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August de los Reyes , principal experience architect for Surface, our final keynote presenter for 2008

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• By: john
• August 20th, 2008

Unless you have been asleep for the last 2 years or so, then you'll almost certainly have heard of two pieces of technology. The iPhone is one of course, but also getting people everywhere excited has been Surface, the table top based, muti-user, multi-touch device from Microsoft. Right now, probably ...

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JavaScript/ECMAScript - the current state of standards development

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• By: john
• August 20th, 2008

Javascript is increasingly playing an important role for all web developers and designers, and obviously at Web Directions as well. Our favourite Ajax focussed blog, Ajaxian, has a post today detailing the current state of pay when it comes to the next generation of the JavaScript standard, ECMAScript 3.1/4. ...

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ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition

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• By: maxine
• August 19th, 2008

Got a great idea for a video game? I know I do. You get these two sticks which you can move vertically up and down the screen to hit a square ball back and forth. As the ball hits the stick, it makes a really cool, lifelike beeping sound.....(if you're ...

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What are the local internet gurus excited about?

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 19th, 2008

If you happened upon a copy of yesterday's Icon in the Sydney Morning Herald you may have noticed "Dopple Your Fun" - where five local internet gurus - Cheryl Lead, Virginia Murdoch, John Allsopp, Lachlan Hardy and Tim Lucas were asked by the Herald's Nick Galvan ...

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Interview with Mark Pesce at The Alcove

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• By: maxine
• August 18th, 2008

Local web visionary Mark Pesce has become a fixture as our closing keynote at Web Directions South. He spoke a couple of months back at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, where he was also interviewed on The Alcove. Here's the interview in full. Mark speaks at ...

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Get a free t shirt from our supporter molt:n

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 18th, 2008

Words? Code? Design? Which are you? And do you want a free t-shirt so you can let the world know? It’s easy to get your hands on one - all you need to do is blog or Flickr something about Web Directions and tag it 'moltnWD'. Wear your passion at ...

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The return of font embedding to the web?

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 15th, 2008

Sadly, quite a bit of what I wrote in this article is based on out of date information, and on my own testing that had a fatal flaw. I've left the article as it is, and added corrections inline Most web designers and developers will be familiar with Image Replacement techniques, ...

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New Workshop - Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp

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• By: john
• August 14th, 2008

Web Directions started out with very much a designer and developer focus. But, based on feedback, and our general observations about the industry, we recognised that there was a need for a wider focus on the web - not just the practicalities of implementation, but the strategic and business side ...

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On cue - web browsing phone debt fears newstories

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• By: john
• August 14th, 2008

Well, it didn't take long for, as we predicted, the first reports of "unexpectedly high debt from bills for excess data usage" for users of "fast web-browsing phones, such as the new Apple iPhone" (Sydney Morning Herald.) I'm not sure whether this affects a lot of people, or only a ...

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Web Directions South 2008 Schedule Published

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• By: maxine
• August 13th, 2008

Let the decision making begin: Developing for iPhone or Strategies for Social Media Engagement, Creating Sexy Style Sheets or Choosing the Right Web App Framework. Because the official schedule for Web Directions South 2008 has now been set in stone and handed down. I've laboured over ...

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