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Toolicious Presentation at SoCon07
- 1. T.oolicio.us
- 2. Bringing Good Things™ To the Web
- 3. First … Who am I?
- 4. A Georgia Tech Grad
- 5. Unstated Graduation Year:
- 6. I Founded In 1994
- 7. We Sold Components and Tools To Developers
- 8. That is… Visual Basic Developers
- 9. Really FAST We grew
- 10. Xtras Made it to #123 In 1999
- 11. On The:
- 12. We Helped Developers Find Components We Made a Market for Component Vendors We did Good Things™
- 13. I Stopped Believing In What We Sold But around 2005
- 14. Were a Better Answer It Became Clear To Me Open-Source Components and Tools
- 15. And Went Searching So I Sold My Stake In Xtras
- 16. And Together We Created: I Met Ben Coffey During my search
- 18. with ethos of sites like del.icio.us The name combines a "Tools" concept
- 19. So what is Toolicious?
- 21. As in… The Parable of the Blind Men and The Elephant
- 22. Each Blind Man Describing the Elephant Differently: A Wall… A Spear… A Snake… A Tree… A Fan… A Rope!
- 23. It is all in the Perspective
- 24. So Toolicious is Different Things To Different People
- 25. Enhanced Functionality, Made Consistent Common Functionality on a Web Page For Web Users:
- 26. Stuff Like: Print this page Save this page Email this page Digg this page Tag this page
- 27. Plus stuff like: Get the Feed Hack the URL Go to Home Table of Contents Plus lots more Planned
- 28. Let me show you
- 29. For Bloggers and Website Owners: (Back to the Elephant) Visible Value for Standards-based Semantic Markup
- 30. Your Users Get Enhanced Functionality Faster Submissions to Digg More del.icio.us Tags No Effort Table of Contents And Much More Planned
- 31. All You Have to Do is Add This: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://get.t.oolicio.us/toolicious.js"></script>
- 32. Oh, and add Semantic Markup… Like using <H1> thru <H3> tags for headings Instead of <B> and <BR> And in the Future, Lots More
- 33. Toolicious is Open-Source (GPL) For JavaScript Developers:
- 34. JavaScript Developers can add: Custom Links Custom Dropdowns Custom Annotations Custom Schedulers
- 35. We’ll offer a Core Toolbar Site owners can add their own customizations
- 36. Will be community driven. And the Whole Process…
- 37. So, our 3 constituents are: Web Users Bloggers/Website Owners JavaScript Developers
- 38. We'll deliver Toolicious as: Browser Plug-in for Web Users A JavaScript File for Bloggers/Web Site Owners
- 39. For Bloggers/Web Site Owners: We can host for you at http:// get.t.oolici.us / Or You Can Host it on your Own Web Server(s)
- 40. We Pledge: To take no action our constituencies would consider to be untrustworthy, and If we do accidentally take such an action, we will reverse those actions as quickly as possible.
- 41. We Envision Lots of Cool Features! Advanced Print Dialog: Omit Sidebars, Print TOC, etc. Multiple Submit Dialogs: (Digg / Reddit / StumbleUpon / etc.) And Much More Planned!
- 42. You know, like a Google Beta This is a Beta
- 43. Our Vision: For all Users and Websites to Use Toolicious To bring Consistency and Standards-based Semantic Markup To Make the Web Better for Everyone
- 44. Just Stop me and Ask Questions? (But Please Remember, It is Still a Beta!)
- 45. Call to Action: Please Join Our Community Provide Feedback Help Us Offer Great Functionality [email_address] http://t.oolicio.us/participate/
- 46. One Last Thing: I recently founded the Meetup.com Group: The Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs It’s a Peer Mentoring and Relationship Building Group focused on Helping Members Succeed. We require you put a lot in, but those who do will get a lot out. If you are interested: http://www.atlanta-web.org