speakers

Mark Pesce in today’s Sydney Morning Herald

Web Directions clos­ing keynote speaker, Mark Pesce is inter­viewed in depth in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.

So to get a sense of what he’ll be talk­ing about, and the ideas he is kick­ing around, take a look.

New keynote speaker — Chris Wilson

We are really excited to announce our final keynote speaker for Web Directions South 2007 — Chris Wilson. Chris, cur­rently the co-​​chair of the W3C’s HTML work­ing group, and Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer browser has a long and extra­or­di­nary career with the web. He was a devel­oper … Read more »

Web Directions Speakers — Mark Pesce

Last year’s con­fer­ence closed with what may just become some­thing of a tra­di­tion, a keynote from Mark Pesce. Mark is one of the things the web seems to fos­ter so well, a gen­uine poly­math, whose “blog” hyper­peo­ple (I hes­i­tate to call it that because its really a col­lec­tion of … Read more »

Speakers in the news — Scott Gledhill

A new local speaker for 2007 is Scott Gledhill, from News Interactive. Well, Scott’s a local now, though hails from near Vancouver in Canada. Scott’s newsigh blog, http://​stan​dard​zilla​.com/ pro­vides no non­sense opin­ion and idea on using stan­dards in a cor­po­rate con­text, and he’s just had a fea­ture arti­cle pub­lished … Read more »

Early bird finishes tomorrow at midnight, Andy Clarke selling fast

A quick final reminder that to get $200 off the full ticket price of Web Directions, (that makes it only $795 includ­ing GST) you’ll have to reg­is­ter by tomor­row night at mid­night. You can pay later, but that is the final chance to get the early bird discount.

Registrations have been … Read more »

Web Directions speakers in the news — Gian Sampson-​​Wild

While she might not e speak­ing this year, last year’s speaker Gian Sampson-​​Wild has an impor­tant role to play in con­junc­tion with Web Directions South this year, which we’ll be announc­ing next week. For now, she’s been in the news a fair bit, and has just pub­lished an arti­cle on … Read more »

Web Directions speakers in the news — Angela Beesley

Angela Beesley, speak­ing on Wikis and com­mu­nity col­lab­o­ra­tion in our management/​strategy track is, along with Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) a founder of Wikia, which aims to be “To be the defin­i­tive, unbi­ased resource of the Web.”. Read/​Write Web is pro­fil­ing Wikia today. They are doing … Read more »

iPhone/​Safari is the Mosaic of the Mobile Web

Really old folks like me remem­ber a time before the web. And then a time when the web was an inter­est­ing tech­nol­ogy. And then Mosaic, the browser which by virtue of (many peo­ple would argue) incor­po­rat­ing inline images in web pages kick­started the web.

I think that in the wake … Read more »

Web Directions — it’s not just for geeks

Since last week’s launch there’s been a lot of cov­er­age online about the con­fer­ence (and brisk signups too, thanks very much for those who have signed up already, we are off to a crack­ing start). One thing that a num­ber of peo­ple have men­tioned is that Web Directions is a … Read more »

Web Directions Speakers in profile — Adrian Holovaty

I’m not quite sure when I first heard of Adrian Holovaty, but I’d long heard of Chicago Crime, one of the very first “mashups”, which Adrian devel­oped. With that kind of achieve­ment, you’d be for­given for think­ing that Adrian was a com­puter sci­en­tist, but in fact, his back­ground … Read more »