Our latest events include State of Play, the business and technology of HTML5 games, in Sydney May 28, and Code, Australia's HTML5 and JavaScript developer conference.
James Bridle — Web Directions South 2010 interview
Over the next couple of weeks we shall tackle the hot issue of e-book and e-publishing. We begin with interviewing Web Directions South 2010 British speaker James Bridle, following it up next week with San Franciso based Craig Mod’s slightly different take on this very intriguing topic…
Title: E-Books
By: … Read more »
Our latest event, Unplugged: Building awesome native & web apps with open web technologies
For years now, the web has been evolving from a web of pages and documents, to being more application oriented. We’ve long seen “webapps” of the likes of Flickr, and Gmail, but with HTML5, particularly on iOS, Android, webOS, and other emerging platforms we are seeing open web technologies becoming … Read more »
Apps4NSW — In the tradition of Amped and GovHack
Back in late 2009, we were privileged to be asked by the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce to run an event encouraging developers, designers and others to build great applications with open government data. The success (and downright plain fun of GovHack) got us here at Web Directions wondering … Read more »
Scott Thomas: Video interview from Web Directions South 2010
Last year at Web Directions South Danielle Szetho had a great time interviewing a bunch of our speakers. Today, thanks to the people at Hunting with Pixels, we’re going to start publishing the videos of these … Read more »
Help a (bobsledding) brother out?
Joe Clark, who did us the honour of speaking at the very first conference we ever produced, Web Essentials (way back in 2004), got in touch the other month with a project he’s hoping to get a bit of help for. It’s definitely not your run-of-the-mill affair, but it’s something … Read more »
New Web Directions Office — Want to hang with us?
Web Directions is moving! Admittedly, we’re keeping it tight and only shifting about 500m from where I am sitting right now. But it’s going to be super exciting for us as we are taking over such a beautiful space, which you may already know as the old … Read more »
What we did on our Holidays — Web Directions and Amped US and Australian wraps
The last 2 months have been incredibly hectic for us here at Web Directions. In the space of a bit over 3 weeks, we ran our first Web Directions USA in Atlanta, the first ever Amped, in Atlanta, then backed up 2 weeks later in Sydney for Web Directions South, … Read more »
Audio & slides from Web Directions South now available
We’re always proud to make our conference sessions available to the widest possible audience, and so here they are. Whether it’s a session you missed or if you’re 10,000 miles from Australia, enjoy learning from the experts we brought together for Web Directions South.
We’re also pleased to announce that Andy … Read more »
Help stop the spread of NIBS (Native is Better Syndrome)
John Gruber, well known and highly successful opinionista, is perhaps the highest profile carrier of the “native” apps are intrinsically better than web apps meme (let’s call it Native is better Syndrome, or NIBS). I think it’s time for some vaccination.
Let’s take a look at the most recent outbreak … Read more »
McFarlane Prize 2010 Shortlist Announced
In 2006, we instituted the McFarlane Prize, in memory of Nigel McFarlane, to promote excellence in Australian web design and development, and highlight the Australian Web industry. We’re proud to announce this year’s shortlist, with the winner to be announced on Thursday at Web Directions.
A huge thanks to … Read more »
Web Week kicks off — with loads of new events
The second Australian Web Week kicks off today, with a load of return events from last year, as well as plenty of new events as well.
A huge thanks to all those who are putting on events — many of which are free.
Today the week kicked off with the … Read more »
Web Directions South 2010 — nearly here!
It’s a little over a week to go until Web Directions South for this year, and if you’re not quite sure whether you can make it or not, our most recent speaker announcements might just tip you over.
In addition to our already stellar lineup of … Read more »
Amped #1 coming together
Next week sees Web Directions USA head to Atlanta for the first time. We’re really looking forward to what is shaping up as a great event in a town I’ve really grown to like (not least because of the fantastic web folks here).
We’re also really proud to be … Read more »
Seb Chan on Web Directions
One of our favourite Australian digital/web folks, Seb Chan, has this to say about Web Directions today
Web Directions South is an event we always try to send team members along to to expand their technical and conceptual knowledge of where the web is heading. Paula’s going … Read more »
Agile Australia Approaching
We know that the Agile approach to development is very popular among many of you in web development, and Australia’s Agile methodology conference, Agile Australia, is coming up September 15 and 16 in Melbourne. Lots of excellent speakers and practical content on the menu — so make sure if … Read more »
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