The fantastically talented dynamic duo of Tim Lucas and Cam Adams, builder of last year’s web connections, have taken the wraps this morning off meetweaver a social site focussing on participants at conferences. Too hard to describe in a few words, so visit, and take a look – and join up to contribute your blog […]
Web Directions 2007 is underway, kicked off with a fantastic presentation on social media, systems and software by Rashmi Sinha, CEO of Uzanto, who built SlideShare. Much more to come, meantime check out photos on Flickr, blog posts at Technorati, the slides at SlideShare, and elsewhere online. [tags]wds07[/tags]
Can’t make it to Web Directions? Can’t get enough anyway? Keep up to date with people’s latest photos on Flickr (al those tagged WDS07), with our little app which updates the latest photos every 15 minutes or so. So if you upload photos to Flickr, make sure you tag them wds07
If you are coming to Web Directions – great news. If not, you have two days to get your act together, because, Microsoft has just come though as the closing night party sponsor. That means loads of food, loads to drink (in moderation, responsibly, and so forth of course) and the return of the web/dj […]
After an arduous decision making process, the Jury in this years McFarlane Prize has decided on the shortlist. The shortlisted sites this year are EQASRM by Angela Bonfato Creative and Spoon Media Occupational Psychiatry by August Andrews Must Resign by Michael Koukoullis SitePoint Design Contests by SitePoint Solution Central by Propeller Graphic Design & Marketing […]
Web Directions closing keynote speaker, Mark Pesce is interviewed in depth in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. So to get a sense of what he’ll be talking about, and the ideas he is kicking around, take a look.
Our good friends at SitePoint are looking to fill a number of positions. So if you are looking for an interesting, challenging job in the web tech world, take a look. Do you enjoy tinkering with the latest web technologies? Fancy yourself as a gun coder, a gifted communicator, or an accomplished team leader? SitePoint […]
Carbon offsetting and green energy are ideas that have really gained traction over the last 8 months or so. Have you considered the impact your website activities might be having on the environment? Perhaps your website is already hosted on a green server powered by renewable energy or with a hosting company that has offset […]
Scott Gledhill, who’s speaking on “is SEO evil” at this year’s conference is interviewed in builderAU today. A good interview on some key SEO issues for developers and designers. So for a primer on SEO, head over to BuilderAU.
One of the hardest things to get right at a conference is wifi internet access. You’d think it would be easy – afterall, setting up a network at home is simple stuff, right? Trust us, it is hard. Wifi and internet access don’t necessarily scale as easily as you’d think. Get 600 web folks in […]
The divide between the ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds is something we’ve long tried to address at our conferences. To me, the online world augments our ‘real’ lives – it’s not separate, nor even an extension of our physical lives, they are part and parcel of the same life. And at conferences, they are closer than […]
Since our very first conference, we’ve been fortunate to have the support of the W3C’s Australia Office. Since last year, the office has been hosted by CSIRO, and this year, their support has grown yet again. Not only have W3C Australia ensured that we can entice Bert Bos to our shores, but they are also […]
Well, it’s a week and a day ’til our workshops, and we’ve just had our first sell out – ‘Dr. Nic’ William’s Beginning Ruby on Rails. Meanwhile, we have just a handful of places left for Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS, so if you want to get a day’s insight and inspiration with one of the […]
Via BuilderAU, our online partner at the conference, the thrilling, fascinating and disturbing story that suggests the most powerful supercomputer on earth (and that means ever) may be a botnet, of PCs infected with the Storm Worm. Distributed processing applications like SETI@home have set a precedent for such massive, parallel systems, but one particularly worrying […]
Tomorrow it’s just two weeks ’til Web Directions South 2007. Already an audience of close to 600 is expected, from all over Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, the US, South America and Europe. The only continent missing in Antarctica. So, first person who signs up from Antarctica gets a great prize. There still are places […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
