Telegraph Labs hosts web developer open house weekend

Posted by Martin Stabe on 26 April 2008 at 11:19
Tags: Online

Telegraph Labs, the Telegraph web development team’s unit that experiments with new tools, is hosting a developer weekend today and tomorrow.

This morning, there will be a number of presentations and training sessions followed by a development competition tomorrow.

As you would expect from an event like this, there will be plenty of live blogging, Twittering, and photo posting on Flickr.

Telegraph chief information officer Paul Cheesbrough opened the weekend by stressing that like all newspapers, the Telegraph is “undergoing a quiet revolution”, where the average age, particularly of the technology team, is being driven down.

The new Telegraph Labs, he says, will be developing new products to launch The Telegraph is creating a space for the Telegraph Labs to create new ideas and products to launch online.

Some of the results of this weekend are likely to developed further under the Telegraph Labs brand he stresses

“We really want a close link with the development community,” he says.

Cheesbrough’s introduction will be followed this morning with presentations from representatives of Google, Adobe, Digg, and Apple.

Updates to follow all day, both here and at the great blog run by Telegraph communities editor Shane Richmond…

Tags: Online