Web Directions - Part 28

Each year thousands of web professionals come together at Web Directions conferences in Australia, the US, the UK and Japan to learn, connect and share their passion. Experience the web with us.

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McFarlane Prize winners for 2008

• By: John
• September 29, 2008

The winner of the McFarlane Prize, 2008, is Pro Plaster Products by Propeller Global. Billy Hughes at War for the Old Parliament House, by IceLab was highly commended by the judges. Congratulations to the team at Propeller, at IceLab, and all the finaists, and a … Read more »

WDS08 got you hankering for a change?

• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2008

Monday morning after a week like the last one can be heavy going no? If things seem just a little pedestrian as you look around the office this morning, and contemplate what you have to do this week, you do have options you know. Take a break round 11 and … Read more »

Follow us on Flickr, Twitter, teh blogs and YouTube

• By: John
• September 26, 2008

It’s quiet on the blog, but Twitter, Flickr, the blogs and YouTube are are alive with comments, photos, video and more from the conference.

Follow along if you couldn’t come!

A silver lining in the global financial market fallout?

• By: John
• September 23, 2008

I’m an optimist — it’s in my nature. Not a blithe one, but definitely my instinct is to not see the worst in a situation. Clearly so to is Douglas Rushkoff, author, public intellectual, and all round big thinker.

Douglas has a long essay on the implications of the current … Read more »

The McFarlane Prize Shortlist for 2008

• By: John
• September 20, 2008

The Jury for the prize has now drawn up the shortlist for this year’s prize. The standard of this year’s entries was without doubt the best yet, demonstrating that each year, the quality of Australia’s web industry’s output improves considerably. I’m sure Nigel would have been most pleased with that.

This … Read more »

Web Directions and web application, social networks, and so on

• By: John
• September 20, 2008

With a week to go, it’s time to start firing up your social networks, and other online tools in preparation for the conference.

If you take photos, and use Flickr, please upload them with the tag wds08 (or search for photos tagged wds08 to see what others are seeing).

If you … Read more »

Coming to Web Directions? Win a Macbook Air courtesy of Campaign Monitor

• By: John
• September 19, 2008

The boys from Campaign monitor always make a splash at Web Directions, this year going one better than an iMac, by giving away a Macbook Air during the conference. And they’ve teamed up with a number of speakers to reward you for paying attention — check out their blog … Read more »

Web Directions speaker Jina Bolton — the SitePoint Sexy Stylesheets interview

• By: John
• September 19, 2008

Jina Bolton, one of the excellent international speakers we have lined up for Web Directions next week features in a detailed interview in SitePoint — so to get a sense of what she has in store for her presentation, head over to SitePoint for her chat with Matt … Read more »

500th Attendee free

• By: John
• September 17, 2008

We are fast coming up on a milestone that when we started this crazy web directions thing a few years ago, if you’d told me we’d be anywhere near, I would have doubted your sanity. Last year we went just past 500 attendees, and we are again nearing that pretty … Read more »

Session Spotlight — HTML5 with Michael ™ Smith

• By: John
• September 17, 2008

Keeping abreast with browser and standards developments, latest scripting and styling techniques, let alone next generation developments like HTML5 is a full time job. Since most of us have full time jobs, what we at Web Directions try to do is a lot of that job for you — by … Read more »

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