Over the last few months, I've started inviting web gurus I know to give
tech talks at Google. It's been great to kick off this speaker series with such luminaries as
John Resig,
Doug Crockford, and
PPK. (
I snuck in there, too.) The biggest benefit from these talks is
the release of the videos and slides. The videos are popular, with thousands of viewers. The
videos make it possible to share these insights with a wider audience who might not be at the
next tech conference or workshop.
For various reasons (t-shirts, YouTube
playlist), it's beneficial to give this speaker series a name. I've decided to call it
Web Exponents. I use "exponents" in the sense of "a
person who actively supports or favors a cause". The cause, in this case, is evangelizing
innovation and best practices in web development. And now, thanks to fellow Googler Mark Chow,
we have the
Web Exponents playlist on YouTube. You can find
all the past and future videos there.
Web
E
xponents speakers coming up next include Rob Campbell (Firebug) and
Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo! JavaScript expert). I'll write a blog post for these and other future
talks, and you can subscribe to the
playlist to make sure you catch all the videos.
And now for the mandatory cheesy tagline:
Web Exponents -
raising web technology to a higher power.By Steve Souders, Performance
Evangelist
