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Archive for September, 2007

2007 McFarlane Prize

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 30th, 2007

Apologies for the slightly belated announcement of the winners of this years prize. As announced last week, the shortlist for this year's prize were EQASRM by Angela Bonfato Creative and Spoon Media Occupational Psychiatry by August Andrews Must Resign by Michael Koukoullis SitePoint Design Contests by SitePoint...

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Ben Winter-Giles - Managing agile projects within large organisations

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

So you work at enterprise level. Lots of stake holders, lots of competition for time, need to deliver to multiple demands that…POP up. All projects incur change over time, that’s the way of the world. Using a benefits driven approach to delivery rather than a process driven or methodology governed approach frees the team to think laterally, and be responsive to client demands.

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• Tags
• agile methodology
• project management
• wds07

Angela Beesley - Wikis and community collaboration

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

In this session, Angela Beesley will explain how Wikia is not only hosting but actively developing wikis and creating hundreds of thriving communities. The methods and processes that have led Wikipedia to be the world’s largest encyclopedia can be adopted for any type of wiki use, including educational and business communities. Using examples from successful online wiki communities, Angela will explain how to enable a wiki community to manage itself, and how to minimise the common problems that wikis have, including ways to deal with unhelpful or unreliable information, lack of adoption of a wiki, and the problems of malicious edits on open wikis.

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• Tags
• online communities
• wds07
• wikis

Andrew Downie and Grant Focas - Javascript and other coding for good or evil

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

When Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is finally released, the status of Javascript will be quite different to that assigned to it in Version 1.0 back in 1999. Back then, Javascript was to “degrade gracefully”. Currently AJAX offers increased usability for visual users, but may detract from accessibility. In future, use of JavaScript will be encouraged but, of course, must enhance rather than detract from accessibility. During this presentation, Andrew and Grant will demonstrate how Javascript, when implemented well, offers enhanced accessibility. By way of balance, they will also present examples of scripting that causes problems. Importantly, they will provide corrections to the errant coding.

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• Tags
• accessibility
• ajax
• coding
• javascript
• wds07

Rob Manson and Alex Young - E is for everywhere

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

In 1998 the American Dialect Society voted “e-” (as in electronic) as the “word of the year”. This signified how important the internet had become in our world. Almost 10 years later we’re undergoing an even larger change. Only this time the “e-” prefix stands for “everywhere”. Mobile content, services and commerce are changing the way we communicate, work and do business. And these changes are building upon the already massive revolutions brought about by the internet - only faster and made more pervasive. This presentation will look at the strategic issues facing managers and developers as they strive to adapt to this literally “moving” target.

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• Tags
• mobile
• strategy
• wds07

Adrian Holovaty - Being smart about your data

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

The Web is full of information that is presented inefficiently - both for machines and for humans. Adrian Holovaty shares philosophies and strategies for efficient data collection and information design, drawing from his experiences at data-heavy news sites lawrence.com, washingtonpost.com) and side projects such as chicagocrime.org.

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• Tags
• coding
• data
• wds07

Aaron Gustafson - Learning to love forms

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Forms. We all have to make ‘em, but few of us love ‘em. Aaron Gustafson believes that this is because we don’t understand them. In this session, we will explore forms from top to bottom, examining how they work and how their components can be incorporated with other elements to maximize accessibility, improve semantics, and allow for more flexible styling. You’ll get to see the complete picture with forms, including error, warning and formatting messages, styling and its implications, as well as best practices for manipulation with Javascript and Ajax.

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• Tags
• ajax
• coding
• css
• forms
• html
• javascript
• wds07

Stephen Cox - Building ethnography into the design process

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Working in usability and user experience can give you some great insights into the product design process. Yet few organisations know how to take advantage of this information silo. As a user experience expert do you sometimes wish you could have more input into product ideas handed down from above? Ever wanted to have the ear of business strategists? Even be best friends with marketers and sales people? Stephen Cox explores some of the exciting things that can happen when the disciplines of usability and user experience are allowed to seep out into the realms of strategic and tactical design innovation. He approaches the field of ethnographic design research in practical terms illustrating how News Digital Media has come to embrace the idea of extensive customer research, and the benefits that this has brought to different levels of the organisation.

