Defrag Blog

I mentioned the growing importance of APIs in the “defrag topic-verse” here, and Alcatel-Lucent is going to be making waves at the upcoming conference. But, not being the kind of folks that wait around, they went and acquired ProgrammableWeb in the meantime. Both companies (Alcatel-Lucent and ProgrammableWeb) were participants at our recent Glue conference, and I like all parties involved - great acquisition. If you want to understand the rise of APIs, app marketplaces and dumb pipes, Defrag is the place to wrap your noggin around this puppy.

In the meantime, I wanted to provide a link recap of my recent “blog series.” You actually might not have realized it was a series, but in truth, the separate posts are meant to be taken as a conclusive whole; a foundational document for this year’s conference, if you will. The post (in order) are:

Defrag: A Beginning

Defrag and Data

Defrag Back and Forward

Defrag and the Bazaar

Defrag and the Meta

Defrag in the Weeds

Lastly, I’m opening up two unique sponsorship opportunities (that aren’t currently listed in the sponsor doc):

1. The ability to introduce one of our esteemed keynoters (and then have some “interaction time” with them and the Defrag attendees/participants afterwards).

2. The ability to be a Defrag video sponsor — think “TED-like videos” with a front-roll commercial (short) that we release post show.

They’re both unique and extremely limited (I’m only taking one video sponsor), so if you want in, drop me a line ASAP (enorlinATmac.com).