As trailblazers in the world of ethical hacking, hackdays and providing free APIs and data for mashups It is pretty amazing to see exactly the same ideas being taken on by sources you wouldn't have expected. Show us a better way is a web site and competition by the UK government that asks ethical hackers to come up with ideas to use a wide range of public data for the good of the public. Straight f...

The last two days an old and historic school in London, England hosted 2gether08, a "festival of ideas, popular technologies and progress". Predictably during Wimbledon season, the weather was a glorious English summer as the photo of Steve Moore's final "thank you" talk shows: The event had an immense amount of illustruous sponsors, with Channel4 being the leader and also covering the whole event...

Editor's note: This post was originally published on hueniverse: thoughts on technology & open standards. The first OAuth Summit hosted by Yahoo! last week was a huge success. Fifty (!) OAuth community members attended, representing 20 companies, large and small, as well as a couple dedicated individuals. The list of companies represented is extremely gratifying to see considering that OAuth remain...

O'Reilly's Velocity Con, of course. Kai Hansen, Tony Ralph, Eric Goldsmith, and Artur Bergman during, This is Your Page with Ads, a panel moderated by Steve Souders. It turns out I'm not the only person who thinks micro-optimization of CSS files is cool.? I learned this lesson a year ago when I joined the Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo! and had it reinforced by the quality of both the presen...

This Wednesday, Yahoo!'s London-based SearchMonkeys hosted a evening to show the developer community just how ridiculously easy it is to build enhancements to their Yahoo! Search results using Search Monkey. Even though we were up against one of Radiohead's concerts, and a Girl Geek Dinner, some fifty people came along to monkey around with us in the loft space of a lovely rambling building just of...