Archive for the 'WD06' Category

At the most recent port80 meet, Myles talked about the lack of cut­ting edge present­a­tions at WD06 and that while AJAX, APIs and micro­formats present­a­tions where good, he was already using them on a reg­u­lar basis and was hop­ing for some­thing new and exciting.

Which got think­ing about what I got from WD06 and was it bet­ter to gain know­ledge or be inspired about a subject …

Two days of WD06 work­shops, two days of WD06 proper, two days of OZIA con­fer­ence and seven nights of drink­ing social net­work­ing. What can I say that has not be blogged about by oth­ers, so here are the per­sonal high­lights in rough chro­no­lo­gical order.

One of the inter­est­ing facets of WD06 was Web Con­nec­tions. A social net­work­ing tool pro­duced by Tim Lucas and Cameron Adams to allow attendees to contect up and tag each other. I ended up in the most pop­u­lar list, mainly because with 15 mem­bers of the Perth Port80 posse at WD06, we all had a big num­ber of estab­lished connections.

Even without wifi access for the work­shop days, I attemp­ted to con­nect to the people I met. This earned me a web con­nec­tion whore stick­ers from Andrew K. and Ben Buchan, but con­nect­ing paid dividends…

Andy Clarke presents Andrew Krespanis a pair of brit­pack pair of under­pants at WD06

This should be the right video now

A dir­ect quote from Andy Clarke, his present­a­tion was the one that has got me think­ing the most at WD06. Par­tic­u­larly about this blog, I know I need to fix my typo­graphy and javas­cript. Dur­ring the social net­work­ing last night, I was given a solu­tion to my flash and OsX flash­player prob­lem, so I was ready to do so refin­ing work to this blog, but Any got me think­ing, so stay tuned …

I made it to Web Dir­ec­tions 06 and have sur­vived two work­shops and three nights of net­work­ing. The con­fer­ence proper starts today. …

I am sur­prised by the num­ber of people I know or read their blogs of who will be attend­ing Web Dir­ec­tions. Cameron Adams and Tim Lucas cre­ated Web Con­nec­tions 06 to con­nect the people attend­ing WD06. Of the forty odd people who have con­nec­ted so far, I have met half of them, from sit­ting next to them at WE05 and exchan­ging busi­ness cards (Kevin Yank), to going to school with a couple of dec­ades back (Gary Barber). If you are going to WD06, go and con­nect it is an good little app, even if my pro­file has ceased to function

1600 21 Septem­ber, the ruby mon­keys put my pro­file back ;-) it was only for 10 minutes or so and only my pro­file, every­body else’s I checked worked fine.

The offical announce­ment has not been made, but WD06 site is now oper­at­ing (see the menu of the right hand side). I have just gone and booked and paid for my ticket. The whole kit and kaboodle, two work­shops, break­fast will Molly and the conference.

tagged web dir­ec­tions web dir­ec­tions 06 WD06