Perth rocked Webjam9 last night. Over a hundred people joined us in a sweet venue to watch 14 fantastical presentations to top off the fantastic first ever Edge of the Web conference day. We saw everything from Chris Messina’s maniacal call to rise up and defend our open web against the undead army of The Facebook to Gary Barber’s brilliant new programming language derived from the gestures of Edge of the Web attendees.
A giant thank you must go to all our sponsors: Adobe, Edge of the Web, Linkartist Multimedia, Australian Web Industry Association, directSMS, radharc, Norg Media, 5 Senses Coffee, and acidlabs. I’m sure you’ve heard this many times, but that’s because it’s true: we cannot hold these events without the support of these sponsors. And it was particularly gratifying to see so many members of the Perth community rally around to support us with their microsponsorship. Thanks, everyone, you rule!
Third place on the evening went to Richard Johnson for his charming and funny tale of how the attempted courting of a beautiful girl in Poland that led to the creation of the 43 language online phrasebook, Lingopal. Darcy Laycock came second with his fantastically cunning reworking of Twitter over the top of an IRC engine, with automatic channels based on #hashtags and a whole raft of sweet features. I can't wait until he releases Kookaburra! The top slot of the night went to a man who thought presenting one webapp in three minutes was too easy and doubled down. Matt Didcoe presented on a project built over a weekend for the last Rails Rumble, SoundFolder.com; and his own When’s the next fucking bus?, which he assures us is coming soon to a browser near you.
It was an amazing and inspiring night. A huge thanks to Perth for having us. You guys rock! People’s photos and tweets are already finding their way to the event page for Webjam 9, and yours can too if you tag them but for now, we'll leave you with a list of all the presentations, in order:
- Websledge 2: return of the sledge? — Nick Cowie
- webTunes — Myles Eftos
- Sharing the web with Buzka — Jinnan Cai
- My Festival Planner — Kay Smoljak
- SoundFolder.com & When’s the next fucking bus? — Matt Didcoe
- How Trade Me sold for $750m — Lance Wiggs
- Facebook without Facebook — Chris Messina
- Generating sites with Hackless — Colin Campbell-McPherson
- Search Engine Social — Bret Treasure
- When Twitter met IRC — Darcy Laycock
- The Code — Gary Barber
- CSS menus — David L Morris
- Introducing Lingopal — Richard Johnson
- You Want To Filter My Internet? — Richard Giles
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Thanks for the write up @lachlanhardy, will have to make it to Webjam sometime very soon. I enjoyed the Webjam9 experience vicariously through tweets this time, and from the list of presenters above, it looks like I have some awesome new people/feeds to follow/subscribe to!