215T000517
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/44
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:00--44
SUMMARY:XSieve: extending XSLT with the roots of XSLT
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Oleg Parashchenko (Saint-Petersburg State Unive
 rsity). XSLT has roots in DSSSL. DSSSL has roots in the Lisp dialect Sch
 eme. Now, XSieve interweaves both XSLT and Scheme, forming a more powerf
 ul XML processing language. XSieve is one of the successful Google "Summ
 er of Code" 2005 projects.
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T110000
DTSTAMP:20060215T005015
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/91
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:00--91
SUMMARY:Mini Map  - A web page visualization method for mobile phones
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andrei Popescu (Nokia Research Center, Nokia Co
 rporation), Roland Geisler (Nokia), Elina Vartiainen (Nokia Research Cen
 ter, Nokia Corporation). Mini Map is a new Web page visualization method
  for Web browsers running on mobile phones. It preserves the original lo
 ok and feel of the page, while providing means for efficiently navigatin
 g to the interesting content.
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T110000
DTSTAMP:20060412T233651
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/135
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:00--135
SUMMARY:Semantics Through the Tag
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Beckett (Yahoo! Inc). This paper will dis
 cuss 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.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTAMP:20060411T220950
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/149
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:45--149
SUMMARY:Amazon Web Services: Fueling Innovation and Entrepeneurship
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeff Barr (Amazon). Amazon Web Services Evangel
 ist Jeff Barr reviews Amazon’s web services, including Amazon S3 (Simp
 le Storage Service), Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon E-Commerce Service, 
 Alexa Web Information Service, and Alexa Web Search Platform.
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTAMP:20060426T214847
LOCATION:St. John 1
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/205
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:45--205
SUMMARY:xfy: XML RAD with IBM DB2 Viper
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Yukihiko Negoro (Justsystems Inc.). In this pre
 sentation, we will show how xfy and IBM DB2 Viper can implement UltraRAD
  for XML applications, and change and accelerate utilization of informat
 ion in companies.
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTAMP:20060502T195854
LOCATION:Foyer Room
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/195
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:45--195
SUMMARY:Sharing Places – find, remix and share located media with the 
 world
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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.
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T114500
DTSTAMP:20060215T020827
LOCATION:St. John 2
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/134
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-11:45--134
SUMMARY:The End of the Open Internet?: Network Service and Security in W
 eb 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Leventhal (Tarari, Inc.). Does applicat
 ion-aware networking threaten the "open internet" - where every message 
 is handled equally? Ironically, the very power unleased by exchanging XM
 L on the internet threatens, in the eyes of some, Web 2.0 goals of openn
 ess and innovation.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T140000
DTSTAMP:20060412T234302
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/192
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-14:00--192
SUMMARY:Building Software With Human Intelligence: What Amazon Mechanica
 l Turk Can Do For You and Your Customers
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeff Barr (Amazon). What if computers could mak
 e use of people? Jeff Barr will explain how the Amazon Mechanical Turk A
 PI does this, allowing computers to integrate Artificial Artificial Inte
 lligence directly into their processing by making requests of humans.
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20060519T144500
DTSTAMP:20060513T110212
LOCATION:Grand Ballroom
URL:http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/detail/198
UID:http://xtech.org/--s2006-05-19-14:45--198
SUMMARY:JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by 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. Work on this 
 compiler and the new features of JS2 will be presented by the inventor o
 f JavaScript.
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