Tech Presentations

David Recordon made a good overview of problems and emerging technologies for open and distributed social networking from identity (OpenID, OAuth) to data interchange formats (XFN).

See it on TechPresentations.org: Open Platforms and the Social Graph

Video presentation by Douglas Crockford about history of networked computer interfaces and AJAX being the latest development but still far from being state of the art.

See it on TechPresentations.org: The State of Ajax

Another presentation by Douglas Crockford about JavaScript being a good language – despite the title of presentations, he looks at both good and bad parts of the language and describes how to go about using it.

See on TechPresentations.org: JavaScript: The Good Parts

A bit too cheesy marketing speech, but it introduces new technology and apparently MySpace and Google are behind it and all the huge crowd of other social networks like Ning, LinkedIn and SalesForce as well as application developers like Flixster, Slide and iLike.

See it on TechPresentations.org: Introducing OpenSocial.

A couple of good presentations from AJAX Experience conference – JavaScript Library Overview by John Resig, creator of jQuery for those who wants to pick a good JS framework and Learning to Love Forms by Aaron Gustafson for those who struggle with formatting forms using CSS (I never could do that properly).