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Microformats – John Allsopp

How can technology make people’s lives better? John has a 10 month old daughter; he doesn’t get out much. He wants to see a movie, but what good movies are out right now? Centralized solutions – Someone owns this data, we have to trust them not to be biased. Search – 38,000,000 results for the […]

Dave Greiner and Ben Richardson – What We Learnt Building Campaign Monitor

Background started IT firm ‘Switch IT’ during the first web bubble 2003-2004 approached by more customers to send bulk email Always something missing from existing applications – the seed of idea is planted Took a few hours per day for 6 months to have a go at building their dream email campaign system Designed exclusively […]

Jeremy Keith – Exploring AJAX

“what is Ajax? That is what I’m going to try and answer today” Introduces AJAX and the birth of the term. Maybe it is just a buzzword; maybe that’s not a bad thing X in AJAX adds “the X factor” – if anyone’s looking to coin the next buzzword, stick with X. Clearly we need […]

Keynote: Kelly Goto – Designing for Lifestyle

Everyone’s talking about the internet, what’s working, not working for them. Different cultural implications of technology – very different whilst very ‘the same’ “two years ahead, ten steps ahead” – what will we have to work with in 2 years from now? Designing for lifestyle is where we really are – dive deeply into immersive […]

Notes from the Front Line

The following posts will be in raw note form for now so as to allow me to keep up with the presentations while getting as much online as possible. When I get some more this evening I will come back and expand upon the points. Caution: falling character debris… [tags] wdo6, raw notes[/tags]

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