I just attended the talk given by Dave Greiner & Ben Richardson who created Campaign Monitor and it was the first talk of today that really hit home. Don’t get me wrong, the other talks have been excellent, but this one, for me anyway was about something that REALLY interested me. That is, creating and marketing a online application that solves a specific problem, all while working somewhere else full time. For those of you plpaying at home, I’m doing exactly that with 88 Miles.
It was very reassuring that these guys went through simple experiences that I have had or am currently having. I’m going to stalk, erm, filnd them after all the talks finish and picks their brains.
I’m currently in John Allsopp’s microformats and mashup talk. It is filling my geek quota quite nicely…
More soon.
Kelly Goto has just finished her talk - very interesting. Maybe not in terms of real concepts, but definately has supplied food for though.
Now listening to Jeremy Keith about AJAX. Been eXcellent so far 
That’s right kiddies, I have arrived in Sydney and I’m waiting for the first talks to start.
I’ve set up a Flickr feed (You can see the results down the bottom of the sidebar, to your right. Please mind the gap.
I’ve set up Shozu to send any photos I take from my picture phone straight to Flickr in (almost) real time, so enjoy the love. Assuming that I remember to take some photos
So watch this space for all the latest news from the coolest web conference this side of Sydney harbour…
…until webdirections 06. I’m starting to get rather excited about it all now. Even though I don’t actually have accomodation yet
I’ve quite looking forward to meeting the international and national speakers - it will be really cool to meet the big thinkers in the web industry, like Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone and Andy Clarke (not to mention the others!). Hopefully it will leave me motivated and full of beans. Not that I’m not motivated at the moment, but you can never have to much.
Tim Lucas and Cameron Adams obviously have way to much time on their hands, as they released Web directions connections. Cool little app - both Miles and I spent a little too much time playing with it this morning, even though neither really could afford to (work hasn’t really eased up).
Speaking of 88 Miles (Leave me alone - it’s been a big week and I can’t be bothered coming up with a proper segway*), things are ramping up. I’ve made a few tweaks with the design and copy, and it seems to be attracting more sign-ups like a bees to the honeypot. It would be cool to get some big names in the web industry to have a look and blog about it. Now, where to find some poeple of high-enough profile… Hmmm.
On a personal note, I finally graduated last night, so I’m now officially a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons). Thankyou god it is all over…
It would be a safe bet that my next post will be from Sydney (if my laptop makes it back in time), so until then…
* Is this even the correct spelling on the word in theis context?!
