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SxSw08 Wrap Up

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Well, the creme de la creme Web Design and Development Conference in Austin, Texas certainly lived up to its formidable reputation.

And it’s hard to put into one blog post an event that encompasses so many aspects of the web, real time social networking, some marketing, and a lot of partying with new friends.

SxSw 2008

One interesting statistic was that it was thought 20% of America’s iPhone users were at SxSw. There were a lot of iPhones, and Apple products everywhere you looked. It felt like being part of a community just by having similar gadgets with these folks.

I really loved the openness of the event, it’s true - you can sit next to a Vice president of Yahoo! on one side and an A list web celebrity on the other.

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Geek Cider Thing - Tasting Notes

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Following a successful evening spent with fellow geeks at the ‘Geek (insert drink name here) Thing‘ at Brunswick Square, I wanted to provide a follow up with tasting notes and further links to encourage you to research Cider in your own time, and who knows it may even become one of your favourite hobbies too!

The actual event started off by eating apples..

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SXSW 2008 Dates Announced

Monday, July 30th, 2007

SxSW is of course back for 2008, this time, rather than hearing from colleagues about just how good it was.. I am going!

If you are going you can book your hotel, and book your plane ticket now. Return flights from Gatwick to Texas start at the £300 mark.
Here are the dates:

  • SXSW Interactive: Friday March 7 - Tuesday March 11
  • SXSW Film: Friday March 7 - Saturday March 15
  • SXSW Music: Wednesday March 12 - Sunday March 16

New for 2008: SXSW.mobi

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Skillswap Brighton - Microformats Workshop

Friday, May 11th, 2007

A great introduction to microformat examples

May 11, 2007 by Jim Callender
photo of 'Skillswap Brighton Microformats'

Skillswap Brighton Microformats

★★★★☆

A review of last nights presentation on Microformats by Jeremy Keith, at the Lighthouse, Brighton.
It was a relaxed affair, ’s 3rd event this year.. There was about 15 other freelancers in a room with Jeremy on a sofa in front of a projector..

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notes from Internet World

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

The annual event held at Earls Court in London, saw many more people attending the event than last years.. Over 3000 people filled the venue each day.

Also probably the least geekiest web event to attend in the web industry calendar.

I attended on the wednesday, when I saw the following presentations:

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The Highland Fling ‘progressive enhancement’ conference review

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Notes of the inaugural Scottish web conference organised by Alan White

An early start from Brighton to attend a conference in Edinburgh, with an interesting title. As Edinburgh is not in the highlands, but perhaps a great subtitle of progressive enhancement to attract us southerners to make the trip across the borders.

Aim of conference: The first Scottish conference based on progressive enhancement demonstrating what we can do today for tomorrow > learning the correct methods of web development > progressive enhancement of the web.

Photo of Jeremy Keith’s Secret Fling

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Web Design and Development Conferences in 2007

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

As you will see from my upcoming.org account, there’s a fine list of events this year I’m either attending or watching.

WebDD > Already attended. In my home town of Reading.

The Future of Web Apps

The second year for this event from Carson Summits. What looks like to be a fun filled business, news/media and technology 2 day conference. Some fantastic speakers, some of who I saw last year at @Media2006.

The Highland Fling

A first for the Scottish Web community - This inaugural Highland Fling conference will cover the topic of progressive enhancement. Two of Brighton’s own regular speakers, Jeremy Keith and Andy Budd address the the subjects of Ajax and CSS3 respectively.

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