Speaking at University of Pittsburgh, May 14th.
I’ll be speaking at the University Of Pittsburgh’s School of Pharmacy (in 810B) for a “Lunch and Learn” on May 14th. The talk will be on SiloSync (which will need to be updated quite a bit before then) and will probably go into a more general discussion of Social Networking and Freeing the Social Graph during Q&A.
From what I understand, the Lunch and Learn series is mostly attended by faculty and staff, but we’ll see. The last talk was by Jesse Schell of Schell Games, so I guess I’m in good company!
Thanks for inviting me, Pitt!
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on May 17th, 2008 at 9:32 am
[...] Pitt talk was fun Posted in Programming, Software Industry, Education, Motive Force by Sean on the May 17th, 2008 The talk I gave this week on SiloSync at Pitt was a fun venue. Their Lunch-and-Learn series is a really cool idea and sounds like it’s getting even more interesting. Next month’s talk is going to be done by a VP from Sun Microsystems. Prior to presenting, I jumped back into the SiloSync code and wrote the beginnings of the importer for Facebook. As a side-note: one of the things that’s fascinating about this project is that I get to see all of the half-implemented security that different sites use. LiveJournal had a secure way of sending passwords, but shockingly stores passwords as plain-text (a big security faux-pas). Similarly, I saw some left-over fields in Facebook’s login form, but it appears that they just punted and used https (a secure web connection using SSL encryption) to just encrypt the whole login. [...]