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Announcing Web Directions @media — London, June 8 – 11
In 2005, not long after WE04, the first conference we helped organise, well known UK web industry expert Patrick Griffiths, of HTML Dog fame, launched @media. An instant success, @media and Web Directions have always shared very similar DNA — a passion for the web, standards, accessibility and best … Read more »
MOB Case Study now.webdirections.org
The amazingly talented folks at MOB produced a couple of fantastic things for Web Directions South 09. Working with YiYing Lu, they produced the wonderful “you are what you tweet” Augmented Reality project. They also built now.webdirections.org, an iPhone optimized web application (yes, yes, the design decision … Read more »
Google’s new approach to China
Google had just taken what we believe is a huge step forward for the web, and the world
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis … Read more »
Web Directions South 09 Resources — many more now online
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Guy in preparing all the pages and producing all the podcasts, we now have a whole raft of the presentations from WDS09 now available online, so, if you’re looking to catch something you missed because you you went to another track, or you couldn’t … Read more »
Got your Google Wave invite? Scratching your head?
It looks like all the Google Wave invites for WDS09 attendees, courtesy of Stephanie and Cameron (thanks again guys!) went out over the weekend.
If you’re scratching your head as to what to do next though, and you’re in Sydney, why don’t you come along on Tuesday the 20th to the … Read more »
First batch of WDS09 resources now available
You wouldn’t believe how many things there are to do in the week after an event — I actually feel like I have been busier this week than I was in the week leading up to the conference. But one of the big things we have been treating as an … Read more »
Trip to Japan for Web Directions East — winner announced!
A couple of months back we announced that we were going to be giving away a ticket to Web Directions East to one lucky attendee of Web Directions South.
Well, that lucky attendee turned out to be Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald, who has already let us know that he is very excited to … Read more »
Web Directions — The Soundtrack
I’ve got a few enquiries here about the music we played during the conference, so I thought I should really give credit where it is due and write up something comprehensive.
Between sessions in the rooms we played XX by The XX — which came recommended by Luke … Read more »
GovHack, Canberra Oct 30 and 31 — produced by Web Directions
On Friday afternoon at Web Directions South we were excited and honoured to be able to announce GovHack, an event we’ll be producing in canberra at the end of the month. GovHack is an initiative of the Government 2.0 TaskForce, in support of MashupAustralia, a competition encouraging … Read more »
Tech23 startup event in Sydney
Hot on the heels of our amazingly well received Atlassian Startup Space at Web Directions South, Tech23 is a full day startup focussed event in Sydney on October 27.
If you are a startup, an investor, or someone thinking about starting up — get along, learn and network. … Read more »