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Indi Young — Innovation With Mental Models

A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008. In his recent book, The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun argues that innovation does not happen in a flash of inspiration. Instead, it takes years of research to deeply understand a ... Read more »

Andre Charland & Walter Smith – Developing With Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight

A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.Crash Course in Adobe AIR There comes a time when web developers need to reach beyond the browser to allow users to go offline, use local files or get rid of ... Read more »

John Allsopp & Dave Shea – Where’s Your Web At? Designing for the Web Beyond the Desktop

A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008. Since the advent of personal computing, we’ve been tied to one place — typically sitting at a desk, with a keyboard ... Read more »

Boris Mann — The 3 stages of dynamic systems

A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.Content management systems have all but replaced the former art of publishing static HTML pages. From letting clients edit and add content, to content like calendars and forums that defy the ... Read more »

Free Sydney Wireless

On the frontpage of the Sydney Morning Herald (and in today's Next tech liftout in the dead tree edition) right now you'll find a story on Free Sydney Wireless, a grass roots effort to create a bottom-up mesh wifi network in Sydney. Now, not only is this ... Read more »

Validation: coming soon to a web site near you

Ben Buchanan got in touch a few weeks back, excited to let me know that after a long struggle over at News Digital Media, they'd got the Aus IT home page to validate. Other people over at NDM have written in the past about the long march ... Read more »

Looking for shared office space in Sydney?

After too many years trapped inside the four walls of my own home, I'm bustin' loose later this month and moving Web Directions Global HQ to Surry Hills, into what I think will be some very sweet office space - check the photo here.The good news is that for ... Read more »

2008

Well, 2008 for Web Directions is about to kick off with version 2.0 (sorry, couldn't resist) of Web Directions North in Vancouver next week. Great to see a few Aussie folks heading over - hopefully it's not just the bumper season at Whistler?But all those in the Southern Hemisphere, fear ... Read more »

Jared Spool — The Dawning of the Age of Experience

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007. Experience Design is no longer a nice-to-have luxury of a few organizations with tons of money and exceptional visionary management. It’s become commonplace for organizations that build products and web sites. Experience Design is a centerpiece of boardroom discussions ... Read more »

Kaitlin Sherwood & Steffen Meschkat — The Business and Technology of Mashups

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007.Mashups are the hottest web development topic today. Hear about the front-end, back-end, and business issues of mashups with these two experts who know more about them than just about anyone. Kaitlin Sherwood: Overview of Maps Mashup Technologies In the past ... Read more »

Veerle Pieters & Dave Shea — Finding Creativity in the Design Process

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007. Independent designers don’t have the luxury of specialized roles — they wear multiple hats. Those working on the web today are expected to speak the language of programmers and other technical types, on top of building valid and well-coded web sites ... Read more »

George Oates and Paul Hammond — Web Apps: Developer to Designer

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007. Web apps are an intimate marriage of back-end systems and client-side interaction, but it takes two very different skill sets to build robust scalable application platforms and create smooth user interfaces that work in multiple browsers. In this session, George ... Read more »

Craig Saila & Adrian Holovaty — Old Media, New Technology

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007. Web based distribution is changing the nature of established authorities like newsprint and television. As traditional media declines, the relevance of their online brands continues to grow in both revenue and traffic. All of this is leading to a radical ... Read more »

Kelly Goto — Designing for Lifestyle

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007. Interaction design is no longer limited to the web. The concept of user experience is being redefined as multiple delivery methods of social and business interaction merge into our lifestyles. As design migrates from the web to mobile devices ... Read more »

Joe Clark — Accessibility in the Design Process

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007. When people talk about incorporating accessibility into the design process, they usually refer to selecting colours that correspond to somebody else's 'accessible' contrast ratio or using a large enough font size. Trivial, really. But the design process — observation, ideation, evaluation, refinement, ... Read more »

John Allsopp and Dan Cederholm — Microformats: More than Just Promise

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007. Microformats are much more than just a promising technology or passing fad — hear these three experts cover the whys and the hows of designing and developing with microformats. Hear microformats founder and custodian Tantek Çelik paint on the broad canvas, talking ... Read more »

Aaron Gustafson & Andy Clarke — Transcendent Design with Javascript and CSS

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007. Traditionally, CSS has been the domain of designers while JavaScript was for programmers, but these technologies can and should work together to improve your visitors’ experiences. After all, you can do amazing things with CSS, but when you start ... Read more »

Jeremy Keith & Derek Featherstone — Web Apps — Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007. Where can you find Ajax enlightenment? At the mystical point where a kick-ass application connects perfectly with the Flow of the best user experiences. Let Masters Jeremy and Derek guide you there. You seek to infuse your work, whether an ... Read more »