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• Tags
• design
• ethnography
• innovation
• strategy
• usability
• user experience
• wds07

Sebastian Chan - Social media and Government 2.0

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

More than ever before there is an enormous amount of publicly held data about our community, our culture, and citizens. How can government respond to the opportunities of Web 2.0? How can government websites and databases become more citizen-centric, and more responsive by leveraging social media? In 2006 the Powerhouse Musuem, a NSW State Government institiution, opened its core information asset - its collection and research database - to public tagging, and dynamic user-driven recommendations. In the same year the Museum launched a range of public-facing blogs, inviting comment from visitors and audiences. Sebastian Chan will discuss why the museum has made these very successful forays into social media, and how a small in-house web development unit was able to push through and launch a project which is counted among Australia’s top web 2.0 applications. If you work in a large organisation and have dreams of social media, do not miss this session.

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• Tags
• government
• social media
• user generated content

Raul Vera - Mashups, web apps and APIs

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Hear all about the exciting possibilities created by these technologies from Google Australia.

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• Tags
• APIs
• mashups
• wds07
• web apps

Rashmi Sinha - The perils of popularity

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Can web-based social systems with their wide reach, user-generated and user-filtered content harness the wisdom of crowds? Duncan Watts’ recent experiments reveal how popularity based web social systems can throw up fickle, random trends that are essentially unreplicable, and only tangentially related to quality. However, popularity as a way to filter information continues to rise in popularity - replacing hierarchical menus, overtaking tags, and even used in lieu of relevance. Rashmi will link decades of psychology research on group decision making and social influence to what is happening on the web today. She will discuss different models of popularity based filtering such as Digg and YouTube. What are ways to avoid the Watts dilemma - including Google’s model of sociality, tag-based social systems, and object-based social networks. She will present some principles for the design of web social systems and how there were used in the design of SlideShare and discuss how SlideShare as an evolving social system handles popularity.

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• Tags
• information architecture
• tags
• user generated content
• wds07

Paul McCarthy - Which open source tools are fuelling today’s leading sites?

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Many of the today’s leading and most innovative websites are now running or developed using open source software and tools. This talk aims to provide an insiders look at the growing array of open source software driving today’s leading websites.

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• Tags
• CMS
• open source
• wds07

Scott Gledhill - Is SEO evil?

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

There can be a feeling in the web development community that “SEO is evil” - Scott Gledhill cuts through the hype to focus on how developing accessible, standards compliant websites is the first step in creating search engine friendly websites – and also talks about what is being done in the industry to make websites more findable, sometimes at the cost of making them less usable.

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• Tags
• seo
• wds07
• web standards

Cameron Adams - The future of web interfaces

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Ajax brought about a host of new possibilities in online interfaces, but where are we going next? Cameron Adams will look at the evolution of dynamic interfaces; interfaces that truly meet the needs of all their users. Through the careful use of Web Standards, client-side scripting, and server-side intelligence, it’s possible to create interfaces that shape, adapt to, and predict a user’s needs.

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• Tags
• design
• interaction design
• interface design
• wds07

Andy Clarke - Think like a mountain

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Once seen as unsophisticated, childish and of low artistic value, comic-book art and culture has inspired artists and designers for generations and are now are often untapped resource for web design inspiration. In this session, designer and author of Transcending CSS, Andy Clarke will examine comic book layout, conventions and colour in the context of making inspirational designs for today’s web.

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• Tags
• design
• visual design
• wds07

Thank you

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 29th, 2007

This is not the end, by any means, but just for the moment, a huge thank you to all who came to the conference, to make it the amazing experience it was. 600 web folk from around the world, saw 30 wonderful speakers, and without doubt the best Web Directions ...

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Scott Berkun - The myths of innovation

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That’s the bet this entertaining keynote takes as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we’ve constructed about how we got here. This talk, loosely based on Scott Berkun’s recent O’Reilly book (May 2007), will help you to recognize the myths, understand their popularity (even if you don’t believe in them), and how to use the truth of innovations past to help you in your work today.

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• Tags
• design
• innovation
• strategy
• wds07

Mike Cannon-Brookes - Organisational wiki adoption

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Wikis are the buzzword-du-jour but practical on the ground experience can be hard to come by for those working within organisations. How are enterprises using them? What’s the best way to get one adopted? What should a wiki not be used for? Pragmatic enterprise wiki adoption lessons and experiences.

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• Tags
• wds07
• wikis

Mark Pesce - Mob Rules

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Sometime shortly after Web Directions South concludes, somebody (probably a somebody in the “developing” world) will become the three billionth mobile phone subscriber. Good for the providers, of course - but the effects of the network on human social organization are far more profound. From the dhows of Kerala to the cities of China to the beaches of Cronulla, we’re all coming into contact with - and learning how to master - the subtle skills of spontaneous self-organization which are the essential fact of life on the network. We can get in front of this spree of self-organization - or get run over by it. Either way, mob rules are the new laws of business, politics, and culture.

