My OSCON2008 presentation on voice mashups (and identi.ca microblogging) now available…
August 1st, 2008 by Dan YorkUPDATE: In answer to several questions I’ve received, yes, I did record this presentation and will make that available soon. Once I do, I will also link it to the slide presentation so the slides can be viewed in sync with the audio.
As I mentioned previously (also here), I was at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) last week up in Portland, Oregon, giving a talk on “Mashing Up Voice and the Web Through Open Source and XML“. It was fun to be back at OSCON for the first time since 2000 when I had been out there as the head of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and was talking then about Linux certification. It was great to see so many people who I knew from back in those days who are still very active in Linux and open source activities.
It was also quite frankly great to be out there not speaking about VoIP security but rather talking about voice mashups and XML! Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy speaking about VoIP security and do it all the time (including next week at ClueCon) but as a speaker it’s sure nice to have some variety. It was also fun for me in this talk to dive down into the weeds and step through code line-by-line, something I haven’t done in quite some time in a presentation (but used to do all the time when teaching training classes).
Another fun aspect of the talk at OSCON was that Evan Prodromou, the founder and main developer of the open source identi.ca microblogging site was sitting there in the audience. Since most all of my demos involved adding voice to identi.ca, he was very interested in what I was showing and we had several great conversations later.
Anyway, my slides are now available through SlideShare, and I’d definitely welcome any comments or feedback on the slide set (either here or over on SlideShare) as I’ll be using some aspects of these slides in other talks:
I’ve received a good number of positive comments and evaluations about the talk and am glad that so many folks found it helpful. The one negative comment I’ve received was that a couple of people were really looking to see how they could add voice to their web interface and all my demos showed how to use a voice interface to interact with web sites. It’s a fair critique. I mention that you could do “click-to-call”, but I didn’t actually show this feature with a demo. I was originally planning to include a demo of putting a conference widget onto a web site, but in the end decided not to include it because I liked the other demos better and only had ~45 minutes for the whole presentation. Another time, though, I’ll probably include such a demo to provide both perspectives. (Meanwhile, I think that’s a great blog post to put up on our Voxeo Developers Corner blog in the next bit.)
Speaking of our Voxeo Developers Corner blog, I’ll also be taking each of my demos and stepping through them section by section in a series of posts over on that blog. Look for those to appear soon.
And, of course, if you’d like to try out any of the demos yourself using the code in my presentation, just head over to our Evolution developer portal and sign up for a free developer account and start creating applications.
P.S. Please do let me know if you do anything cool with linking voice into identi.ca (or Twitter) as it’s a subject I’m rather interested in. You can follow me there on identi.ca at identi.ca/danyork
Technorati Tags: SIP, slides, voice, voice applications, voice apps, voice mashups, voip, oscon, oscon2008, voxeo, mashups, voicexml, ccxml, identi.ca, microblogging, twitter, conferences, presentations, dan york, danyork
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- FYI – I’ll be out at OSCON next week in Portland talking about voice mashups…
- Our upcoming talks at SpeechTEK and OSCON 2008 – VoiceXML, mashups and security
- Audio recording of RJ’s eComm 2008 presentation “Creating Communication 2.0 Applications” now online
- On the way to O’Reilly’s OSCON in Portland, OR…
- Did you miss eComm 2008? You can now see the presentations…
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August 1st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Dan,
I came to your blog via technorati.. just saw that the slideshare embed is not loading.
This might happen if you have the visual editor turned on while making the post… turn it off, copy paste the code and repost… it should work..
Let me know if this did not solve the problem…
Amit Ranjan
August 1st, 2008 at 9:32 am
Amit,
Thanks for the comment. My original post was actually sent via the API as I use the offline editor MarsEdit for almost all my writing. Subsequently I did go in and try to update the post via the WPMU editor (where I am, as you suggest, NOT using the visual editor) but had the same result.
In looking at the page source for the article, it looks like the <object> element is being stripped out of the <div> that encloses the embed. This is probably WPMU “helping” me make sure that I don’t get malicious code in my posts… so I’m probably off to edit kses.php as I did earlier ( http://blogs.voxeo.com/behindtheblog/2008/06/11/enabling-skype-and-sip-urls-in-wordpress-mu-151/ )
Thanks for the suggestion, Dan
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