roundup: Future of Web Apps 2007 (day 2)

Posted on | February 21, 2007 |

fowa2007, day #2 - wifi is still sluggish & expensive.

nothing too breathtaking from Microsoft (Chris Wilson) and Adobe (Mark Anders), though the Flex-demo was kinda intriguing - flash is finally making sense for developers. the CEO (?) of Scrybe gave a short performance-comparison of actionscript 2 vs. 3, which also seemed kinda impressing. He should’ve demo’ed Scrybe though, to really show what Flex/Apollo can do (btw, my Scrybe-beta account still doesnt work ).

check out Twingly, a screensaver (Windows only) done by swedish students which visualizes blog-activity on a rotating globe…

Khoi Vinh (director of design for NYTimes.com) - avoid the “The Siren Call of Web 2.0″ (Web 2.0 - pros can’t get enough, users have no idea what it is!)… good talk on NYTimes’ design approaches & challenges, hopefully slides will be available…

Jonathan Rochelle (Google) - “Google Docs & Spreadsheets - the product name sucks, but at least nobody will be confused”.

Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone) - “thematic consistency - ensure that content provided by accessing a URI yields thematically coherent experience when accessed through different devices”. check http://dev.mobi, a developer-community focused on mobile webapps (take their survey and receive a 20 US$ iTunes gift-certificate).

Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP): “I don’t find joy in the process of programming. it’s kinda tedious & hard.”…great, geeky tech-talk. if you’re into performance measurement, check out http_load / valgrind / callgrind / Kcachegrind (prints nice execution-path trees). Rasmus on security: “the web is broken you can all go home now.”

and with these wise words I’m closing this post & and say goodbye fowa 2007 - we’ve had a blast!

 

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