A series of intriguing, 10-minute talks with one big idea. This one is packed. I’ll take it as a good sign. * Sheryl Maloney + Tyesha Snow, “Running the AppFactory: How to conceive and design 48 apps in 4 months” Foremost, you need Avery big team. Leadership to set the pace. Set in breaks, happy […]

Speaker: Brad Cohen The diffusion of innovation. 78 of Americans are on the Internet. 51% on Facebook. No longer just the risk takers. Does this mean that the Internet has jumped the shark? There may still be a place for “power users” on the Internet, but the default needs to be simple. Users just want […]

Speaker: Thor Muller A few minutes late being back from lunch … the main stage seemed like the easiest to sneak into. Thor, is actually a very good speaker – how serendipitous. Sugru story: http://sugru.com/ Very cool. Preparation – obsessive curiosity – notice the anomalies – forget what you know to be true There is […]

Speaker: Faruk Ates I am surprised that there are not more people in here. Alias problems: “I am webkit” – opera Webstrings from browsers make no sense. For the past decade, the tools really haven’t been helping us do things the right way. 2 good tools: – SASS (with compass) http://compass-style.org/ – LESS FrontPage – […]

Speaker: Phillip Kerman tinyurl.com/javascripthack Scope Hosting Closures Immediately invoked function Expressions (IIFE) Modules Book recommendation: – JavaScript patterns – JavaScript: the good parts. Get a tool with introspection. Komoto, WebStorm Tool with Lint (to check code) Jsfiddle – great place to play around with libraries Unit testing: do it Function expressions are equal to functions, […]

Speakers: Lyza Danger Gardner @lyzadanger, Jason Grigsby @grigs Um. I guess that I was supposed to bring a laptop… Signs of the apocalypse are everywhere. More mobile phones then people on planet. Winners of the previous technology cycle will not be the winners in the next round. – need to think about the number of […]

Responsive Web Design is Only the Beginning Speakers: Gino Zahnd, John Bragg Active notes: Pair up and grab a partner. Draw your partner in 30 seconds… Ouch. – what we mean by device class – how to use this in your everyday work Device capabilities – set of hardware/software factors that have the capability to […]

I was a bit too busy listening to take good notes, but here are a few that I wrote down :) Get off my lawn! 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 […]

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. How did we do it? 1) If you want to get more done, then do less – simple products, stick to one thing at a time – […]

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) […]