WebDirections Conference goers

Web Directions in Desktop Magazine

john During Web Directions South, Managing Editor of SitePoint, and long time Web Directions supporter Matt Magain interviews me about the conference, its goals, and so on, for Desktop Magazine. If you don't have access to the magazine (issue 234!) then you can read it online now, thanks to ...
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The Future of Email Design

maxine Yeah look, I can be irked by an HTML email as much as the next person, but step outside the rarefied atmosphere we all live and breathe for a moment and talk to some friends who work in just about any other sector and you'll understand why they just aren't ...
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Why wikipedia does not run ads

maxine I'm kind of guessing that all of you who have looked up anything on Wikipedia in the last 24hrs will have seen the link to Why Wikipedia Does Not Run Ads. Check it out if not. It has some really strong arguments about how destructive the injection of cash could ...
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Ghost Town - another reason to check out Perth’s ByteMe! festival

maxine Web Directions attendee Kate Raynes-Goldie has started a pervasive gaming company over in Perth - Giant Dice. Their first Perth venture, a mobile locative game called Ghost Town, will be held from December 2-9, as part of the ByteMe! Festival of digital content. Mobile locative games are an ...
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Cricket action via twitter

maxine OK, let me preface this by saying that my care factor for cricket per se is barely measurable on on the non quantum level. What does interest me though is people's obsessive fascination with the game. An obsessive fascination that leads to this fine bit of work by Myles Eftos, an ...
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Off to Perth again

maxine Isn't it funny how you will have never been to a particular city in your life, and then you find yourself going there twice in just a few months? I had a great time checking out Perth and Margaret River back in August when the good people from Western Australian ...
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Relive Mark Pesce’s Mob Rules at Youtube

maxine Mark Pesce's closing keynote, Mob Rules, was definitely one of the high points of Web Directions South this year. Most of you have probably had a look at the transcript, and maybe even listened to the MP3. But what's really great is that Mark has gone to the ...
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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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