d.Construct 2006
Simon and I will be talking at d.Construct 2006 on the 8th of September in Brighton.
We'll be talking about the work Yahoo is doing to open up its data and services. To quote the schedule:
Over the last year the Yahoo! Developer Network has opened up dozens of sites and services to external software developers, with APIs for Yahoo! Search, Flickr, del.icio.us, Yahoo! Maps and many others. More recently Yahoo! has started adopting microformats on Yahoo! Local and upcoming.org.
Simon and Paul will be peeking behind the Yahoo! firewall, showing how these services are created and discussing some of the lessons learned in releasing them to the public. They will also show how a company can make use of web services internally to solve real-world technical problems, encourage innovation and make work more enjoyable.
There's also going to be sessions with Jeff Barr, Aral Balkan, Derek Featherstone, Thomas Vander Wal, Jeremy Keith and Jeff Veen.
Tickets go on sale at 10am on the 18th July (in other words, this Tuesday). Last year it sold out in about 30 minutes - if you want to go (and you do) then book early.