Steve’s Little world

Little birdies have been telling me that ArcWeb Services is no more - folded into other services and the staff dispersed. There is no more purchase options on their page - only renew. Well, Nature Valley and all you other Arcweb Service customers, I could always recommend another service that is fast, stable, and scalable. You can start for free and then move on to exactly the same API when you are ready to make some bling. Same API whether we host it or if you bring it behind the firewall; novel concept - ain’t it.  If you are interested go ahead and contact me or sales@decarta.com

Well here we go at mashup camp. It is nice to catch up people from last year, such as Ted from Bungee Labs. I really like the way David runs these events, he is funny and is flexible about how things go and they always seems to be fun. I am not sure if I want to try lead a session today or tomorrow but it should be fun to hear the discussion.

Some ideas:

• What you want in a mashup API provider (other than free)
• Moving beyond pushpins with location stuff
• The dark side of mashup - authentication and relying on services not your own

I don’t think I am going to live blog this one - more of just a thoughts either during the day or sometime on friday. I am also thinking about entering the contest now that I grok our API. This could be a fun way to make a demo.

Wireless is grinding to a crawl - we’ll see how it holds up…

If you want to meet up with me here is some of the things I will be going to in the near future:

1. The web 2.0 mapping and social network meetup in Menlo Park - This should be fun with Mapfacture, remapper, and mashed life giving presentations

2. Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum -  had a great time last year and lookin forward to going again. Love the lightning round when you get to see all the cool apps people are making but it is also nice to hear the big boys talk about where they will push the enterprise.

3.  CTIA in Vegas - I am going to Mobile Jam beforehand. I really don’t like Vegas but it will be fun to be floor for this extravaganza. I will be working the booth so stop by.

4. Web 2.0 Expo - I will be there in the Tele Atlas booth looks to be a great floor as well. Come on over for a chat. I will be showing some of the demos I put together.

Farther out I am planning on attending Where and  for sure going to be at WhereCamp, perhaps Location Intelligence and Extend08.

Have I mentioned that I love living in the Valley…

1. Google releases a Contacts API - hooray to having a way to get all my contacts in and out of google apps

2. Firefox 3 really is faster and pretty nice looking as well.

3. Busy playing with PostGIS, Java, and some JavaScript - demo should be here relatively shortly for new stuff coming in our 4.3.1 JS API.

4. I am predicting that MS is gonna pull out of the deal and that this was all a ploy to decimate Yahoo!

5. I really hope the rumors about Apple taking the lock down route to being the gatekeeper to iPhone apps is false but somehow I don’t think it is. How come Apple keeps getting these free passes - meet the new boss, same as the old boss

6. I miss Sean’s posts about birds

7. My birthday is next Sunday - so you better get the Wii and various games in the mail soon.

Just got my sign in to Fire Eagle [previous discussion]- they also gave me 4 signups to share. First emails to scitronpousty gmail get them.