Web Directions - Part 30

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Web Directions South — Discount ends tomorrow!

• By: John
• September 9, 2008

Only one more day to get the $100 discount for Web Directions South. Don’t miss out!

Introducing Aconex, our student scholarship sponsor

• By: John
• September 9, 2008

Since we started Web Directions, we’ve tried to make the conference accessible as possible. Which doesn’t just mean accessible to people with special needs, but also as affordable as possible. One way we do this is by making the conference as reasonably priced as possible. Now, you might say $1050 … Read more »

The history of touch interfaces

• By: John
• September 8, 2008

Via Web Directions speaker Gabriel White’s blog “Small Surfaces”, is a detailed article of the history of touch technology in user interfaces, going back into the dark ages early 1970s, in the Economist magazine’s quarterly Technology Review. Well worth a read ahead of Web Directions, where both … Read more »

Thanks to our significant supporters — Opera

• By: John
• September 8, 2008

All of us in the web industry know about Opera, the browser, and probably have installed it for testing, and maybe even our everyday web use. What many of us don’t really realize is the sheer reach of the Opera platform.

The browser in the Wii is powered by Opera

Hundreds … Read more »

JavaScript libraries roundup

• By: John
• September 8, 2008

Keeping up with developments in the world of JavaScript libraries is increasingly a challenge — with new libraries seemingly springing up by the week. If you are interested in what’s out there beyond “the usual suspects” of JQuery, Prototype and so on, Six Revisions has a round up of … Read more »

Web Directions South 2008 t shirt remixes

• By: Maxine
• September 5, 2008

There’s some cute remixes of the Web Directions T shirt over at Redbubble already. Very droll, all of you :)

You can order “Cloud vs Bird” at Redbubble today … Read more »

Discount period extended ’til next Wednesday

• By: John
• September 5, 2008

In what appears to have become something of a tradition, we’ve extended the discount period, which was to end tonight, until next Wednesday. So, if you still need to make arrangements, bribe the boss and so on, you have a few more days.

This year looks set to be even better … Read more »

Great backchannel stories of our time

• By: Maxine
• September 5, 2008

John wrote here yesterday about Wifi availability at the conference venue this year. The good news is, if all goes according to plan, we should be swimming in the network, which is great.

There’s been … Read more »

Many thanks to our Key Sponsor, Adobe

• By: John
• September 5, 2008

Last year, Adobe became involved with Web Directions, as a key supporter. For those of your who’d been to previous conferences, I hope you felt that across the board, the quality of the conference had improved — from the venue, to the number of sessions and tracks, to the … Read more »

Cappuccino arrives

• By: John
• September 5, 2008

I’m more of a latté kind of guy (well, not really), but today sees the arrival of the long anticipated Cappucino framework, from 280 North, makers of the beautiful web based presentation application (think Keynote for the Web) 280 Slides.

280 Slides particularly excited me as a web app, … Read more »

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