I am currently at the Ajax Experience conference in Boston, MA and yesterday I had my hour of fame giving my talk about “JavaScript and Web Services”. Here are the slides and the audio recording of my talk.

You can also check the audio recording of the talk at archive.org

In the talk I covered the change from the old web of documents and pages to a web of data, how we should liberate ourselves from browser restrictions when playing with technology and how YQL allows you to easily remix the web and use JavaScript on the command line with all kind of fancy options that you don’t have in browsers.

Resources mentioned are:

• The W3C widget spec
• PPK’s simple introduction to W3C widgets
• Yahoo’s Browser Plus
• YQL
• Using YUI widgets to display YQL data
• Displaying geolocated photos with pure JavaScript
• The YQL console
• How to turn a list of content on the web into a small page widget
• The YQL open table repository on github
• Google’s Ajax Translation API
• My competition winning translation W3C widget (needs Opera) and it’s source code on GitHub – this URL is wrong in the slides, DOH!
• Vodafone/betavine’s Widget development kit
• YQL’s open table specification
• Insert, Update and Delete in YQL
• JavaScript execute in YQL open tables
• Netflix’s open table showcasing oAuth in JavaScript