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Web Directions South 09 Resources – many more now online

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• October 23, 2009

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Guy in preparing all the pages and producing all the podcasts, we now have a whole raft of the presentations from WDS09 now available online, so, if you’re looking to catch something you missed because you you went to another track, or you couldn’t … Read more »

Got your Google Wave invite? Scratching your head?

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• October 19, 2009

It looks like all the Google Wave invites for WDS09 attendees, courtesy of Stephanie and Cameron (thanks again guys!) went out over the weekend.

If you’re scratching your head as to what to do next though, and you’re in Sydney, why don’t you come along on Tuesday the 20th to the … Read more »

First batch of WDS09 resources now available

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• October 15, 2009

You wouldn’t believe how many things there are to do in the week after an event - I actually feel like I have been busier this week than I was in the week leading up to the conference. But one of the big things we have been treating as an … Read more »

Trip to Japan for Web Directions East – winner announced!

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• October 14, 2009

A couple of months back we announced that we were going to be giving away a ticket to Web Directions East to one lucky attendee of Web Directions South.

Well, that lucky attendee turned out to be Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald, who has already let us know that he is very excited to … Read more »

Web Directions – The Soundtrack

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• October 13, 2009

I’ve got a few enquiries here about the music we played during the conference, so I thought I should really give credit where it is due and write up something comprehensive.

Between sessions in the rooms we played XX by The XX - which came recommended by Luke … Read more »

GovHack, Canberra Oct 30 and 31 – produced by Web Directions

• In: Blog
• By: John
• October 12, 2009

On Friday afternoon at Web Directions South we were excited and honoured to be able to announce GovHack, an event we’ll be producing in canberra at the end of the month. GovHack is an initiative of the Government 2.0 TaskForce, in support of MashupAustralia, a competition encouraging … Read more »

Tech23 startup event in Sydney

• In: Blog
• By: John
• October 12, 2009

Hot on the heels of our amazingly well received Atlassian Startup Space at Web Directions South, Tech23 is a full day startup focussed event in Sydney on October 27.

If you are a startup, an investor, or someone thinking about starting up - get along, learn and network. … Read more »

Web Directions South 09 – Our best ever

• In: Blog
• By: John
• October 12, 2009

Web Directions South is over for another year, and judging by the comments in person, in blogs, via email and of course via twitter, it would seem many think it is the best to date, something we’d have to agree with. Sometimes the stars seem to align - extraordinary presentations … Read more »

99designs Are Hiring A Front-end Ninja!

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• October 9, 2009

99designs, the sister company of our media partners, SitePoint, are looking to hire a full-time designer from their Melbourne office. In their words, they’re after a “front-end ninja” with talents in graphic/interface design, usability, accessibility and creating standards-based HTML/CSS.

If this sounds like you and you’re in Melbourne (or prepared to … Read more »

Special event for Web Week – go deep in the bowels of a leading data centre

• In: Blog
• By: John
• October 1, 2009

Thanks to our sponsors Anchor Hosting, and Australia’s largest carrier neutral data centre, Global Switch, we’ll be running two, limited places 1 hour tours of their data centre facilities, in Tuesday the 6th and Wednesday the 7th of October at 345pm (and finishing up at the … Read more »

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