Excitement is building #Webstock12
Oooh only a few sleeps to go till my fav time of the year. Time to get my mind bent, expanded and blown.
I was going to “quickly” pick 2 or 3 of my favorite talks from the past couple of years, but now i sit with a list of at least 10 presentations that has had lasting impression on me. So for the full list of past presentations feel free to have a dig around through the Webstock Archives
So in attempt to keep the attention of the twitter an youtube generations i have a short description, but the videos are the full 30 min presentations sorry :)
Delivery Delight – Doug Bowman delivered a whole bunch of feel-good moments. We, as technology builders, must remember that users are human and engage on a human level and appeal to their emotions and passions, and not create barriers with our crazy web designs.
Web Performance Optimisation – Steve Souders has served time at institutions like Google, Yahoo and Creator of YSlow and my inspiration for chasing the performance dragon.
Elements of a Networked Urbanism – Adam Greenwood, was not quite sure what to make of his weird leather pants and designer-type glasses. Sooo not what i expected, but truly a moving look at what technology has already done to society and what is to come when our streetlights have got a ip address, or the manhole cover, or the toaster. He has a solid poke at the field of interactive, networked information-gathering, -processing, -storage and -display resources.
Your Business Plan Is Science Fiction – Annalee Newitz explanation was simple
Sci-Fi –> Laboratory –> Business
Aslo a striking point was how Sci-Fi prepared us to be ok with carrying a Android in our pockets.
Better, Stronger, Faster Failures – Nat Torkington taught us the secret weapon that is the strategic failure. The faster you fail (and learn from it) the faster you will win.
And a honarary mention to the other big hitters
Tom Coates – Time Out, the BBC and Yahoo!
Daniel Burka – digg, flickr, twitter and last.fm
And the big masters of modern javascript
John Resig – jquery
Thomas Fuchs – script.aculo.us
2012 Webstock Debrief coming soon…