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• Tags
• mobile
• social networks
• wds07

Mark Mansour - RedBubble: Building a site for people with big imaginations

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

RedBubble is a social networking platform and marketplace, not to mention a successful homegrown web app. In this session RedBubble’s software architect Mark Mansour will present the challenges the team has faced, and talk through some of the solutions they’ve discovered, during the building and scaling one of Australia’s largest Rails applications. Along the way you’ll learn RedBubble’s tenets for software design, the what’s and how’s of their database and web servers, plus processes that made their team more effective. If you’re a developer dreaming of going out on your own and building a successful online business around a web app, don’t miss this session.

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• Tags
• rails
• wds07
• web apps

Lisa Herrod - Usability: more than skin deep

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Web Usability is far more complex than User Testing and Interaction Design alone. And while interface design is an important consideration, there’s more to a usable site than what’s on the surface. We all know the importance of accessibility and web standards, so let’s take that knowledge one step further and into the realm of usability. In this session Lisa Herrod will redefine the common definition of usability by introducing a greater focus on accessibility and web standards. By taking a more holistic approach you will soon see why usability is more than skin deep.

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• Tags
• accessibility
• design
• interaction design
• interface design
• usability
• wds07
• web standards

Laurel Papworth - Social networks and mobiles

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

It’s not just about email and Twitter: industry analysts agree, virtually every online social network application will develop a mobile feature in the next year or two. From Flickr pre-installed on Nokia phones to an up-to-date map of your buddies locations, mobile devices are ready to come pre-loaded with new friends for you to play with. Before you tune out to listen to music tagged and delivered to your mobile by your social network, or press SEND on a stinging critique of the Web Directions dining hall food to restaurant review mobile sites, why not attend an informative yet fun session about the latest and greatest in GPS and location based services connecting online communities on your mobile? For those who want to focus on the business model not the technology.

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• Tags
• mobile
• social networks
• strategy
• wds07

Justin French - Pushing beyond design

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

You’re a great web designer. You craft beautiful interfaces, you’ve nailed standards based design, and you’re at the top of your game. So now what? Based on real world experiences, this presentation encourages you, the modern web designer, to ignore the title on your business card and to start thinking about your real role in the development process - what you have to offer, what your team really needs, and what you could do to dramatically increase your value on a daily basis.

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• Tags
• career
• design
• wds07

Jonathan Boutelle - Ajax or Flash: what’s right for you?

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

The web is finally moving beyond simple html. How can you make rich web-based user experiences that don’t surprise or aggravate your users? When should you use AJAX, when should you use Flash, and when should you mix the two? What are the opportunities and pitfalls when creating richer web interfaces? In this talk, Jonathan will argue that Flash and AJAX are complementary tools in the web developers’ toolbox, and that building effective web experiences often requires a blending of the two technologies.

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• Tags
• ajax
• flash
• interaction design
• interface design
• wds07

John Allsopp - Trends and predictions in web technology

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Web designers and developers are a very practical bunch, often too busy with today’s challenges and workloads to find time to keep up with developments over the horizon. In this session John Allsopp looks at what trends that are important for web designers and developers and innovators generally - what future versions of browsers have in store, what devices people will be using to access the web, and more. A perfect complement to Bert Bos’s focus on coming web standard technologies.

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• Tags
• mobile
• strategy
• wds07

George Oates - Human traffic

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

If there’s one thing about Web 2.0, it’s that we’re realising that there are actually people using the internet. It’s no longer about Human to Computer interaction, but rather Human to Human. Discover some of the user experience ideas and strategies behind the design of flickr.com, one of the richest Human to Human places on the web today.

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• Tags
• design
• online communities
• user experience
• wds07

Chris Wilson - Moving the web forward

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

In this keynote, Chris Wilson examines the state of the web, some of the problems facing browsers (as platform Architect of the Internet Explorer browser) and standards (as co-chair of the HTML Working Group) and explores what we need to do together to move the web forward.

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• Tags
• wds07
• web standards

Brian Fling - Web 2.0 + Mobile 2.0 = ?

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

Web 2.0 redefined how we look at websites. Mobile 2.0 is redefining how we look at mobile. What happens when you add these two seemingly separate worlds together? Is it the mash-up of all time, or something different altogether? Will it create an unholy union or can the merger of these two principles redefine how we look at information? In this session we will explore what Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 mean and what happens when they come together. We’ll discover what we can learn from both and apply it to the work we create today.

