Marc Gear

I was at Future of Web Apps – London 2008 last week, and had a great time, spoke to loads of interesting people and drunk a lot of beer. This is a list of everything I learnt, and everything I foudn out I need to learn:

Polyvore community translation

XMPP

Everyone is hiring.

Everyone is hiring UX/UI people and PHP people.

pubsub

Excel Centre food sucks, and is horribly overpriced.

And its wireless connectivity blows too, especially when you have a tech conference and everyone and his dog has both a laptop, and an iPhone.

I should play with pinax

XRDS

Digg have some really cool uses for all that data they have.

portablecontacts.net

You can bundle AIR with your apps now.

KML

If you use maps you should be using the Mapstraction API

Mapnik

Meebo grew really fast.

Microsoft Surface looks neat, but had little real world application.

fireeagle

Facebook connect is sooo much nicer for users than 90% of the OpenSocial stuff.

But we should still all be using OpenSocial.

Long poll http requests

Even Adobe know their products are overpriced.

Mark Zuckerberg is great at answering around the question.

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