It is with a mixture of jubilation and sadness that I announce I am moving on from my current position at Bam Creative to take up a contract position at with Norg Media. Jubilation because of the opportunity to work on an exciting Web 2.0 startup over here in Perth, whilst still being able to pursue my own projects - sadness because I will be leaving a great bunch of workmates over at Bam.
By the time I leave at the end of June, it will be just over a year since I made the move from freelancing to full time work. The past twelve months has taught me more about teamwork and running a business than I could have garnered in a lifetime of freelance work, and for that opportunity I would like to offer my sincerest thanks to Miles and the rest of the team. I’m going to miss the crazy shenanigans that have gone on within the Bam walls.
I am really looking forward to taking the development position at PerthNorg - having the opportunity to work with a site that is young, growing and showing it’s potential is one that is hard to pass up. The fact that Bronwen has allowed me to work four days, giving me to have a MadPilot day has made the deal even sweeter, so now I can spend more time on 88 Miles, Twitteresce, AWIA and the WAWAs as well as pursue some of the other projects that I have in my head.
All in all an exciting time to be in the industry really!
I just released version 0.7 of twitteresce. This release fixes a couple of bugs with the automatic updating system, displays how long ago tweets and direct messages were posted and it now remembers what tweet you were looking at when flicking between the tweet view and read tweet view - trust me this makes catching up out the twitterverse much easier!
As always, get it from the MadPilot website.
Thankfully the goings on of the WA Web Industry Association and the WA Web Awards is a little more exciting than this blog post title.
The April mini-talk podcasts and slides are up - unfortunately, the podcast gods decided to send Nick’s recording to the Bahamas on a junket, leaving Bronwen’s talk to fend for it’s self. Thankfully, he supplied his talk notes, which should give you a fair idea of what is going on.
This month’s talks will be Richard Giles from Scouta with his talk “Digital Social Networking, For Fun and Profit” and Stephen Carrol on “Government grants and assistance”. For those of you who want get in to the wonderful world of Web 2.0 social startups, and want some advice the talks are on Wednesday 2 May 2007 at the Velvet Lounge behind the Flying Scotsman in Mt Lawley from about 6 o’clock. Talks will start at 6:30.
We (we being the WA Web Awards sub-committee) have quietly launched the new WA Web Awards website for 2007. We will loudly announce it in a couple of weeks once tickets and entries are open to the public. I would suggest heading over and subscribing to the RSS feed and newsletter, so you can receive the loud announcement.
We are looking for sponsors for said awards at the moment, so if you think your company would benefit exposure to a couple of hundred web developers and designers, drop me a line and I can hook you up with a proposal.
A list apart is conducting an online survey of the web industry. If you are in the industry I would recommend you take 10 minutes out of your day - the more responses, the better the data.
Have you done it yet? It’s ok, I’ll wait.
Twitteresce 0.5 has been released! This update includes:
- direct messaging support: you can now read you direct messages
- the ability to “Close” Twitteresce rather than exiting - this means you can leave Twitteresce in the background. It will then popup and alert if you are running in automatic mode and you have a new tweet.
- a fix for the annoying bug where the the post screen would disappear if new tweets arrived.
You can download here.
Enjoy!
Edit: Had to release 0.6 to fix a regression bug - Sorry!
