Webjam 8 mixes it up!

Hot damn, last night was good!

Webjam 8 went off on every level possible. We smashed all records of previous events with approximately 350 attendees packed into an awesome venue to watch 19 amazing presentations. We saw everything from Opera’s new debugging capabilities to a cunning bookmarklet for doing mapping without leaving the page.

A massive thank you must go to all our sponsors: Adobe, Campaign Monitor, 2Vouch, Fatpublisher, Edge of the Web, Pollenizer, Happener, Free Australia Wireless, Doing Words, Five Senses Coffee, and Meld. Wow. That's a hell of a list! We could not have had this event without their support or the support of all the incredible people who gave their time to help us on the night and with the site.

Third place on the evening went to Dmitry Baranovskiy for his incredible display of live coding a rotatable, reflected image (that works in all major browsers) in his Raphaël vector graphics JS library. Diana Mounter came second with her inspiring and hilarious rapid-fire explanation of what we need to do to help our governments delivery sexy and useful online services. Both were utterly fantastic presentations, and the rankings for the top 3 places were within just two SMS votes each, but the big winners on the night were Mr Speaker and Henry Tapia. Mr Speaker demonstrated their completely client-side cross-fade YouTube mixing tool, Turn Tubelist, with Henry contributing from somewhere in the UK.

This was easily the most mindblowingly awesome Webjam ever and we'll have lots more goodness from the night, including video, up on the site soon. Some photos and tweets are already finding their way to the event page for Webjam 8, but for now, we'll leave you with a list of all the presentations, in order:

1. Using twitter for business — Nick Cowie
2. PAX javascript framework — Mikkel Bergmann
3. Dragonflies eat bugs — Charles McCathieNevile
4. What Cheeses You Off? — Lindsay Evans
5. Folksonomy Fun: Assistive Keywording UI — Geoff Bowers
6. Mapanui — Jean-Jacques Halans
7. How I build cool stuff for government (and I'm not a backender) — Diana Mounter
8. The State of ECMAScript — Douglas Crockford
9. The next BIG thing on the internet — Myles Byrne
10. Web master- cuts faster (Turn Tubelist) — Mr Speaker & Henry Tapia
11. Tweetbeer — Matt Allen & Lachie Cox
12. uTag — Kim Heras
13. Practical Application Of A JavaScript Finite State Machine/Theorem Prover — James McParlane
14. Connecting hardware to Flex — Justin Mclean
15. Cool things to do with Opera 9.5 & 9.6 — Andreas Bovens
16. Flickr Commons then & now — Paul Hagon
17. Raphaël — the JavaScript Library — Dmitry Baranovskiy
18. sharing knowledge in the IT world — Enrico Teotti
19. PhoneReel — Jonathan Conway