Matt Biddulph is the nomadic CTO of Dopplr, the social network for frequent travellers.
He started out in 1994 building search engines on CD-ROM, and now specialises in digital media, social software and putting data on the web.
In past lives he was a creative technologist for hire, working with companies like Nature, Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream.
New websites don't exist in a vacuum any more. Users expect integration with the broad platform of Web 2.0.
Taking examples from the Ruby on Rails implementation of Dopplr (the social network for frequent travellers) this talk will show developers how to:
* Import social networks from popular sites like GMail, Twitter and Livejournal
* Integrate with Facebook
* Create and consume people and event data using Microformats
* Use OpenID not just for login but also to aggregate user information from OpenID providers like AIM and Livejournal
* Work with OAuth, the emerging open standard for API authentication