Cameron Moll & Tantek Çelik — Design and Coding at the Cutting Edge

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007. Hear microformats founder and custodian Tantek Çelik paint on the broad canvas, talking about motivations, use cases, examples, and benefits. Cameron Moll says the web is a volatile medium that changes endlessly, but one thing remains constant: a demand for ... Read more »

Molly E. Holzschlag — WSI:Vancouver — Crimes Against Web Standards

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007. Web standards investigators: Get your crime scene gear on and help Molly dig up the dirt on crimes committed against web standards. Molly will demonstrate code samples from her own felonious work dating back to 1993, as well as ... Read more »

Web Directions Merchandise

Can't make it to Web Directions North? Heading there, but want to take a little reminder with you? We'll, now you can get a range of clothing, mugs, mousepads and other gear featuring either the fantastic Happy Webbies bag design for WDN08, or Dave Shea's fantastic Web Direction ... Read more »

Mark Pesce on Stephen Conroy’s proposed Australian net censorship

We were pretty disappointed over these parts to see that an early initiative of the new Australian Labor government was a continuation of the anti-technology, muddle headed thinking of the little lamented former Liberal government. The proposed legislation would require ISPs to block a black list of sites prepared by ... Read more »

Scott Berkun Podcast and slides now available

The Myths of Innovation, presented by Scott Berkun was one of the most intriguing and challenging presentations of Web Directions South 2007. It's just a shame a few people missed it as it was on first thing on the Friday morning.The good news is that the MP3 Scott's thought provoking ... Read more »

Ten things that will change your future

No, not actually keeping your resolutions (though that might help), but the Sydney Morning Herald begins the year with a look forward to Ten things that will change your future. Well worth a glance, and featuring some quotes from and coverage of Web Directions speakers Adrian Holovaty, Mark Pesce, ... Read more »

Web Directions North — extended early bird ends Friday

To give folks a little more time to organize at this holiday time of the year, we've extended the early bird pricing (only $CDN795) for Web Direction North until this Friday only, December 7th at midnight (just before the 8th starts to be absolutely clear).

Email Standards Project launches

The Email Standards Project is a great advocacy and support initiative from the Campaign Monitor crew. Launched today, it aims to work with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.It really is hard to believe that it's been 10 ... Read more »

New blog at the Powerhouse Museum

Just launched is a new blog at Australia's own Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day, showcasing some of the incredible photography created on a day by day basis by the museum's photographers. Here you will see photography that goes far beyond that which simply documents museum's collection, or ... Read more »

Web Directions in Desktop Magazine

During Web Directions South, Managing Editor of SitePoint, and long time Web Directions supporter Matt Magain interviews me about the conference, its goals, and so on, for Desktop Magazine. If you don't have access to the magazine (issue 234!) then you can read it online now, thanks to ... Read more »

The Future of Email Design

Yeah look, I can be irked by an HTML email as much as the next person, but step outside the rarefied atmosphere we all live and breathe for a moment and talk to some friends who work in just about any other sector and you'll understand why they just aren't ... Read more »

Why wikipedia does not run ads

I'm kind of guessing that all of you who have looked up anything on Wikipedia in the last 24hrs will have seen the link to Why Wikipedia Does Not Run Ads. Check it out if not.It has some really strong arguments about how destructive the injection of cash could ... Read more »

Ghost Town — another reason to check out Perth’s ByteMe! festival

Web Directions attendee Kate Raynes-Goldie has started a pervasive gaming company over in Perth - Giant Dice. Their first Perth venture, a mobile locative game called Ghost Town, will be held from December 2-9, as part of the ByteMe! Festival of digital content.Mobile locative games are an ... Read more »

Relive Mark Pesce’s Mob Rules at Youtube

Mark Pesce's closing keynote, Mob Rules, was definitely one of the high points of Web Directions South this year. Most of you have probably had a look at the transcript, and maybe even listened to the MP3. But what's really great is that Mark has gone to the ... Read more »

First Slidecast available

I'd say you've been following the podcasts of the presentations from Web Directions South as they come onstream, and we've also gathered together a lot of the slides into the resources site.But something new and supercool has just come online: Scott Gledhill has gone the extra mile and ... Read more »

Make the world a better place, one micropayment at the time

Got wind of a really cool Aussie project today: The Footprints Network.This is a great little system to easily funnel micropayments from any online store's customers to genuinely needy organisations the world over.There's an approval process to join the network, but then you get an API that you can ... Read more »

