The Social Web – Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews – creator of BookBurro and lead developer of Flock (http://overstimulate.com)

The room is WAY to empty for this session which is too bad because people should be paying attention to this.

Greasemonkey and User scripts

• web is a playground

Book Burro

• User scripts grow into Extensions

Flock

• extensions grown into browsers

Browsers 101 – What are URLs
infotoday resolves to 216.83.98.6
document returned by tha server is not valid HTML 4.01 Transitional

Lots other people have information about this url

• Google
• Technorati
• Wayback Machine

Browsers use these resources to show render a representation of the url
HTML is a reccomendation

Greasemonkey
Your provide information about the url
Simple idea – update page after they load

Greasemonkey Allows

• Fix Sites

• Add relevancy (link to yaoo form google results)
• Hide ads
• Remove My Space Music/Background/Styles

Amazon Music Helper

• Free Legal Music

Userscripts.org – Greasemonkey Repository

• Thousands of Scripts
• Millions of page views

Book Burro

• Open Data Web Service
• Screen Scraping for ISBN
• 300 Horrible lines of Javascript
• Unintended uses – Acquisitions

Greasemonkey Hacks

Adding a library requires a little knowledge (updates sites.js)

Find in a local library using OpenWorldCat

Repository of Libraries their locations, etc

Combine with Talis Directory work!

Book Burro + Book Mooch

Book Burro is a side project!

• Ideas/Request? Tell Me

Flock (Flock Rocks)

• Photosharing Flickr
• Advanced Search
• RSS Reader
• Blog Editor

Based on Firefox

Photosharing with Flickr – Very Cool!

• Upload
• Consume photos
• See your friends
• Drag and drop photos to email, blog, etc

Next version Webshots, Photobucket, YouTube

Blogging

• Blog This (with a link back to the original)
• Open up Blog Tool

RSS Reader within Flock

• Group your Blogs

Fulltext Search Indexer for your History cache

Del.icio.us Integration as well

• tagging
• syncs Del.icio.us with bookmarks in browser