This is an excellent collection of articles from Robert Hoekman Jr who spoke for us recently at our Melbourne and Canberra events. We all know how critical it is to get the sign up aspect of any web experience right – yet vast tracts of the web still get it so very wrong. Take a […]
With the launch last night of OpenAustralia.org, we now have our very own edition of TheyWorkForYou, thanks to the hard work of a group of local volunteers, plus the good people of mySociety, who build the technology on which the system is based. OpenAustralia combines Hansard (the official record of Australian parliamentary debates – effectively […]
According to its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, speaking last week at the Future of the Web Debate, In the future, the web should be able to connect people’s ideas in such a way that one person could store his partly formed ideas and leave a trail of his thinking for other people trying to solve the […]
We appreciate that for a lot of our attendees coming to Web Directions costs quite a bit more than just the price of admission. Apart from the chance to win an iPhone, this is another good reason to get stuck into sorting your registration out now while flights are still reasonable, and cheap and cheerful […]
My other favourite Aussie web app just goes from strength to strength. Congratulations to Emily and Omar at Remember the Milk for taking out the category of Best iPhone Web Application in the Apple Design Awards recently announced at WWDC. I know this will be rubbing the curmudgeons out there the wrong way, but my […]
An ongoing saga from the annals of cluelessness. For a good laugh, or cry, really, if you are in fact considering getting an iPhone here in Australia, do be sure to read the comments.
This is yet another great idea from Web Directions South 08 speaker Jeff Veen. Someone smart, enterprising, hard working and crazy should do such a thing in Australia. Or maybe they should use their talents more fruitfully.
Going to SXSW interactive in Austin is a great experience, but anyone will tell you that it’s even better if you go as a panelist. If you’ve got an idea for a panel you’d like to chair, in my opinion it’s well worth your while to take a few minutes and submit it. But do […]
It’s too easy for the rest of the world to sit around and be cynical and sigh a big “whatever” at the release of the 3G iPhone 2. Dammit, we southern hemispherites need something to get excited about as the deep of Winter approaches, so, upgraded camera or not, the iPhone it will be! In […]
Starting your own web design agency and becoming the Blue Flavor or the Happy Cog of Australia is the dream of so many who come to Web Directions every year I’m sure. Such a big step though, and not a decision to be taken lightly. Knowledge is the thing that will help you take the […]
We appreciate that there are many people for whom the price of admission to Web Directions South 08 must seem extravagent. At the same time we are confident that we make the ticket price as reasonable as we possibly can for such an event. The addition of the Expo and more extentensive sponsorship last year […]
When anaesthetists from Blakehurst start doing things like this … be afraid.
Wondering if anyone out there might be interested in about a day’s work, some time in the next week, to help us produce the podcasts from Web Directions User Experience and Government. We’re all set up to manage the podcasting itself ourselves, but we need someone who can record a simple intro and outro for […]
And this time feeling doesn’t even have to cost you a cent. All you have to do over at Mission Australia’s House the Homeless site is click a link. Every time someone does this Realesate.com.au donates $1.00 to the cause. Now if Medecins Sans Frontiers can start doing this, and disband their league of backpackers […]
I’m a little late on this for Australia, but in many parts of the world it is still April 30, so, Happy Fifteenth Birthday Web! If you were a human you would be in the smack in the middle of the very worst part of your spotty, rebellious, confused teenagerhood. And no doubt sqirming with […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