Web Directions Speakers in the New: Mike Cannon-​​Brookes

Co-founder of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, who spoke at WDS07, [slides online now, presentation podcast to come] this week announced that Atlassian is partnering with Microsoft to enable Atlassian's enterprise wiki confluence to be integrated with Microsoft's SharePoint. More details including an interview with fellow antipodean Richard McManus at ... Read more »

Web Directions at Builder AU

The fine folks at Builder AU, CNET's great local developer site, have a great wrap up of Web Directions, including several video interviews with speakers Rashmi Sinha, Adrian Holovaty, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Chris Wilson, as well as in depth interviews with Andy Clarke, Scott Gledhill, Rob Manson and ... Read more »

Web Directions Wrap up — the podcasts commence

With 28 presentations by over 30 presenters, getting the podcasts organized this year has been quite a task. There's permissions to get from every author, CDs to rip and downsample (unless you want to download 60MB per presentation), the podcast RSS to create, site changes to make, and more.This year, ... Read more »

Come to Web Directions Free, from anywhere in the world!

This year some lucky person will get to go to Web Directions North for free, from anywhere in the world. Join our affiliates program and it could be you.Here's how it works. Get in touch with us and we'll set you up as an affiliate. Use your affiliate link, ... Read more »

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your mashups

Via Builder AU, we learn that the Australian Bureau of Statistics is planning to open up it's data for mashups.As part of an ongoing plan to make more of its data available in a variety of formats, the ABS is working to enable users to generate their own tables ... Read more »

Web Directions North is launched

Last year was a blast, so this year we are doing it all again, in Vancouver from January 28 to February 2nd. Along with web legends Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone, we've put together a programme of workshops and speakers featuring as always some of the leading web experts ... Read more »

Web Directions Wrap up — the blogosphere

Over at Technorati you'll find about 1000 in bound links to Web Directions - so we aren't quite Engadget, but I think that's pretty cool. Here's some of the posts I found with wrapups, comments, suggestions and thoughts that you might be interested in. There are plenty more ... Read more »

Powerhouse Museum — Jobs

Folksonomies, mashups, data visualisation, UCD, usability, experimentation?One of the speakers from Web Directions South this year, Sebastian Chan from the Powerhouse Museum, just got in touch this morning to say his team is looking to fill a couple of developer roles.Sebastian's presentation - Social Media and Government 2.0 - ... Read more »

Scott Buchanan and Ben Maguire

Wig meets Web (2.0): harnessing the law to commercialise and protect your IPMP3 of presentation - to come Presentation slides - to come Session description About Scott Buchanan and Ben MaguireSession description Innovation and development in web 2.0 moves ever faster, the law as slow as always. So how can you ... Read more »

Adrian Holovaty interview at SitePoint

SitePoint continues their coverage of Web Directions South with a just posted interview with Adrian Holovaty. I happen to think Adrian is one of the most influential people on the web, with major involvement in Django, Mashups, GreaseMonkey, online journalism, and more.We'll have the podcast of his presentation ... Read more »

Making Links — Special Offer for Web Directions delegates

Making Links 2007 is one of Australiaís leading forums for workers and activists in the not-for-profit sector to share skills and information relating to website development, online campaigning, online social networking and community building, and other ICT issues. The conference is in Sydney, October 30th - 31stThis year the ... Read more »

BuilderAU Web Directions features

Builder AU, the local edition of CNET Networks Australia site for developers was our online partner for the conference, and were there in force covering Web Directions. The fruit of their efforts is now coming online, including video interviews with speakers (currently there are interviews with Adrian Holovaty and ... Read more »

Speaker Interviews at SitePoint

At Web Directions Kevin Yank from SitePoint spoke with some of our speakers, and there are now a couple of these audio interviews online.First up, there's an interview with Andy Clarke, and Cameron Adams, two of our most popular speakers (people were standing in the hallway outside the room ... Read more »

iPod Touch winner from SitePoint

Matt Magain from SitePoint got in touch to let me know the winner of the iPod Touch in their recent "Why do you love the Web" competition .Congratulations to Teresa Ko, and I know you'll love you iPod too - I sure do!

More Jobs — Developer/​Designer at Glass Onion

Great supporters of Web Directions, and strong proponents of standards based design, Glass Onion, are looking for a Web Designer/Developer.Web DesignerExcellent written and communications skillsAble to work Photoshop, Illustrator and FlashKnowledge of standards-based HTML and CSS codingGlass Onion is a Sydney based web design, development, intranet, extranet, search and ... Read more »

Ben Winter-​​Giles — Managing agile projects within large organisations

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 ... Read more »

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