Last week the “Summer of Widgets” event in Germany took place. This was the last public event before the end of the competition.

Very early on a Saturday morning Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk) gave an introduction to W3C widgets. Chris Heilmann, Y! Evangelist (@codepo8) introduced everybody to one of the major APIs of Yahoo!. He explained in detail the YQL (Yahoo Query Language) and demoed the developer console showing some javascript examples.

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On August 11th I was kindly invited to present at an iPhone and Smartphone Developers and publishers meetup (http://bit.ly/3yuE1) in London.  It was a very well arranged event organised by Jason Dunne (thanks!) with a about 45-50 people attending.  I was told that this was the largest meetup so far which was nice. [...]

I sat down on iChat and had a great chat with Blaine Cook, the original developer of Twitter. We discuss the current state of mobile web development and where things are headed. Hope you enjoy it!