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• Tags
• mobile
• wds07

Bert Bos - A new life for old standards

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

CSS level 2 became a standard in 1998. The last revision of HTML4 dates from 1999. That’s long time ago in Web years, but they aren’t forgotten: after several years of work, CSS is close to a revision and browser support is better than ever. It’s necessary, because CSS needs to grow: vertical text, columns, print support, complex layouts and much more is increasingly demanded. Likewise, there is a big effort to revise HTML. Interest is so high, the W3C is trying a new process, to let more people participate in the editing work. There are also new forms, standards for combining SVG and HTML and new work on the security of forms. Bert’s here to tell us: we haven’t seen the end of the Web page yet.

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• Tags
• coding
• css
• html
• wds07
• web standards

Microsoft Mini presentations in the breaks

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 26th, 2007

If you are here at the conference, check out the Microsoft area in the breaks, where all kinds of folks are doing interesting presentations on technology. They've also got loads of interesting presentations on mapping, mashups, mobile, silverlight, and more. There's a timetable in your laptop bag, so check that ...

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Introducing meetweaver.com

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 26th, 2007

The fantastically talented dynamic duo of Tim Lucas and Cam Adams, builder of last year's web connections, have taken the wraps this morning off meetweaver a social site focussing on participants at conferences. Too hard to describe in a few words, so visit, and take a look - and ...

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WDS07 Kicks off

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 26th, 2007

Web Directions 2007 is underway, kicked off with a fantastic presentation on social media, systems and software by Rashmi Sinha, CEO of Uzanto, who built SlideShare. Much more to come, meantime check out photos on Flickr, blog posts at Technorati, the slides at SlideShare, and elsewhere online. [tags]wds07[/tags]

What’s going on at Web Directions?

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 25th, 2007

Can't make it to Web Directions? Can't get enough anyway? Keep up to date with people's latest photos on Flickr (al those tagged WDS07), with our little app which updates the latest photos every 15 minutes or so. So if you upload photos to Flickr, make sure you tag them ...

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Closing night party news

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 23rd, 2007

If you are coming to Web Directions - great news. If not, you have two days to get your act together, because, Microsoft has just come though as the closing night party sponsor. That means loads of food, loads to drink (in moderation, responsibly, and so ...

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McFarlane Prize shortlist

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 23rd, 2007

After an arduous decision making process, the Jury in this years McFarlane Prize has decided on the shortlist. The shortlisted sites this year are EQASRM by Angela Bonfato Creative and Spoon Media Occupational Psychiatry by August Andrews Must Resign by Michael Koukoullis SitePoint Design Contests by ...

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Mark Pesce in today’s Sydney Morning Herald

• In: speakers
• By: john
• September 23rd, 2007

Web Directions closing keynote speaker, Mark Pesce is interviewed in depth in today's Sydney Morning Herald. So to get a sense of what he'll be talking about, and the ideas he is kicking around, take a look.

SitePoint, Australian based Web tech book company is hiring

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 20th, 2007

Our good friends at SitePoint are looking to fill a number of positions. So if you are looking for an interesting, challenging job in the web tech world, take a look. Do you enjoy tinkering with the latest web technologies? Fancy yourself as a gun coder, a gifted communicator, ...

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Is your website greenhouse friendly?

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• September 20th, 2007

Carbon offsetting and green energy are ideas that have really gained traction over the last 8 months or so. Have you considered the impact your website activities might be having on the environment? Perhaps your website is already hosted on a green server powered by renewable energy or with a hosting company ...

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WDS Speaker interviews

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 20th, 2007

Scott Gledhill, who's speaking on "is SEO evil" at this year's conference is interviewed in builderAU today. A good interview on some key SEO issues for developers and designers. So for a primer on SEO, head over to BuilderAU.

Wifi at Web Directions South

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 19th, 2007

One of the hardest things to get right at a conference is wifi internet access. You'd think it would be easy - afterall, setting up a network at home is simple stuff, right? Trust us, it is hard. Wifi and internet access don't necessarily scale as easily as you'd think. Get ...

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Following Web Directions on Twitter, Flickr and more

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 18th, 2007

The divide between the 'virtual' and 'real' worlds is something we've long tried to address at our conferences. To me, the online world augments our 'real' lives - it's not separate, nor even an extension of our physical lives, they are part and parcel of the same life. And at ...

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Thanks to our sponsor W3C Australia

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 17th, 2007

Since our very first conference, we've been fortunate to have the support of the W3C's Australia Office. Since last year, the office has been hosted by CSIRO, and this year, their support has grown yet again. Not only have W3C Australia ensured that we can entice Bert Bos ...

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Workshops updates - a sell out, and a few places left

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 16th, 2007

Well, it's a week and a day 'til our workshops, and we've just had our first sell out - 'Dr. Nic' William's Beginning Ruby on Rails. Meanwhile, we have just a handful of places left for Andy Clarke's Transcending CSS, so if you want to get a day's insight ...

