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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!

offline-synching calendar Scrybe (earlier coverage), generating a lot of noise with a demo-screencast published earlier, has been launched into closed beta today. while I’m still waiting for my account to be approved, TechCrunch confirms the core functionality everybody got so excited about. as supposed by many, Scrybe is a flash-based application. stay tuned for a detailed review!

watching their promotional video, Scrybe is going to be the next generation of online calendar-applications. more so, the dynamically zooming calendar views look slicker than any desktop schedule seen so far. besides common calendar functionality, Scrybe manages integrated tasklists and stores thoughts and web-snippets of all kind. the not-to-be-missed video demos the gorgeous user-interface, extended suppot for different timezones, impressive copy&paste import from office-applications (Microsoft Excel in particular) and - a bit oldschool but nonetheless handy - printing-capabilities.

while this all sounds (& looks) great, the best is yet to come: Scrybe promises seamless offline access, therefor overcoming current online office-apps’ major drawback. it’s not really clear how this offline mode & synchronisation will be implemented, but possible solutions would be a local desktop-application, a local proxy-server or some kind of flash storage (the latter being the most advanced & platform-independent approach - also, a commenter at Ajaxian pointed out the Scrybe is most likely a Flash/Flex-application).

beta-accounts should be available somewhere until the end of october, and according to the buzz I’m not the only one looking forward to get my hands on Scrybe