The JSConf Trail

The Zappos Family of Companies, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is a leader in online apparel and footwear sales by striving to provide shoppers the best possible service and selection. We carry millions of products from over 1000 footwear and apparel brands. Established in 1999, we are currently located in Las Vegas, NV, Shepherdsville, KY, and with a brand-spanking new extension software development shop, we're back in our "hometown," San Francisco, CA. There are approximately 2,500 Zapponians, but continual growth makes that number ever-increasing.

We've been asked by a lot of people how we've grown so quickly, and the answer is actually really simple...we've aligned the entire organization around one mission: to provide the best customer service possible. Internally, we call this our WOW philosophy.

And, we believe that it's our unique, "fun and a little weird" culture that drives the WOW. In January 2011, Zappos earned #6 on the 2010 Fortune: 100 Best Companies to Work For List, and our sales exceed 1 billion dollars a year. We think we might be on to something here...

Sponsoring the Beer Tasting Pirate Party.

At Palm, the web is at the foundation of everything we do. As the only mobile platform built on the web, Palm webOS offers developers a thriving environment for creating, distributing, and promoting applications. From an SDK based on web standards to a developer program that leverages the web to deliver openness and choice in distribution, we are making it easier than ever before to take your web skills to mobile. Of course, this is only the beginning. We believe the web is the future of mobile development, and we're excited to be a part of the community that is driving this amazing transformation. For more information visit http://developer.palm.com/.

Sponsoring the 8-Bit Revenge Party.

The Mozilla Corporation is a global community dedicated to building free, open source products and technologies that improve the online experience for people everywhere. We work in the open with a highly disciplined, transparent and cooperative development process, under the umbrella of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. As a wholly owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation organizes the development and marketing of Mozilla products. This unique structure has enabled Mozilla to financially support and cultivate competitive, viable community innovation. For more information, visit www.mozilla.com.

Sponsoring The Radical Revolution at the Closing Hammer Party.

Yammer (www.yammer.com) is the leader in enterprise social networking, providing a secure way for employees to communicate, collaborate, and share information. The basic version of Yammer is free, and customers can pay to upgrade their network to receive additional administrative and security controls, priority customer service and a dedicated customer success manager. More than 100,000 companies and organizations are using our award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to improve employee productivity and engagement.

Sponsoring the Closing Hammer Party.

uxebu has been endangering the javascript waters since 2008 with the mission to promote and push incredibly forward thinking javascript projects, develop (mobile) cross platform apps and provide cutting edge services to our customers. Through our close partnership with leading companies in the mobile sector, uxebu is the place to go to for quality development and support for (mobile) web apps. If not developing and tinkering on javascript related things you can find the uxebu crew on a bunch of conferences and dev events around

Ogilvy is one of the top ten marketing communications firms worldwide and the leading global network in one to one marketing. Today, Ogilvy employs over 15,000 people in 450 offices around the world. It is a member of the WPP family of companies. Our tradition of providing training and career development to our talent began with founder - David Ogilvy- and continues today over 60 years later. The strength of our reputation however, continues to lie in the collective skills and talents of the individuals we hire.

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Sponsoring transportation for Tuesday night.

Shopify <3 Javascript developers.

Not only are we the easiest way to sell stuff online via a beautiful, customizable shop, but we're also the easiest e-commerce platform to integrate with and build stuff on top of.

Shopify prides itself on concentrating on the 80% of what every shop owner needs, and does a really, really good job of it.

Here's where you come in: there's still 20% left that some merchants need - services like product recommendation engines, in-browser chat, SalesForce and Facebook integration, on demand tshirt printing, an Arduino thing that lights up every time a sale happens, etc. The list is endless. Make us a thing that lets you take a picture of a thing, add it to your store, and post on Craigslist. Awesome.

Last year we watched about $100 million dollars of stuff sold on Shopify. There is a ton of room here and we want to help you make cool stuff for our merchants and get into http://apps.shopify.com

Check out http://shopify.com/partners - we have a Node.js adapter and a JSON API.

Love,
@shopifyapi

Sponsoring the conference wifi.

Internet Explorer 9 delivers a more beautiful web by embracing HTML5 and using hardware acceleration to bring it to life on the PC and soon Windows Phone. IE9 delivers on the promise of using the web to create true applications through its Pinned Sites integration with Windows 7. And IE9 is committed to a more interoperable web, so developers can write the same mark-up once and have it work across browsers.

The IE team loves HTML5 so much, we launched Dev Unplugged: a contest to push the limits of modern browsers without the use of plug-ins. Developers can choose to either create a Gaming app or a Music app for the chance to win over $40k in prizes. The Grand Prize is $9k in cash and a fully-loaded trip to attend the Future of Web Apps in Las Vegas! The submission deadline is May 8th, so don’t wait to show us what you can do!

Sponsoring your daily rations of food on the JSConf Trail (hint: you do not have to hunt for them).

Threefourteen is all about Mobile Web Application development. Our team have a long history of creating web applications both on and off the mobile platform. We work with customers from all over the world to deliver training, application development and consulting.

Sponsoring your daily regimen of BACON.

