Developing for Twitter

Date: 12th May 2010 - Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University, City Campus, LS1 3HE

Raffi is a hacker, writer, and a tinkerer and most recently, he is a member of the API/Platform team at Twitter. He is also authoring the forthcoming book "re:sources"

Previously, he was a co-founder in WattzOn.com, the founding partner of Synthesis Studios, an Adjunct Associate Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and  earned a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees from MIT and the MIT Media Lab.

Raffi is currently the Platform/API Technical Lead at Twitter, behind its geospatial APIs and the notion of adding "where" to Twitter's sense of "when".

Raffi will be leading a workshop on developing applications and services for the Twitter ecosystem and touching on some of the intracacies and technicalities of working with Twitter's platform.