WEB09

John Casasanta during his www.macheist.com...

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:59:23 +1200

John Casasanta during his www.macheist.com talk.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/web09/3448694793/

*All photos have been taken by Matt Morris http://www.mattmorris.co.nz/ and he has done an amazing job! Thanks Matt.

View photos online and update regularly on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/web09/

Blog Posts
National Business Review
http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/chris-keall/xero-ditches-google-ad-words-twitter
http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/chris-keall/met-boss-tumblr-next-big-thing-after-twitter

idealog
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/web09-here-we-come
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/cloud-opportunities-rod-drury
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/making-the-designerdeveloper-relationship-work-rubinsmith
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/designing-virtual-realism-dan-rubin
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/fake-it-till-you-make-it-rapid-prototyping-using-flash-phillip-fierlinger

Videos will be coming along on Vimeo soon.

MacHeist’s League of Extraordinary Dropouts Reinvents...

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:55:42 +1200

MacHeist’s League of Extraordinary Dropouts Reinvents Software Sales.

John Casasanta on the left is profiled by Wired.com about his extraordinary software bundle Macheist.
This year the Macheist bundle raised over $3 million dollars with a quarter of this going to charity.

At Web09 next week, John will be taking 2 sessions, one on Macheist and the second on his iPhone company TapTapTap.com

We are very excited to have John and think it is a perefect fit for Web09.

Read the full article here on wired. http://hurl.ws/1nqs

One of the cool features we are announcing today is the...

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:34:00 +1200

One of the cool features we are announcing today is the MagnumMac Expert Zone at Web09. This zone will be staffed with Mac Experts who will be able to assist you with any Mac question you have. Web09 is also featured on the MagnumMac homepage which is totally cool.

The expert zone will be available to all delegates, Friday and Saturday.

WEB09 Intro Video features on Typography Served This email...

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:53:32 +1200

WEB09 Intro Video features on Typography Served

This email arrived today and we are pretty excited to say that the Web09 intro video has been featured on www.typgraphyserved.com which features incredible work from creative professionals around the world.

Hello John,

I just wanted to notify you that one of your projects was just featured on typographyserved.com, one of Behance’s “Served” sites that we developed to further showcase the best projects in the Behance Network, within specific industries. Our editorial team features a small number of projects every day. With hundreds of options, we only pick a few that promote new thinking in the industry.

We also featured on “i love typography” blog in their weekly roundup.
http://ilovetypography.com/2009/04/05/yes-we-kern-the-week-in-typography-and-fonts/ (about half way down)

Official Web09 Introduction Video

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:36:16 +1300

Programme now online

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:17:00 +1300

The Web09 speakers programme is now online at http://www.web09.org/event.php. We have managed to add David Karp from www.tumblr.com who will be flying down from New York, US, to attend Web09. We are super-excited to have David, who has just been speaking at the SXSW festival.

We have also added Rod Drury, founder of NZX-listed and global online accounting software company www.xero.com. Rod has kindly accepted an invitation to kick Web09 off in the opening keynote.

Christian Schalk said he could not make it this year and has asked the lovely Pamela Fox from Google to replace him.

Hiroshi wont be able to make Web09 this year.

It’s now less than 30 days to get your Web09 ticket. Seating is limited, so don’t delay in getting your ticket!

WEB09 Advert in COMPUTERWORLD this week 16th Feb 2009.

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:08:00 +1300

WEB09 Advert in COMPUTERWORLD this week 16th Feb 2009.

WEB09, the User Experience Conference, welcomes Ryan Stewart, Andrew Spaulding, Dan Rubin

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:45:00 +1300

We are thrilled to add Ryan Stewart from Adobe USA to the WEB09 speaker list. Ryan does an amazing job talking about Adobe technologies and how they are used around the world. Ryan also has a great blog called The Universal Desktop on ZDNet that covers a wide array of internet technologies.

Andrew Spaulding is an Adobe Systems Engineer from Australia who specialises in Flex development. We also welcome Dan Rubin from Florida. He is coming down to balmy NZ to talk about jQuery and design. Dan has worked on many books, blogs and is very passionate about the web.

Sadly Biz Stone from Twitter and Michael Lopp will not be able to make our April 2009 date due to shareholder/work commitments.

If you are super-keen to attend Web09 and would like to bring members from your company, call John on 021 438 564 and ask about our group/company bookings.

Welcome John Casasanta from tap tap tap

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:47:00 +1300

This is an exciting annoucement — we have added John Casasanta, founder of taptaptap.com to the speaker line-up. Tap tap tap has a successful iPhone development studio, which has produced the apps “Where To”, “Tipulator” and “Classics”.

