Blank Slate Css Meetup
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Blank Slate is a web platform that provides APIs for developing, sharing, monetizing, and monitoring web applications, aiming to simplify the application development process with real-time analytics and infrastructure support. The platform allows users to manage data and users without coding, integrates with payment gateways, and offers significant business and technical benefits including speed to market and reduced capital expenditures. The beta customer program invites developers and business people to join, providing resources such as a free account, developer guides, and community support.
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Blank Slate Css Meetup
- 1. Introduction to Blank Slate and the Beta Customer Program Ning Zhou (CTO) Blank Slate Factory, Inc. [email_address] www.blankslate.com November 4, 2009
- 2. In-Depth Real-time Analytics Sharing through APIs Worry free application infrastructure Know who’s doing what beyond just page views No need to build your own Let the cloud do the heavy lifting Blank Slate is a web platform that offers a complete set of APIs for making, sharing, monetizing, and monitoring web applications.
- 3. APIs are proving to be a critical part of the web. APIs enable applications to be shared, monitored and monetized in new ways. Twitter, Ebay, Amazon, and Google APIs have demonstrated this on the big stage. Now APIs are showing the same powerful effects in diverse communities across the web. Blank Slate is a platform that extends the API into web app development and delivery itself. Blank Slate eases the development process, makes sharing and monetizing apps thru APIs a snap, and provides real-time analytics so people can see exactly how their applications are being used.
- 4. Experienced Management Team Kael Goodman (CEO) - www.linkedin.com/in/kaelgoodman Experienced entrepreneur and business leader. Previous startup usmoving.com acquired by subsidiary of Allied Van Lines in 2000. Former Deputy Commissioner, CIO of the NYC Department of Correction and Probation where he brought his entrepreneurial energy to a conventional, large-scale technology environment B.A in Philosophy from Vassar College, and an MBA from The Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA Ning Zhou (CTO) - www.linkedin.com/in/ningzhou Seasoned technologist specializing in design and delivery of complex software projects Former award winning IT Architect at IBM consulting, leading enterprise projects for fortune 100 companies such as Intel and Pfizer B.Sci. in Computer Science from Baylor University
- 5. The Blank Slate APIs cover typical web application needs. Data & Files Store, manage and secure your data (no data modeling needed) Add and search data quickly and easily Share your data with no coding Users Store, manage and authenticate users Customize user profiles Full encryption through 256bit SSL Tie users to data for content level security Payments Easy to use yet secure interface to PayPal and other payment gateways Track your transactions Tie payments to your applications Analytics Gain real-time insight to deep application behavior Monitor the health and usage of your applications
- 6. Blank Slate offers many business and technical benefits. Business Benefits Focus on customers Speed to Market No capital expenditures Reduce skill set required to execute Complete Visibility Subscription pricing Technical Benefits Focus on User Experience / UI Tier No infrastructure setup Work with any programming language and IDE No data modeling
- 7. Since Blank Slate uses APIs, developers can use any IDE (Eclipse, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, notepad, whatever) and language they want (PHP, RoR, .Net, Java, etc). We offer a lightweight dashboard to manage APIs.
- 8. Spent over a year of focused development on the platform Built products to help design and validate platform Build Beta Customer Program and Iterate Through Feedback Launch $$$ We are here We have been heads down building the platform and eating our own dog food. The Blank Slate Platform is stable and is supporting several revenue generating products. May July Aug Sept 2009
- 9. Business People Ideas Business Know-How Technology People Ideas Development skills Blank Slate beta customers can be developers and/or business people -- and we're helping to match people with complementary skills. Blank Slate Beta Customer Program
- 10. We’re offering NY CSS members the opportunity to join the Blank Slate customer beta program. Why join the beta customer program? Get your app going now Find people with complementary skill sets Get business and technical advice and support from Blank Slate What do I get in the beta customer program? Free Account Developers Guide Reference Guide Community of developers
- 11. Let’s move to the demo!
- 12. Example - A form Built Using the Blank Slate Form Submit API One line of code creates place to submit, manage, and retrieve data Any HTML Form
- 13. Example - A simple web app using the Blank Slate API The Ajax Submit API is incorporated in to a code snippet enabling easy distribution
- 14. If you’re interested in the Blank Slate Beta Customer Program, or want more information, please email [email_address]