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Oreilly’s Web 2.0 Expo New York ’09 revolved around the approach of “Less is More”, and especially in these rough times for all, including the tech industry.

Speakers of this event showed up from both coasts and were distributed across multiple tracks ( user interaction design,…) and there was a good representation from Europe as well.

This blog post lists the links of interest that we took home with us after attending the Web 2.0 Expo and spent time going through once we were back in the office.

Follow the link below to get a copy of all presentations given at the conference. Almost all speakers made sure that they slideshare their talks.

http://www.web2expo.com/webexny2009/public/schedule/proceedings

Every speaker had his / her favorite book that they would highly recommend. We thought you might be interested in these books so we listed them here (we ended up placing a nice big order from Amazon ourselves – some were kindled and some were hard copies).

For more detailed information about the web2expo, a twitter search for the hashtag #w2e will provide ample info.

Speaking of twitter, we would love to connect with you there @telephonedotcom

Take care!

• Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces – Carolyn Snyder
• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships – Daniel Goleman
• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives – Nicholas Christakis and James H. Fowler
• The Whuffie Factor – Tara Hunt
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – Cory Doctorow (science fiction book that mentions Whuffie)
• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures – Dan Rome
• Selling To The VP of NO – David Gray
• Envisioning Information – Edward R. Tufte
• Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability – Steve Krug (number one seller of user experience books)
• Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust – Chris Brogan
• Prototyping: a Practitioner’s Guide (New!) – Todd Zaki Warfel
• The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff (Prentice Hall) – Clara Shih
• Life, Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back – Douglas Rushkoff
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
• Rape in Cyberspace – Julian Dubell (article)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (collaboration of many authors)
• Confessions of a Public Speaker – Scott Berkun
• Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful – Beth Noveck
• Designing Interactions – Bill Moggridge
• Content First: Why Content Strategy Will Save the Web – Kristina Halvorson (PDF)
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath
• Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web – Jessy James Garett

We are opening up our platform for you! This allows you to make much more of your telephone.com account by adding your own twist to your messaging style.

So head over and try it out or tell your developer friends!

There are practically no more limits to what you can send by SMS as the full power of the SMS platform is now at your disposal! 

With the set of API methods in your hands, you can now implement your own telephone.com SMS applications to add any features you want. Any of your existing applications can now send you SMSes with the content of your choice!

Here’s how to proceed: 

1) Go to “developer’s corner” on telephone.com

2) Sign up for your API key

3) Within a period of 48 hours, the Telephone Team will review your request and issue you an API key by email.

3) That’s it! You might wish to read into the methods by visiting the “developer’s corner” and scrolling down.

If you want us to list your application, please contact us via our “Support” section.

Unleash your creative muses and implement any application you might think of!

Telephone Team