I was a bit too busy listening to take good notes, but here are a few that I wrote down :)
Connections
1) stuff
2) people
He’s doing a “logo dump” starting back in 1995. Showing the old gap between consumers and producers.
APIs – Crazy Go Nuts!
You don’t have to obsess over code. You are free to focus on content.
Scott Porad – CTO of the Cheezburger Network
It’s not about the cats, it’s about people.
15-20,000 pictures every day submitted. Try to launch a site a week.
1) If you want to get more done, then do less – simple products, stick to one thing at a time – Swarm method.
Being busy != being productive.
2) Eschew long term plans, but keep long term vision.
There are good ideas and then there are ideas you care about.
Wow, the speaker is great. Who would have thought the the cheeseburger network had such focused, intelligent, charismatic and poetic leadership?
The Future: Web 3.0
The web is going where the world has always been.
“Red is not a color”
There are so many shades of red – each with it’s own emotion.
Know the essence of why your product strikes an emotional cord.
Ward Cunningham – from AboutUs
What is a link?
“something you click to take you somewhere”
“a relation to resources, possibly 0″ – Ray Fielding
Wiki turns the zero link (red) as an invitation.
Blue – 1
Red – 0
Orange – 2+ (ambiguous, Portland OR vs Portland ME vs Portland Cement)
Social Jargon:
1) glossary of words.
2) using that word automagically links to it.
3) users learn words as they cross them.
4) words spread as they are used.
Disambiguated links use meta to track and color to show context.
Tracks word usage. Who used it first? How did if change?
James Reffell
Background: eBay, yahoo, usable security systems.
Identifiers: alphanumeric strings that relate to individuals.
Great story of how search was bringing “facebook login” to a ReadWriteWeb article. Best part is that many of the confused users were already logged in via Facebook connect on RWW. So, they succeeded – but not in a meaningful way…
Login/out is becoming a fuzzy concept.
People share computers and account – if you plan for it or not.
Average user has about 25 passwords. Average password was used for 6 different sites.
Username or email? Big systems end up using both.
Sign in vs login? Sign is slightly better.
Web form design – good book.
Very good speaker. Very good talk.
@jreffel
designcult.org
Dave Selden – doing it yourself
Up early to talk about beer!
Started with a home brewing blog in 2005 – BS Brewing.
How do you process the 2200 beers at the American Beer festival?
- Scout book form factor
- $1600 down, didn’t really realize the costs.
- Not the fist with the idea, but first to follow through.
Dave opens a beer (9:30am) to shoe us how the rate system works.
Started by sending samples to bloggers. 90% ended up writing post. It helped get the word out, but did not add a lot to sales. However, it also helped get the word out to conventional media.
- 7000 books sold!
- Beer can be tax deductible!
- E-commerce is easy, setting the price is not.
Great set of Q&A. Wish that I had a question… Really wanted a book. Might have to pick one up the old fashion way.
Agnieszka Gasparska – Kiss Me I’m Polish
Side note: My answer? “Yes”, but that’s why they didn’t ask me to do the keynote :)
Aesthetic and purpose can overlap.
As can, art and math.
And creativity and structure.
Starts a project by asking the client for a book of visual references – sometimes these can hundreds of pages/images.
For projects that will continue to develop – how does the design template cope. Too little design leaves the experience flat. Too much, and it overpowers the content. The template should be a stage.
Easy is hard – with minimal design, there is less to hide behind.
No style is the new style.
“everything should be as simple as possible, bit no simpler” – Albert Einstein
Christopher Fahey – the Internet is not made of robots.
If you have glasses or use a computer to do simple addition – then YOU are a cyborg!
However, we can build better products by thinking of the as human.
We tend to think that our tech have human qualities anyway.
Wow – I just realized that the room (one of the larger ones) is packed. Standing room only.
The 3 qualia of human products:
Elegance is the new efficiency.
If we don’t humanize our products , our products will mechanize us.
Came back a little late from lunch. Looking around, but haven’t spotted my friends from Metrofiets.
Looks like they are doing rapid presentations.
#1 The first presenter ( from bikehugger) just mentioned my tallbike locked up out front.
#2 Brian hates bike thieves. Created stolenbikeregistry.com Future? Chip bikes like we chip pets.
#3 Michael – bike computer. Awareness, safety, fun. Hackable! velosynth.com
#4 April – from treehugger. 4 men for every 1 women bike commuter. Fashion is the new trend. Cycle chic!
#5 Matt – cyclocross. Fall/winter exercise. Steeplechase!
#6 Greg – bike safety. Moving people and freight. Portland has 2000 bike events each year.
#7 Brian – green goose. Games that use sensors to compete. Bit of an ad presentation, but still cool tech.
#8 Lea – does one thing really matter? Bottom line? Yes, it does. Every day one thing (edot). Dots add up to donation dollars.
#9 David – bikehugger. Top mobile apps for bikes. Very nice.
#10 Shawn – typography of the bicycle. Strange topic. Great images!
Hey! What happened to the MF boys?
First session and I’m back with Tom who gave the class yesterday.
And now to server-side js!
About half the room uses php, almost everyone uses js. Advantage #1 – lots of developers already have experience. #2 – same code base on client and server.
Lots of run times to choose from. V8, spider monkey, rhino.
No DOM for you server-side.
V8 is ECMAscript (a subset/diversion of js). JS has a few extra features: E4X, let scope block, generators, generator expressions.
Common js – set of standards for ssjs. Includes modules, file systems, …
Application Frameworks
Narwhal: most complete implementation of common js.
Jack/jsgi: js gateway interface.
NodeJS: most popular (by far).
Form validation is a good example where you have to do the same task server and client side. Why not use the same code?
Great information, but Tom needs to show some more sexy demos.
Just sat down for the keynote with Luke Williams. First up though, is Brett with a few words – turns out this is the 10th year for the event.
Note to self: tag on twitter #wv2010
Now for Luke…
“how the weak win wars”- a book I need to pick up.
Outsiders can help break up internal log jams.
We are all born creative, so WTF happens? Our brain works on patterns. This is good, but it can put us in assembly line thinking.
We are dealing with misled that were conceived in a past age. Time to turn
things upside down to see if they look any better.
More creativity often goes into the advertising then the accrual products.
Great examples of product expectation vs gap: crocks, red bull, wii…
Gap innovation always leaves the industry scrambling to catch up.
