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Adobe Systems

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 ... Read more »

Legal session finalised

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 ... Read more »

Social Events around Web Directions South

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 ... Read more »

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. The Australian W3C Office (W3C-Aus) is the national contact point for W3C activities in Australia.We are very ... Read more »

Microsoft

We are very grateful to have Microsoft as a key supporter for Web Directions South. Through this generous support Microsoft enables us to provide an even better conference for our attendees. Look out for Microsoft's presence at our Expo, where they'll be ... Read more »

Glass Onion

Long before it was accepted best practice, Glass Onion focussed on web standards and accessibility as key philosophies in their projects. It means a great deal to us that Glass Onion recognises the importance Web Directions plays in fostering these philosophies in our industry through their role as a ... Read more »

McFarlane Prize nominations close tonight at midnight AEST

With the number, and just by glancing at the nominations as they come in, the breadth (for want of a better word) of the sites being submitted for this years McFarlane Prize considerably greater than last year, this years Prize is shaping up as a very worthy follow up ... Read more »

Discount Pricing and McFarlane Prize deadline

Just a quick reminder about two deadlines happening this Friday at midnight:Discount pricing for Web Directions South endingIf you work in the web industry, you've got until Friday at midnight to get tickets to the event of the year here in Sydney for just $895.Remember too - it's ok to ... Read more »

Full programme now online

Quick note to let you know that the full, (highly microformatted) conference programme is now online (and downloadable for any application which supports hCalendar/iCalendar through the magic of microformats and Brian Suda's X2V).With three tracks to choose from, you'll have a month to work out what you ... Read more »

Sessions

DesignJonathan Boutelle – AJAX or Flash: what's right for you? Andy Clarke – Think like a mountain Stephen Cox – Making useful things no one knew they needed: building ethnography into the design process Brian Fling – Web 2.0 + Mobile 2.0 = ... Read more »

Design a Mikon and have it included in the Web Directions Mikons set

Design a Mikon and have it included in the Web Directions Mikons setA conference is as much about the new people you meet as the ideas and techniques you get to see first hand. That's why you have a name badge that lets others quickly identify what your name is ... Read more »

Diversity initiatives

First up a disclosure - very soon we'll be announcing that Microsoft is a sponsor and exhibitor of Web Directions South, and they were also a sponsor at Web Directions NorthBuilderAU is running a story I just saw on Microsoft Australia's new Diversity Council, an initiative to ensure diversity ... Read more »

Mikons: who ARE you?

Design a Mikon and have it included in the Web Directions Mikons set - and get a free t shirt!A conference is as much about the new people you meet as the ideas and techniques you get to see first hand. That's why you have a name ... Read more »

Announcing Hatch Day 2007

On the day after Web Directions South this year, Saturday September 29, there's going to be a very special event which isfree open to anyone who wants to participate - but you do need to registerHatch Day is a day of web creativity and idea sharing that falls ... Read more »

Reminder: McFarlane Prize — nominations close August 31

A quick reminder that the McFarlane Prize nominations close at the end of the month.The Prize is open to any Australian web design and development teams or individuals. The only other requirement is that the site must have been launched or sigificantly updated between August 1 2006 and July ... Read more »

Our online partner C|Net Builder

BuilderAU is the Australian edition of C|Net's builder site, a rich source of developer news, information, training and resources, for the web, and a wide variety of technologies.Builder.au has a strong commitment to local content, industry news, video interviews and more, and we are really proud ... Read more »

New keynote speaker — Chris Wilson

We are really excited to announce our final keynote speaker for Web Directions South 2007 - Chris Wilson. Chris, currently the co-chair of the W3C's HTML working group, and Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer browser has a long and extraordinary career with the web. He was a developer ... Read more »

Web Directions Student Discounts

Are you a full time student? Do you know any full time students? If you are, or if you do, then hopefully you'll be interested in our student discounts for Web Directions and for the W3C's Special interest group day, running in conjunction with our workshops.Places at the SIG ... Read more »

Expo and Sponsorships

What began as a labour of love about 4 years ago, has clearly grown into a significant event in the web industry, both locally, and indeed right round the world, thanks in very large part to you, the people who have supported us by coming along to the conferences and ... Read more »

Web Trivia Night — places still open

They've been filling fast, but there are still places available at the first Sydney Web Trivia Night on August 9.Brought to you by News Digital Media and Web Directions, come along to this free night of trivia where you'll definitely be in with a chance, as all the questions ... Read more »

Scott Berkun — The Myths of Innovation

And yet another new speaker announced today. Scott Berkun will now be presenting the opening keynote on the morning of the second day of the conference this year.Scott comes from a project management background, working for Microsoft from 1994 to 2003. Since then he's started his own consulting ... Read more »

Geek Trivia Night

Know who invented the Internet? Any ideas what WWW stands for? Clued up on who the first blogger was?If so, keep August 9th free, as News Digital Media and Web Directions are hosting a night of networking for fun and profit on August 9 at the Vault ... Read more »

Social media and government 2.0 at Web Directions South this year

A while back I was browsing George Oates' blog when I came across a reference to a pioneering project happening right here in Australia at the Powerhouse Museum, where, to put it briefly, the collection has been opened to public contribution through tagging. The project, which has been widely ... Read more »

