I am currently in Madrid, Spain for the La Red Innova conference. My talk was a hybrid of explaining the social graph and Yahoo Firehose and showing off some of the free technologies Yahoo has for publishers and bloggers.

I’ve recorded the audio of the talk and will publish it once I checked the quality (the stage was very noisy so I am not sure if it worked out). I’ll also upload the official Yahoo slide deck once the connection here is a bit more stable.

Here are my slides and links:

The slide deck

Yahoo – opening the web for you

Notes and links of the conference

Blogs I write for:

• http://wait-till-i.com
• http://ajaxian.com
• http://smashingmagazine.com
• http://thinkvitamin.com
• Microsoft Script Junkie

Links:

• Yahoo Developer Network
• YQL console
• YQL demos (open in the console): – Getting photos from flickr – Finding Madrid on this planet – Finding photos taken in Madrid – Finding New York Times articles about football – Getting headlines from elpais.com – Extracting keywords from elpais.com headlines – Elpais.com headlines in English – Searching Bing, Yahoo and Google in one statement
• GooHooBi
• Screencast how to build GooHooBi
• Yahoo Pattern Library
• YUI grids builder
• Yahoo User Interface Library
• Yahoo Performance Tips
• YSlow
• Yahoo Geo Platform
• GeoMaker
• Around You
• GeoPlanet Explorer
• Adding a map to any HTML content

Monday I was in Madrid for a developer evening at ETSI Telecomunicacion. The hosting university had a very cool auditorium, but what really amazed me was that it is in part a museum for telecommunication which means the whole building was full of old comms hardware – something I really dig.

Anyways, my talk for the developer evening was a deep-dive into Yahoo Placemaker, YQL and YUI. Here are the slides:

You can also listen to the audio recording of the talk hosted on archive.org.

If you want to see the video of the talk (which uses Isabel, the university’s conferencing system) you can check the recording on the university web site.