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Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2011 Sponsored Sessions

9:00am Tuesday, 03/29/2011

Reinventing Webmail

2014

Dharmesh Mehta (Microsoft Corporation)

Hotmail is back. Yeah – Hotmail, seriously… Come see how it’s now pushing the envelope, including delivering the next generation of email to your inbox. Read more.

10:05am Tuesday, 03/29/2011

Building Apps for BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry Smartphones using BlackBerry WebWorks

2016

Adam Stanley (Research In Motion)

Average rating:

(2.67, 3 ratings)

Join this session to explore the exciting development possibilities of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for PlayBook. Learn how to use CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript WebWorks APIS to transform your existing web assets into a BlackBerry Super App! Read more.

10:05am Tuesday, 03/29/2011

SEO WebsIte Clinic: Do your Websites Test Positive for SEO?

2014

Bryan Connally (Parallel Path), John Schoofs (Parallel Path), Janine Soika (Verio Inc.)

Average rating:

(3.42, 19 ratings)

You are the best of the best when it comes to building websites - but can you say that people can easily find your websites once you make them live? Are you sure that you have incorporated all the SEO tips, tricks, tools, and best practices into the actual infrastructure of your website? Do you want to make sure that you have, along with offering SEO optimized websites to your customers? Read more.

11:10am Tuesday, 03/29/2011

The 2011 Startup Scene Uncovered

2014

Alex Polvi (Cloudkick), Robert Scoble (Rackspace)

Average rating:

(3.20, 5 ratings)

Join Robert Scoble, one of the premiere experts on startups today, and Alex Polvi, a successful entrepreneur and founder of Cloudkick, for an engaging conversation about the 2011 startups to watch. In the past year, there has been an explosion in the number of startups, incubators and funding . Are we in a bubble or is developer talent and the cloud feeding innovation? Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 03/29/2011

Harnessing the Cloud to Create Social Mobile Apps That Scale

2014

Abe Pachikara (Microsoft), Jim Zimmerman (Thuzi.com)

Average rating:

(2.33, 6 ratings)

We will discuss 3 topics near and dear to many: mobile apps; social apps; and helping ensure wild success. Join us to learn how Thuzi has created social apps that can run on phone devices (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone,) iPad/tablets, and tap cloud computing to handle rapid growth. Read more.

2:40pm Tuesday, 03/29/2011

Deploy Your Web Services and Applications To the Cloud in Record Time using Windows Azure

2014

Danny Kim (FullArmor Corp.), Scott Blackburn (Thuzi), Paul Slaats (Thuzi)

Average rating:

(3.00, 1 rating)

As a developer you can use the tools you already know and concentrate on building cool applications and not maintaining infrastructure. Attend this session to get an inside look at a new tool from Full Armor, that will help dramatically simplify the deployment of complex or custom web services to the Windows Azure cloud without having to write any code. Read more.

9:00am Wednesday, 03/30/2011

The Future of TV: Changes to the Entertainment Landscape

2014

Thiru Arunachalam (Peel), Bala Krishnan (Peel)

Average rating:

(3.43, 7 ratings)

"TV is broken. Well, not strictly speaking, but the way we interact with our TVs is terribly outdated…" -- David Pierce, PC Magazine. The interfaces we have had to use to simply watch TV are not only outdated, they actually interfere with the way we access our content. Read more.

10:05am Wednesday, 03/30/2011

Confessions of a Data Voyeur - From Curiosity to Better Decisions

2014

Jaidev Shergill (Bundle.com), Phil Kim (Bundle.com), Alexander Hasha (Bundle.com)

Average rating:

(3.67, 3 ratings)

What happens when you troll through massive amounts of consumer spending data? Can you create meaningful products that provide tangible benefit to users? These are the types of questions we ask ourselves every day at Bundle. Join us to view the results that curiosity can bring about. Read more.

10:05am Wednesday, 03/30/2011

Speed = Dollars: How to Massively Scale WordPress

2016

Mark Brown (Microsoft), Frederick Townes (Mashable.com)

Average rating:

(3.50, 4 ratings)

Performance matters for everyone on the web. In this session we’ll walk through the steps necessary to create a high performance website using WordPress. The technology and techniques apply everywhere so we’ll do this on a Windows Server as well. Join Frederick Townes, CTO from Mashable and Mark Brown from Microsoft as they walk through how to do it. Read more.

11:10am Wednesday, 03/30/2011

Combining Research Methods to Optimize User Experience Design

2014

Alfonso de la Nuez (UserZoom, Inc.), Ania Rodriguez (Keylime Interactive), Kim Oslob (UserZoom, Inc.), Kuldeep Kelkar (Paypal)

Average rating:

(2.00, 7 ratings)

How are leading brands measuring User Experience? Measuring user experience allows companies to manage and design optimal experiences for their customers. What tools are they leveraging to measure and manage their customer's experiences? We will discuss how leading companies, such as PayPal, are leveraging these tools and methodologies to measure and optimize their users' experience. Read more.

11:10am Wednesday, 03/30/2011

Developing a Windows Phone Application in 50 minutes

2016

Joel Franusic (Microsoft), Reza Alizadeh (Microsoft)

Average rating:

(3.00, 1 rating)

Reza and Joel will be giving a live demonstration on how to use Expression Blend and Visual Studio to develop a non-trivial Windows Phone application. Read more.