WebDirections Conference goers

Archive for October, 2007

First Slidecast available

maxine 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 ...
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Make the world a better place, one micropayment at the time

maxine 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 ...
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Web Directions Speakers in the New: Mike Cannon-Brookes

john 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 ...
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A bit of co-working in Sydney?

john 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.

Web Directions at Builder AU

john 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 ...
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Web Directions Wrap up - the podcasts commence

john 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, ...
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Come to Web Directions Free, from anywhere in the world!

john This year some lucky person will get to go to Web Directions North for free, from anywhere in the world. Join our affiliates program and it could be you. Here's how it works. Get in touch with us and we'll set you up as an affiliate. Use your affiliate link, ...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, start your mashups

john 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 ...
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Web Directions North is launched

john Last year was a blast, so this year we are doing it all again, in Vancouver from January 28 to February 2nd. Along with web legends Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone, we've put together a programme of workshops and speakers featuring as always some of the leading web experts ...
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Web Directions Wrap up - the blogosphere

john Over at Technorati you'll find about 1000 in bound links to Web Directions - so we aren't quite Engadget, but I think that's pretty cool. Here's some of the posts I found with wrapups, comments, suggestions and thoughts that you might be interested in. There are plenty more ...
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Powerhouse Museum - Jobs

maxine Folksonomies, mashups, data visualisation, UCD, usability, experimentation? One of the speakers from Web Directions South this year, Sebastian Chan from the Powerhouse Museum, just got in touch this morning to say his team is looking to fill a couple of developer roles. Sebastian's presentation - Social Media and Government 2.0 - ...
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Freelance Friday/Work@Jelly

john Work from home, and sometimes like to mix it with folks like you? Want to bounce ideas and techniques off similar minded people? In Sydney or Perth? Then mark down October 26th as the first "freelance friday" (or in Sydney Work@Jelly) day. Check out Myles Eftos's blog if you are ...
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Scott Buchanan and Ben Maguire

maxine Wig meets Web (2.0): harnessing the law to commercialise and protect your IP MP3 of presentation - to come Presentation slides - to come Session description About Scott Buchanan and Ben Maguire Session description Innovation and development in web 2.0 moves ever faster, the law as slow as always. So how can you ...
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Web Design Job in Perth, WA

john Our good friends in Perth, BAM Creative, are looking for a standards based designer. So, if you are looking for a job over that way, check out their offering.

Adrian Holovaty interview at SitePoint

john SitePoint continues their coverage of Web Directions South with a just posted interview with Adrian Holovaty. I happen to think Adrian is one of the most influential people on the web, with major involvement in Django, Mashups, GreaseMonkey, online journalism, and more. We'll have the podcast of his presentation ...
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Making Links - Special Offer for Web Directions delegates

maxine Making Links 2007 is one of Australiaís leading forums for workers and activists in the not-for-profit sector to share skills and information relating to website development, online campaigning, online social networking and community building, and other ICT issues. The conference is in Sydney, October 30th - 31st This year the ...
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Accessibility is about people, not compliance

john As developers, designers, architects, anyone really who designs and builds things that people rely on to get on with their lives, often think about accessibility is very theoretical terms. In the case of the built environment, it's about complying with building codes. On the web it's about meeting WCAG level ...
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BuilderAU Web Directions features

john Builder AU, the local edition of CNET Networks Australia site for developers was our online partner for the conference, and were there in force covering Web Directions. The fruit of their efforts is now coming online, including video interviews with speakers (currently there are interviews with Adrian Holovaty and ...
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Speaker Interviews at SitePoint

john At Web Directions Kevin Yank from SitePoint spoke with some of our speakers, and there are now a couple of these audio interviews online. First up, there's an interview with Andy Clarke, and Cameron Adams, two of our most popular speakers (people were standing in the hallway outside the room ...
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iPod Touch winner from SitePoint

john Matt Magain from SitePoint got in touch to let me know the winner of the iPod Touch in their recent "Why do you love the Web" competition . Congratulations to Teresa Ko, and I know you'll love you iPod too - I sure do!

Slides and podcasts

maxine Just a quick note for all those who have been emailing us asking after these. As many of them as we can gather together will be posted at the site real soon now. It does take a little time to contact all the speakers and get their slides and notes from ...
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More Jobs - Developer/Designer at Glass Onion

john Great supporters of Web Directions, and strong proponents of standards based design, Glass Onion, are looking for a Web Designer/Developer. Web Designer Excellent written and communications skills Able to work Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash Knowledge of standards-based HTML and CSS coding Glass Onion is a Sydney based web design, development, intranet, extranet, search and ...
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win an iPod Touch, or get a Job, at SitePoint

john SitePoint, excellent Australian based web design and development publishing company and community have an iPod touch to give away. Just head over to their site and tell them why you love the web by Friday, and you could win one of these fantastic devices (I got one last week. ...
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Gilmore’s Law

john Fans sabotaging scalpers' auctions Pace Mark Pesce WDS07 Closing Keynote.