Steemit: The Killer App For Blockchain Mass Adoption (my RESTfest 5 in 5 talk)
This past weekend, I attended RESTfest for the 5th year in a row. It's an amazing conference with some of the brightest minds in the API space. These people write the books and develop the specifications for the API technology developers around the world use. The cool thing about RESTfest is everyone who attends gives a talk. This year, I did something a little different. Instead of talking about my API or patterns I'm seeing in the API space, I talked about Steemit. I even wore my Steemit T-Shirt. :)
It's just under 8 minutes long. I hope you enjoy it!
REST Fest 2016 \ Luke Stokes \ FiveInFive from REST Fest on Vimeo.
The response I got from those in attendance was really positive. There were also some fun Twitter conversations that continued after the conference was over.
This is an exciting technology, and I for one am happy to be a part of it.
Steem On
My talk description can be found here on the RESTfest wiki, along with links to the pages I was viewing during the presentation.
Love it, I hope we see a lot more presentations like this creeping into the web development world. This technology (from the perspective of a web dev) is so incredibly exciting and different than what we've been doing for the past 20+ years. Having talks at conferences will hopefully get other developers excited too, much more than any other crypto ever has.
Thanks @jesta! I completely agree. I feel the same way about this technology. The great thing about the RESTfest videos is they live on for a long time and many people go back through them later. The attendees every year are really some of the most incredible API developers out there.
Oh, and thanks for resteeming it! :)
Love all you guys for everything you have sacrificed to bring us closer together through the divine power of love :) Namaste~! Look forward to meeting everybody @steemfest
great talk luke, very to the point. helps me also with the way to explaining steemit. thx!
Thanks @roelandp!
actually, i did a lil presentation at TodaysArt Festival last saturday and didn't bother explaining Steem, instead just played the 2 first minutes of your RESTfest vid :) My video of that video (and the rest) is (not yet) live.
Hahah! no way. That's awesome. Thanks @roelandp :)
You are a nice speaker! Looking forward to see you on the Steem Festival, and why not hear a presentation there from you! (?)
Thanks @liondani. I want to go to Steem Festival, but I haven't been able to convince @corinnestokes yet. It's a lot of money to fly from the U.S. and get a hotel and such, so she's not too fond of the idea. She runs the budget like a well-oiled machine and I love her for it... but I still want to go. :)
I'd love to give talks in the crypto space. I haven't been to a crypto conference yet, but I will eventually.
@christoryan
Great speech man! Love it, short and sweet to get people interested...
Thank you!
thank you for spreading the word!
Thanks for all the work you're doing also, @cristi! Great appreciated.
Did the audience get excited?
Yes! I had a lot of great conversations afterwards and during lunch times.
How many already knew about Steemit?
I don't think anyone did.
Amazing!
Good job Luke. Way to go on getting this out there. I look forward to more and more people coming to steemit and/or the steem blockchain.
Thanks @dwinblood. Me too :)