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WDS09 Day 1 closing keynote: Cameron Adams

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• By:Maxine
• June 17, 2009
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I actu­ally got a lit­tle teary just then when I posted this at the site (not some­thing I nor­mally do while cruis­ing around my Wordpress admin): the day 1 clos­ing keynote at Web Directions South 2009 will be my good friend, Cameron Adams, talk­ing about his expe­ri­ences as part of the Google Wave team. Cameron was one of the first peo­ple I ever met on the web. Back in the day when we still had to have that con­ver­sa­tion “OMG! The man in blue is actu­ally from Australia!”, Cameron came to the first ever Web Essentials, and we haven’t been able to get rid of him since.

There are so many nerdy-​​cool things he has done, but here’s my own per­sonal top 5 Cameron Adams moments:

• Daft Dock
• The grave­yard of E
• Tim would lick it
• A drum machine in JavaScript
• Visible tweets

All his pre­sen­ta­tions at Web Directions have been incred­i­bly mem­o­rable, and he always packs out the room with peo­ple want­ing to see what he’s going to do next. So, John and I thought it was time to give him a real room to fill: we couldn’t think of any­one we’d like more to do our day 1 clos­ing keynote, and were thrilled when he accepted.

2 responses to “WDS09 Day 1 closing keynote: Cameron Adams”:

1. • By:John
   • June 18th, 2009
   

   I for one wel­come our Adams overlords!

   All silli­ness aside, Cam is an amaz­ing inspi­ra­tion, and is one of the rea­sons we in the web indus­try here in Australia can say we punch above our weight in terms of our influ­ence and recog­ni­tion around the world.

   john

2. • By:Elton Lester
   • June 18th, 2009
   

   Wow, the line up keeps get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter. So glad I’ve got my seat booked.

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