Sessions at OSCON 2011 about Social Web

Tuesday 26th July 2011

• Mining and Visualizing Data from the Social Web

  by Matthew Russell

  This lab teaches you how to harvest, store, analyze, and visualize data from the most popular social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) with Python, pragmatic storage technologies like Redis and CouchDB, and popular visualization tools like Graphviz and JavaScript toolkits.

  • Python
  • Social Web
  • Twitter
  • Visualization

  At 9:00am to 12:30pm, Tuesday 26th July

  In E143/144, Oregon Convention Center

Wednesday 27th July 2011

• Fighting for the Future of the Social Web: Selling Out and Opening Up

  by Joseph Smarr

  OpenID, OAuth, and other efforts to open up the social web are a dizzying mix of successes and setbacks. Are they being widely adopted, or eclipsed by proprietary alternatives? Are they good enough for mainstream users, or still too geeky? And have their fiercest proponents “sold out” by taking jobs at Google and Facebook, or are they continuing the fight from within? Come hear the inside story.

  • OAuth
  • OpenID
  • Social Web

  At 2:30pm to 3:10pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In F150, Oregon Convention Center