Sven Dens

Just saw Aral Balkan’s session on “Rediscovering Fun”, which, as always, TOTALLY ROCKED!!

He mostly talked about his new remoting technology (gateway) SWX, and showed just how cool it is to really USE the web. Things like Twitter, Flickr, Upcoming, etc… all have public API’s which basically allow you to build your own stuff, just the way you like it, while using their technology.

A totally cool demo was when he used his Nokia N92 phone to read out a barcode, generated by web software and containing actual Twitter input. The phone read in the barcode, Flash Lite on the phone using SWX interpreted the input and displayed the output on screen. Now how cool is that?!

Lesson learned was: don’t be afraid to experiment! Use the web, discover all the fun things you can do with it, and don’t get put off if you need to try 1000 times before you build something really cool that lasts. JUST DO IT!

More on this day as it continues…