Posted: October 11 2008 in Out and about
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The second and final day of the FOWA expo (or third and final day if you attended the workshops on the 8th) has now concluded with what was surely a riotous filming of diggnation with Kevin Rose and co. Starting much as the first day did with a stellar keynote, this time by Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems and XML fame, followed by Adam Gross of Salesforce giving a quick demo of his company’s online offering. Tim certainly started off the proceedings strongly with a frank and intelligent exploration of how web applications and more specifically, those developing them, can survive in hard times; while other attendees touched on the banking situation, none covered it quite so lucidly and with such brilliant advice attached. Adam’s talk was part marketing, part demo and, unfortunately, all forgettable.
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Posted: October 9 2008 in Out and about
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The first day of the Future of Web Apps conference has drawn to a close and an excellent day it has been so far. The day kicked off with a bang with a talk by Kevin Rose (of digg fame and as close to a web apps rock star as is possible) on the future of news, specifically social news and what can be done to make it more appealing to users. This was followed closely by a short talk by Edwin Aoki of AOL with possible prognostications on where web-apps are going and how they’ve evolved since his talk at the last FOWA in London.
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Posted: October 8 2008 in Out and about
The Future of Web Applications conference is visiting London for the fourth time and I’ll be there for the second time, soaking up the talks and atmosphere of the cutting edge of online digital development. Last year’s event managed to fit in talks from industry luminaries such as Kevin Rose, Om Malik, Michael Arrington and Matt Mullenweg with company representation from Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe, AOL, Facebook and many more. This year looks to expand on that line-up with Google, Sun Microsystems and Amazon Web Services joining the mix.
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