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XTech 2008: “The Web on the Move” — 6-9 May 2008, Dublin, Ireland
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Orangutans, Oxen and Ogham stones. Mulling the movable Web

Sean McGrath (Propylon)
11:00 Friday, 9 May 2008
Keynote Goldsmiths 1 & 2
Chair: Edd Dumbill (Useful Information Company)

Sean leads us on a Celtic-tinted safari of the Web featuring mythical creatures, tenuous analogies and curious interconnections. The mission: to boldly split all necessary infinitives and go where no Web has gone before.

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Sean McGrath

Propylon

Sean McGrath graduated in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 1987. He has worked for 20 years in the IT industry, and is a vocal proponent of the power of mashups, microformats, syndication formats and dynamically-typed programming environments. He is CTO with legislative software specialists Propylon. Sean served as an invited expert to the W3C Special Interest Group that created XML in 1997. He is an early innovator in the mobile web: he was using RSS and WAP in 1999; he was the architect of Mission Control, an early mobile portal; and he was also involved in the foundation of Irish mobile social networking company NewBay. Sean is the author of three books on markup languages (two on XML and one on SGML). He has been running an Irish technology blog since 2002. Sean has also been a columnist for ITWorld for the past six years (1, 2).