Mini Conference for Widgets Creators
The popularity of widgets has reached its next milestone. Om Malik announced Widgets Live!, the first ever conference specifically devoted to widgets and widgets creators. The conference will be held on November 6th in San Francisco. Unfortunately, we will not be able to attend what will surely be an interesting event. They are targeting an attendance of 200 people.
Here is the schedule for the conference.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:00 – 08:45 | Registration and breakfast |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Welcome to Widgets Live! |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Keynote presentation |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Arlo Rose: Konfabulator |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Building widgets using Flex |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Building widgets using HTML and JavaScript |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Success story: MeeboMe |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Success story: Photobucket |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Desktop widget engines panel |
| 13:45 – 14:30 | Homepage widgets panel |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Blog sidebar widgets |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Afternoon break |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Widget aggregators |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Widget hardware |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Lightning demos |
| 18:00 | Conclusion |
For more information, check out Niall Kennedy’s (Widgets Live! organizer) post and additional coverage of the event at Download Squad and Dare Obasanjo.
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