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3 Days Left: Early Bird Ends This Friday!

There are just three days left (including today) to take advantage of the discounted early bird tickets for @media 2008.

Remember it’s Good Friday this Friday, so if you’re not in a position to register then, make sure you do so by tomorrow!

Posted 19th Mar, ‘08 | No Comments

In The Wake Of SxSWi

South By South West Interactive, the world’s largest event for (but not exclusively for) web design types, finished last week, garnering similar responses to last year’s event.

Casual conversation revealed two major points: “It’s great to see everyone” and “It’s tooo big”.

Probably not something most companies would gain the greatest return on investment from (especially those who have to travel some distance to get there), those looking for focused, educational, dare I say higher quality content, would do better looking elsewhere (ahem). That said, this is a huge city-takeover, taking place in the bars and restaurants as much as in the convention centre. This is where you go for a rollicking good time, and most certainly seemed to have that.

SxSW isn’t so much a conference as a festival. At 7,500 attendees (ten times that of @media London), a decidedly no-frills affair across 5 days and 13 tracks (no, that’s not a typo: Thirteen. Thir. Teen.), and an emphasis on the social side, this is Geek Glastonbury.

It remains a unique experience and continues to offer high points (social) and low points (oversized).

Posted 18th Mar, ‘08 | No Comments

Yummy Podcasts

For a taste of @media, why not try sampling some tasty podcast treats? Great presentations from @media 2007 by the likes of Jesse James Garrett, Nate Koechley, Jon Hicks, Dan Cederholm, Richard Ishida, and Håkon Wium Lie can be downloaded and listened to in the warm and fuzzy privacy of your own headphones:

• Mark Boulton: Five Simple Steps to Better Typography
• Dan Cederholm: Interface Design Juggling
• Tantek Çelik: Microformats, Building Blocks, and You
• Joe Clark: When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem
• Andy Clarke: Royale With Cheese
• Jesse James Garrett: Beyond Ajax
• Shawn Henry: Advancing Web Accessibility
• Jon Hicks: How to be a Creative Sponge
• Molly Holzschlag: The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All
• Richard Ishida: Designing for International Users: Practical Tips
• Jeremy Keith: Bulletproof Ajax
• Håkon Wium Lie: 1 Web, Acid2 and CSS3
• Nate Koechley: High Performance Web Pages
• Jason Santa Maria: Diabolical Design: The Devil is in the Details
• Dan Webb: The Mysteries Of JavaScript-Fu
• Hot Topics Panel

Podcasts from the recent @media Ajax conference will also be made available via this blog in the coming weeks.

Posted 12th Feb, ‘08 | 2 Comments

@media 2008 San Francisco Launch

The @media 2008 San Francisco web site is live, and registrations are now open for the second @media event in the wonderful city.

Once again taking place before the London event, the speaker line-up is quite different to last year, but the quality and attention to detail that was so well received last time will return.

Early bird tickets are available until 21st March, and if you get in really quickly, there’s a further 10% launch day discount for bookings made today.

There’s a chance to win a robot dinosaur or wi-fi rabbit, too!

There’s plenty more to be revealed in the coming months, so stay tuned…

Posted 31st Jan, ‘08 | No Comments