During Web Directions South, Managing Editor of SitePoint, and long time Web Directions supporter Matt Magain interviews me about the conference, its goals, and so on, for Desktop Magazine. If you don’t have access to the magazine (issue 234!) then you can read it online now, thanks to Matt and SitePoint. I think it gives […]
Yeah look, I can be irked by an HTML email as much as the next person, but step outside the rarefied atmosphere we all live and breathe for a moment and talk to some friends who work in just about any other sector and you’ll understand why they just aren’t going to disappear any time […]
I’m kind of guessing that all of you who have looked up anything on Wikipedia in the last 24hrs will have seen the link to Why Wikipedia Does Not Run Ads. Check it out if not. It has some really strong arguments about how destructive the injection of cash could be into a commons based […]
Web Directions attendee Kate Raynes-Goldie has started a pervasive gaming company over in Perth – Giant Dice. Their first Perth venture, a mobile locative game called Ghost Town, will be held from December 2-9, as part of the ByteMe! Festival of digital content. Mobile locative games are an extension of online gaming into the physical […]
OK, let me preface this by saying that my care factor for cricket per se is barely measurable on on the non quantum level. What does interest me though is people’s obsessive fascination with the game. An obsessive fascination that leads to this fine bit of work by Myles Eftos, an unholy alliance between cricinfo […]
Isn’t it funny how you will have never been to a particular city in your life, and then you find yourself going there twice in just a few months? I had a great time checking out Perth and Margaret River back in August when the good people from Western Australian Web Awards were kind enough […]
Mark Pesce’s closing keynote, Mob Rules, was definitely one of the high points of Web Directions South this year. Most of you have probably had a look at the transcript, and maybe even listened to the MP3. But what’s really great is that Mark has gone to the trouble to match the slides up with […]
I’d say you’ve been following the podcasts of the presentations from Web Directions South as they come onstream, and we’ve also gathered together a lot of the slides into the resources site. But something new and supercool has just come online: Scott Gledhill has gone the extra mile and used Slideshare to turn his presentation […]
Got wind of a really cool Aussie project today: The Footprints Network. This is a great little system to easily funnel micropayments from any online store’s customers to genuinely needy organisations the world over. There’s an approval process to join the network, but then you get an API that you can integrate with your payment […]
Co-founder of Atlassian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, who spoke at WDS07, [slides online now, presentation podcast to come] this week announced that Atlassian is partnering with Microsoft to enable Atlassian’s enterprise wiki confluence to be integrated with Microsoft’s SharePoint. More details including an interview with fellow antipodean Richard McManus at Read/Write Web. Congratulations to Atlassian who go […]
Hard on the heals of Perths planned “Freelance Friday“, Sydney boys Tim Lucas, Cam Adams and Michael Koukoullis announce Sydney’s first ‘Jelly’ cow-working day, both on Friday 26th October. So head over to one of these places for some shared inspiration.
The fine folks at Builder AU, CNET’s great local developer site, have a great wrap up of Web Directions, including several video interviews with speakers Rashmi Sinha, Adrian Holovaty, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Chris Wilson, as well as in depth interviews with Andy Clarke, Scott Gledhill, Rob Manson and Alex Young. So head over to Builder […]
With 28 presentations by over 30 presenters, getting the podcasts organized this year has been quite a task. There’s permissions to get from every author, CDs to rip and downsample (unless you want to download 60MB per presentation), the podcast RSS to create, site changes to make, and more. This year, we’ve created a large […]
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Via Builder AU, we learn that the Australian Bureau of Statistics is planning to open up it’s data for mashups. As part of an ongoing plan to make more of its data available in a variety of formats, the ABS is working to enable users to generate their own tables from raw statistical data and […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