Web Directions Speakers — Mark Pesce

Last year's conference closed with what may just become something of a tradition, a keynote from Mark Pesce. Mark is one of the things the web seems to foster so well, a genuine polymath, whose "blog" hyperpeople (I hesitate to call it that because its really a collection of ... Read more »

New addition to program — Javascript and other coding for good or evil

We're very pleased to announce an addition to our already full program for Web Directions South 2007 - Andrew Downie and Grant Focas from the DET's Centre for Learning Innovation will now be presenting a session on coding, and in particular the use of Javascript, for accessibility, in ... Read more »

WA Web Awards — finalists announced

The finalists for the third WA Web Awards have just been announced. Last year, I was honoured to be asked to be one of the Judges, while this year, Maxine is one of the judges. We recently discussed just how high a standard across the board the entrants typically ... Read more »

Writing for the Web

Organisations large and small are beginning to realise that writing for the Web is a specific challenge. Vision Australia is running a writing for the Web workshop in Perth toward the end of August, as well as a We Accessibility workshop. We've had VA speakers at Web Directions before (and ... Read more »

Speakers in the news — Scott Gledhill

A new local speaker for 2007 is Scott Gledhill, from News Interactive. Well, Scott's a local now, though hails from near Vancouver in Canada. Scott's newsigh blog, http://standardzilla.com/ provides no nonsense opinion and idea on using standards in a corporate context, and he's just had a feature article published ... Read more »

McFarlane Prize 2007 — nominations now open

Nominations have just opened for the McFarlane Prize for 2007. This prize for excellence in Australian web design will be awarded to an Australian designer or team for a site launched or significantly upgraded between August 1 2006 and July 31 2007.The winner of the prize will be announced ... Read more »

New workshop for September 25 — Beginning Ruby on Rails

Maintaining what has become a tradition, we have a late addition to the Web Directions South Workshop program for this year: Dr Nic Williams will be hosting Beginning Ruby on Rails on Tuesday September 25.Anyone involved with the web would be aware of the phenomenal growth in popularity over ... Read more »

Danah Boyd in Australia

If you have any interest at all in the future of online social networking, and in particular its implications for the education sector, don't miss this upcoming Education.AU seminar:Danah Boyd: Generation MySpace - Social networking and its impact on students and educationDanah, an internationally recognised authority on the way ... Read more »

Early bird finishes tomorrow at midnight, Andy Clarke selling fast

A quick final reminder that to get $200 off the full ticket price of Web Directions, (that makes it only $795 including GST) you'll have to register by tomorrow night at midnight. You can pay later, but that is the final chance to get the early bird discount.Registrations have been ... Read more »

Web Directions speakers in the news — Gian Sampson-​​Wild

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 ... Read more »

Early bird discount ending very soon

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 - ... Read more »

Community

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 ... Read more »

Web Directions speakers in the news — Angela Beesley

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 ... Read more »

Early Bird ends June 30 (tomorrow week)

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. ... Read more »

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

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 ... Read more »

Aussie Startup “Remember the Milk” featured in Slate

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 ... Read more »

iPhone/​Safari is the Mosaic of the Mobile Web

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 ... Read more »

“Getting” Web 2.0

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 ... Read more »

Web Directions — it’s not just for geeks

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 ... Read more »

Web Directions Speakers in profile — Adrian Holovaty

I'm not quite sure when I first heard of Adrian Holovaty, but I'd long heard of Chicago Crime, one of the very first "mashups", which Adrian developed. With that kind of achievement, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Adrian was a computer scientist, but in fact, his background ... Read more »

Australian Web Industry events — May June 2007

Over the coming few weeks there's a tonne of stuff happening of interest to Australian web professionals. If you've got an event, or know of one I've missed, do let us know.First up, Microsoft is running a local version of their MIX conference, ReMIX which has strong web ... Read more »

Web Directions on the internets

Anyone who has been to one of our conferences will probably know we really try to integrate the online and offline, though blogging, flickr photos, t-shirts and so on. In the last year or so, there has been an explosion in the use of services like Upcoming, and social networking ... Read more »

How we plan our program

Web Directions South 2007 is the fifth conference that Maxine and I have been involved with. In the 4 years or so since we started down this path, a lot has changed in the web world. Things which were very much at the pointy end of the profession, like standards, ... Read more »

WDS07 — Now open for business

OK people, the wait is over. Come on in, have a look around, and check out the program and speakers we've lined up for Web Directions South 2007. With more than 30 leading experts, including a dozen international stars of the web industry, across three tracks, Web Directions South ... Read more »

Web 2.0 downunder

As we put the finishing touches on the launch of Web Directions South 2007 due in a couple of days (I think you'll be very excited withat what's on offer), a couple of things over at Fairfax newspapers that will hopefully be of interest to the Web Directions community.Brad Howarth, ... Read more »

Terms and conditions

Subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement, Web Directions Conference will allow you to attend the conference Web Directions 06 ("the conference") and/or associated workshops ("the workshops").FeesAll fees become payable at the time the booking for the conference or workshops is made. If this fee remains unpaid at ... Read more »

Contact us

By emailGot something on your mind? The very best way to contact us is via email. We can deal with almost all requests almost straight away if you contact us in this way.By postIf you need to send us something, our postal address isWeb Directions Conference Pty Ltd Unit ... Read more »

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