There’s so much to come in the hours, days and weeks ahead, but just right now, a huge thanks to all who made Web Directions what it was. Amazing. We’ll have much more specific thanks coming soon, but for now, the sincerest gratitude from Maxine and me.
The winner of the McFarlane Prize, 2008, is Pro Plaster Products by Propeller Global. Billy Hughes at War for the Old Parliament House, by IceLab was highly commended by the judges. Congratulations to the team at Propeller, at IceLab, and all the finaists, and a huge thank you to the entrants.
Monday morning after a week like the last one can be heavy going no? If things seem just a little pedestrian as you look around the office this morning, and contemplate what you have to do this week, you do have options you know. Take a break round 11 and check out jobs.webdirections.org, and in […]
It’s quiet on the blog, but Twitter, Flickr, the blogs and YouTube are are alive with comments, photos, video and more from the conference. Follow along if you couldn’t come!
I’m an optimist – it’s in my nature. Not a blithe one, but definitely my instinct is to not see the worst in a situation. Clearly so to is Douglas Rushkoff, author, public intellectual, and all round big thinker. Douglas has a long essay on the implications of the current financial system crisis, that is […]
The Jury for the prize has now drawn up the shortlist for this year’s prize. The standard of this year’s entries was without doubt the best yet, demonstrating that each year, the quality of Australia’s web industry’s output improves considerably. I’m sure Nigel would have been most pleased with that. This year’s shortlist (in alphabetical […]
With a week to go, it’s time to start firing up your social networks, and other online tools in preparation for the conference. If you take photos, and use Flickr, please upload them with the tag wds08 (or search for photos tagged wds08 to see what others are seeing). If you want to follow us […]
The boys from Campaign monitor always make a splash at Web Directions, this year going one better than an iMac, by giving away a Macbook Air during the conference. And they’ve teamed up with a number of speakers to reward you for paying attention – check out their blog for all the details. What with […]
Jina Bolton, one of the excellent international speakers we have lined up for Web Directions next week features in a detailed interview in SitePoint – so to get a sense of what she has in store for her presentation, head over to SitePoint for her chat with Matt Magain.
We are fast coming up on a milestone that when we started this crazy web directions thing a few years ago, if you’d told me we’d be anywhere near, I would have doubted your sanity. Last year we went just past 500 attendees, and we are again nearing that pretty amazing number. I think it […]
Keeping abreast with browser and standards developments, latest scripting and styling techniques, let alone next generation developments like HTML5 is a full time job. Since most of us have full time jobs, what we at Web Directions try to do is a lot of that job for you – by hunting down speakers who can […]
Scott and Cheryl of molt:n digital came up with a great design for the t shirts they’ll be giving away at the conference this year. Make sure you get yourself one by blogging or flickring something about Web Directions and tagging it with moltnWD. Full details at the molt:n blog. Personally, I’m loving the Gap-esque […]
A couple of weeks back we announced a keynote presentation by August de los Reyes, chief experience architect for the Surface project. Well, not only will we have August speaking, but you’ll be able to get your hands on the Surface itself, in a rare public outing. Not sure how it will go with 600 […]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has announced a new organization, the World Wide Web Foundation, whose goals are to advance One Web that is free and open to expand the Web’s capability and robustness to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet Clearly the foundation is meant to complement the technical role of the […]
99designs and Gruden have just come on board as our closing night party sponsors, which is great news in itself. But even better is the fact that you can grab yourself an ipod touch, not to mention front bar bragging rights, by whipping up a design for the drinks tickets we’ll be using on the […]
I have yet to have an end-to-end conference experience that was as professional as what was provided by Web Directions
Joe Toscano Founder, designgood.tech