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A botnet the most powerful supercomputer

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 11th, 2007

Via BuilderAU, our online partner at the conference, the thrilling, fascinating and disturbing story that suggests the most powerful supercomputer on earth (and that means ever) may be a botnet, of PCs infected with the Storm Worm. Distributed processing applications like SETI@home have set a precedent for such massive, parallel ...

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2 weeks to go

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 11th, 2007

Tomorrow it's just two weeks 'til Web Directions South 2007. Already an audience of close to 600 is expected, from all over Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, the US, South America and Europe. The only continent missing in Antarctica. So, first person who signs up from Antarctica gets a great ...

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Geeks on the Grass

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 11th, 2007

All you Sydney web folks, keen to catch up with peers in a relaxed setting? Well, Friday the 21st of September sees the first Geeks on the Grass. One of the reasons we started doing the conferences in the first place is that having started to meet fellow designers and ...

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Designers, start your engines - a Web Directions competition

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 10th, 2007

For those coming to Web Directions, we've got some fun stuff planned. One of those is the use of various screens around the conference to show real time content from the audience (blog posts, photos and more) to see what others are saying, thinking and doing at Web Directions. Right now, ...

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Standards in email clients

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 10th, 2007

I must admit I'm old school when it comes to email - I like it plain and vanilla. I read it and write it vanilla stylee. I use *this* for emphasis. But, that's my taste and choice (OK, so I have been using email, I kid you not, since 1985). ...

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Focus on Aaron Gustafson

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 9th, 2007

With a book on Javascript due out soon, Aaron Gustafson has been one of the quiet achievers of the web industry these last few years. A wonderful educator (his workshop with Andy Clarke at Web Directions North earlier this year was very well attended and received), Aaron has been ...

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Thanks to our sponsors, Glass Onion

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 9th, 2007

I hope it's reasonably well known that one of the principle foundations of Web Directions has always been standards, accessibility, and best practice in web design and development. For close to a decade, Maxine and I have evangelized standards, developed software all about developing standards based web sites, and provided ...

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Thanks to our sponsors, Adobe Systems

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 5th, 2007

At Web Directions, we honestly like to think that we put together as good a conference as you'll experience anywhere in the world. The best speakers, the most relevant content, and on top of that, an enjoyable event, which provides plenty of opportunity to meet and get to know your ...

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Hatch Day on hold

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• September 5th, 2007

Sadly, based on the feedback of many folks, who loved the idea, and wanted to get involved, but who weren't sure that right now they'd be able to commit the time and effort required to really make a go of Hatch Day, we've decided to put it on hold for ...

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For you Flash developers out there - a little gig

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 5th, 2007

Our good friends at REMO are looking for a Flash developer to do some work for them. REMO is seeking a Flash designer to help out with REMOVISION. See attached logo and Item 5 from this week's CustOMER email here: REMO General Store is a Sydney based online retailer with a ...

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Web Directions Mikons - Winners

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• September 4th, 2007

Thanks so much to everyone who got involved in helping design the Mikon set for Web Directions South. It was great that so many people participated, and intriguing to see how we choose to ideentify ourselves. Check them all out. The hard part of course was choosing just 35 to ...

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A small number of exhibitor places left

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 4th, 2007

Quick note to let anyone interested in exhibiting at this year's expo, that we have only a small number of places left. The Expo is very reasonably priced and will have a guaranteed audience of well over 500 web industry professionals. If your products and services are focussed on the web ...

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Thanks to our sponsors, Microsoft Australia

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• September 3rd, 2007

As Web Directions has grown from quite humble beginnings, to a conference that well over 500 people will attend this year, the challenges of continuing to improve the quality of the content, and the overall experience for all our attendees has become significant. This year, a number of sponsors have ...

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Adobe Systems

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• By: john
• September 3rd, 2007

We are very excited and grateful to have Adobe Systems as a significant sponsor, and as sponsor for WebHatch, our day of hacking, collaboration, networking and fun on Saturday 29th September. Thanks to their wonderful support, that day is free, though make sure you ...

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Legal session finalised

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• By: maxine
• September 2nd, 2007

Previous attendees will notice that this year we've broadened the focus of Web Directions a little. In addition to the same number of sessions on web design and development we've always had, we now also have presentations we've put under the banner of "Management and Strategy". I've just slotted in the ...

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Social Events around Web Directions South

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• By: maxine
• September 1st, 2007

During the conference we've organised a reception to be held at the venue on the 27th, and of course there will also be a big party on the closing night, the 28th. But during that week lots of people will be in town from all over Australia so it's a great ...

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