John is also the creator Macheist which is the number 1 Mac promotion site.

John also has a great blog that offers a lot of insight into iPhone development and marketing. He has a lot of knowledge around how to make great user interfaces and some of the processes that they go through.

Steve Smith from Ordered List joins Web09 speakers

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:36:00 +1300

Steve Smith has now been added to our excellent line-up of speakers for Web09.

Steve loves to make very clean, usable websites that are fun and inviting. Slicehost, PerfectShare and PFDebate are great examples of this.

He is also the co-founder of Sidebar Creative.

Steve is also an author and University of Notre Dame professor.

WEB09 is GO.

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:52:33 +1300

WEB09 is finally ready to go.

We have early-bird tickets on sale now but after 2008 you will have to pay the non early-bird price.

Ticket price December 2008 - $595 Ticket price from 1 January 2009 - $745

The ticket price includes full catering for the two days (excluding dinner) and a cocktail function on Friday 17 April.

With a focus on rich internet experiences, iPhone application development, communities, design and the people behind it, Web09 is sure to be the highlight of the year.

Confirmed speakers include:

Biz Stone from Twitter, Odeo, Blogger (USA) Michael Lopp, Author of Managing Humans (USA) Paul Burnett, Adobe Flash Evangelist (Australia) Tim Heuer, Programme Manager, Silverlight (USA) Corrina Barber, UX, Microsoft (USA) Karen Corby, Silverlight (USA) Arturo Toledo, UX Technical Product Manager (USA) Christian Schalk, developer advocate, Google (USA) Hiroshi Yasukawa, Mobile Trends (Japan) Philip Fierlinger, Head of Design, Xero (NZ) Karl von Randow, Cactuslab, iPhone (NZ) Aaron Davidson, SimWork, Google Android(NZ) Jarred Bishop, Interaction Designer/Developer (NZ)

We still have many more speakers to be announced, so stay tuned.

Date: Friday 17, Saturday 18 April 2009 Venue: SkyCity Convention Centre, Auckland.

Hope to see you in April!

The Web09 team.

New dates for Web08/09

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:10:27 +1200

Web08 has been moved forward to 17-18 April 2009 — that’s right, it is now Web09.

We decided to postpone the conference when we realised we couldn’t get all the speakers we wanted for September, and we wouldn’t settle for less than the best.

We are now delighted to let you know that we have an amazing line-up of techies and designers from the US and Japan. Among these are Biz Stone from Twitter; veteran Silicon Valley manager and blogger Michael Lopp, who currently works for Apple; designer Hiroshi Yasukaw from Japan; and Phillip Fierlinger from New Zealand’s own software-as-a-service success story, Xero.

We will keep you posted as we confirm more speakers.

We’ve also got a major software player onboard for an interesting deal. We’ll be able to tell you more soon.

The venue is the same — Sky City Convention Centre in Auckland. Jot down the new dates now, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 April 2009.

We hope to see you in April!

Biz Stone (twitter.com) and Michael Lopp (randsinrepose.com) confirmed

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:22:00 +1200

We are pleased and excited to announce that Biz Stone will be delivering a keynote and sidenote at WEB08 in September. Biz is the co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter and also helped make Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Biz has also published two books about social media.

We first met Michael Lopp at Webstock where he gave two captivating talks about design and product development, and we’re also excited to announce that he will be coming to WEB08 to present. Michael is a veteran Silicon Valley manager having wreaked havoc at companies such as Borland, Netscape, Apple, and a start-up you’ve never heard of. Michael writes under the nom de plume of “Rands” at the popular technology weblog Rands in Repose covering nerd culture, management insight, and gel pens. Michael lives in the redwood forests above Santa Cruz, California.

More to come soon. If you would like an early bird ticket, please register to join our early bird announcement list. We will email you as soon as early bird tickets go on sale, but these tickets will be sold in limited numbers so first in, first served.

WEB08 – Venue, Adobe*, Sponsor

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:39:00 +1200

We are very excited to announce that we have signed Computerworld as our primary media sponsor, and we’re in talks to get a second media sponsor signed which should not be to long off now.

In other news, we’re talking with Adobe’s USA-based Flash/Flex/AIR team, more details to come on this topic.

The venue has been finalised and is now SkyCity Convention Centre. After many visits to multiple venues we feel SkyCity offers the best facilities to WEB08 delegates and sponsors.

Site Live

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:37:00 +1200

On every new site, there is one post saying “shiny new site live”, this is that post.

Thanks Matthew from Cactuslab who has done such a wonderful design job on the WEB08 site.