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 […]
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, and our badges, to spread […]
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 […]
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 in design, development, mobile, and much […]
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 out there. And of course, remember the […]
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 – was one of the […]
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 in Perth, or the Nerf […]
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 best harness […]
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.
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 at the conference soon, but in […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