SmugMug sets the standard for online photo hosting and sharing. Whether you shoot photo or video, there’s room for it all with SmugMug’s totally unlimited uploads. Best of all, SmugMug never shrinks your photos to save space. Zip up and download your originals with a click, turning your beautiful photo galleries into safe backups. With customizable privacy options, easy order fulfillment and control over your site's look and feel, you get tons of tools and features for as little as $5/month. Shoot, print and share with SmugMug.

Sponsoring the post-conference community site!!!

Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® 24-hour network delivers smart television to more than 240 million homes. BLOOMBERG RADIO® services broadcast via SIRIUS XM Radio and 1worldspace™ satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. The award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® financial news and information Web site provide news and insight to businesses and investors.

Sponsoring the hangover brunch.

R/GA is a leader in the complex process of combining creative and technical pursuits. Developers and technical architects are given the chance to participate directly in the early stages of the creative process instead of simply executing after ideas are already baked. At R/GA programmers are not "stuck in the back," in fact many of our most successful and award-winning projects were inspired by technical minds. It's this global pairing of technical and creative skill that's the power of R/GA.

R/GA is a full-service digital agency that transforms the way people interact with brands. A commitment to technology, design, strategy and innovation defines R/GA's continuing legacy as an iconoclast in the world of communications and marketing. With diverse offerings including mobile, retail and product design, R/GA's model quickly adapts to the fast moving digital trends.

Founded in 1977, R/GA has received the most prestigious creative awards for film, broadcast, design, advertising, and interactive. It was selected as Adweek's "Digital Agency of the Decade" and "Digital Agency of the Year" in 2009. Advertising Age also named R/GA one of the "Top 10 Agencies of the Decade" and Fast Company named us one of the "Top 10 Most Innovative Advertising & Marketing Companies." Headquartered in New York with offices located throughout the world, R/GA is part of The Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations.

Sponsoring the JSConf Track B.

Rackspace® Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting." For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.

Sponsoring the code(food,bar) event at JSConf.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Sponsoring arcade night at the 8-Bit Revenge Party.

Facebook is a social utility that helps over 500 million people around the world communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and over the past few years, the company has developed a number of open source infrastructure technologies to support the site's growth including HipHop for PHP, Cassandra, Hive, Scribe, and Thrift. Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.

Sponsoring the JSConf Hacker Lounge.

Jupiter is dedicated to making JavaScript and the web an easy and enjoyable place to develop kick-ass apps. We open-source everything and provide expert web application development, support, and training. We've collected our experience delivering enterprise JavaScript applications and made it publicly available as JavaScriptMVC.

JavaScriptMVC leverages the best tools and techniques in JavaScript development, and integrates them into a single package. It brings direction to the madness of JavaScript development, and guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.

Sponsoring the JSConf Significant Others Track.

Sencha makes application frameworks that equip developers to create, deploy, and optimize compelling experiences using web-standard technologies. The company's flagship products, Ext JS and Sencha Touch, are a cross-browser JavaScript frameworks which produce rich internet applications for desktop and mobile devices. Each framework includes high-performance, customizable UI building blocks, well-architected, extensible component models, and intuitive, easy-to-use APIs. More than one million developers worldwide—representing more than 150,000 companies—use the Sencha family of products to build amazing applications every day. Visit Sencha on the web at www.sencha.com, read the Sencha blog, and follow us on @senchainc.

Sponsoring the JSConf 2011 videos available for free shortly after the conference.

Basho Technologies, is the creator and commercial sponsor of Riak, an open source, scalable, non-relational database being used in production by companies including Mozilla, Comcast, Wikia, and Mochi Media.

Why is Basho sponsoring JSConf and NodeConf? Because we have an up-and-coming community of JavaScript users that sustain us with hard work, positivity, and code contributions, and we are committed to making their lives easier with a scalable, rock-solid, fault-tolerant database for production applications.

Basho was founded in January 2008 by a core group of Software Architects, Engineers and Executive Leadership from Akamai Technologies and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sponsoring the JSConf 2011 photos by Mathias Meyer available forever and for free shortly after the conference.

Groupon, launched in November 2008 in Chicago, features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, eat, see and buy in more than 300 markets around the world. Groupon uses collective buying power to offer unbeatable prices and provide a win-win for businesses and consumers, delivering more than 400 daily deals globally.

Sponsoring the JSConf Private Reserve Beer Samples at the Beer Tasting Pirate Party.

Yahoo! is an innovative technology company that operates the largest digital media, content, and communications business in the world. The Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) offers web services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone.

YDN is also home to the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI). The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written with JavaScript and CSS, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. YUI is available under a BSD license and is free for all uses. YUI is proven, scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo! and contributors from around the world, it's an industrial-strength JavaScript library for professionals who love JavaScript.

Sponsoring the JSConf Track A.

Bocoup (www.bocoup.com) is a JavaScript company, developing new JavaScript related technologies and implementing them for clients. In addition to commercial projects, we are focused on researching next generation browser technologies and non-desktop web application user interaction. We also contribute to and lead numerous open source projects, run events, workshops and training, and develop products internally.

Sponsoring the Pre-JSConf Workshops.