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2007 June | Web Directions

Archive for June, 2007

Web Directions speakers in the news - Gian Sampson-Wild

• In: speakers, trends
• By: john
• June 28th, 2007

While she might not e speaking this year, last year's speaker Gian Sampson-Wild has an important role to play in conjunction with Web Directions South this year, which we'll be announcing next week. For now, she's been in the news a fair bit, and has just published an article on ...

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Early bird discount ending very soon

• In: news
• By: john
• June 27th, 2007

Just a quick note for anyone interested in coming to Web Directions for the super discounted price of $200 off, only $795AUD, then you had better move quickly. As has become a tradition, we are extending this discount period for a few more days, until next Wednesday, July 4th - ...

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Community

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• June 26th, 2007

While it didn't make it to the list, I fear this word has probably become so widely and thoughtlessly used as to render it meaningless, so it probably should have a place on this other list. However, for want of a better term, I shall push on regardless. I'm ...

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Web Directions speakers in the news - Angela Beesley

• In: speakers
• By: john
• June 22nd, 2007

Angela Beesley, speaking on Wikis and community collaboration in our management/strategy track is, along with Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) a founder of Wikia, which aims to be "To be the definitive, unbiased resource of the Web.". Read/Write Web is profiling Wikia today. They are doing ...

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Early Bird ends June 30 (tomorrow week)

• In: news
• By: john
• June 21st, 2007

Moving to a much bigger venue at Darling Harbour this year was a bit of a risk. Above all, a big venue can feel very empty even with a lot of people in it. But registrations have taken off really well this year, so hopefully the gamble will pay off. ...

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Looking for a place to party till dawn after Web Directions?

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• June 19th, 2007

Don't just stand around like a pork chop after the closing night party! Impress your newly found friends by whipping out your Opera Mini and pulling up this bookmarked Gridskipper post: Drink Till Dawn in Sydney. Time was when rubbing shoulders with the doyennes of The Taxi Club ...

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Aussie Startup “Remember the Milk” featured in Slate

• In: business, news
• By: john
• June 18th, 2007

We've always been fans here at Web Directions of "Remember the Milk", an amazingly richly featured "to do" app online. Emily Boyd, one of the founders, came and spoke at an event of ours last year, and she and Omar Kilani, the brains behind the app both came to ...

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Westciv free self paced courses back online

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• June 17th, 2007

This week Westciv is restarting the free course program, kicking off with the brand new edition of their CSS Level 1 course. CSS Level 1 starts with the absolute foundations of CSS and standards based web development so it's probably a little too basic for regular readers of this blog. However, ...

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iPhone/Safari is the Mosaic of the Mobile Web

• In: speakers, trends
• By: john
• June 11th, 2007

Really old folks like me remember a time before the web. And then a time when the web was an interesting technology. And then Mosaic, the browser which by virtue of (many people would argue) incorporating inline images in web pages kickstarted the web. I think that in the wake ...

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“Getting” Web 2.0

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• June 7th, 2007

Published today in Smart Company, a newly started online Australian magazine focussing on business and technology is an articale by Brad Howarth, Australia's leading business/technology Journalist (at least in my opinion), "Web 2.0: the new divide". Brad and I spoke recently, and quite a bit of what ...

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Web Directions - it’s not just for geeks

• In: speakers
• By: john
• June 2nd, 2007

Since last week's launch there's been a lot of coverage online about the conference (and brisk signups too, thanks very much for those who have signed up already, we are off to a cracking start). One thing that a number of people have mentioned is that Web Directions is a ...

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The McFarlane Prize for 2007

• In: news
• By: john
• June 2nd, 2007

Just a quick note to let you know that this year we'll again be organising the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design. Nominations will open soon, for sites built by Australian individuals and teams between August 1st 2006 and July 31st 2007. The quality of entries last ...

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