Gavin Bell – Building Social Web Sites
Gavin Bell is a key figure on the London developer scene. I first came across him when he showed me to the O’Reilly stand at Open Tech at Hammersmith, filling me in on the day’s events with his gentle Northern Irish brogue. I have seen him present half a dozen times and he’s never less than engaging, illuminating and thought-provoking. Which can also be said for his book, Building Social Web Applications which he wrote for O’Reilly. He blogs at Take One Onion and is a wearer of great shirts.
I interviewed Gavin at his offices at Nature in London, where we talked about how the book came about and who its for, among many other things.
Gavin Bell from oreillygmt on Vimeo.
openbusiness.cc also did a short interview with me, Adrian McEwan et al, about the coolest tech right now. Oddily enough, the thing that first came to mind involved the ready availability of fresh pastries:
http://www.openbusiness.cc/2010/08/05/minibar-july/
And here’s the link to bakertweet:
http://www.bakertweet.com/
Gavin also did an interview with openbusiness.cc, which can be seen here:
http://www.openbusiness.cc/2010/07/09/gavin-bell-interview/