FOWA aftermath
On Wednesday I spent the whole day at the Excel Center for the Future of Web Apps Conference and it was simply awesome!
I paid only £5 for a ticket which granted me access to the expo floor where all the stands are, and of course the Live Diggnation filming afterwards but not access to any of the talks.
The Conference
One of the most surprising things of the conference was the amount of companies using Ruby on Rails, at least half of the people we spoke to were using it including Wakoopa, Meecard, AOL, Kickapps and New Bamboo to name a few.
Every body else was using either PHP or ASP.net except Zoho.. when I asked what technology they were using I was told “HTML and CSS”…
Of course I was handing out TeaBass Moo Cards left, right and center (mainly because I want to order some new ones with the new style header on it)
I also met up with Nik (from TUAW/Download Squad/RealMac Software fame) at the conference, he managed to get us in with the AOL guys and scored us some free drinks at the Diggnation aftershow party.
Diggnation
The Live Diggnation Filming was by far the highlight of the day, diggnation is great anyway but the guys were stoked about being in London and infront of the largest Live crowd ever, loads of great jokes and right at the end the camera began to run out of tape (this was after over an hour of filming) and a panto-like “look behind you” sequence by everyone kicked off, damn funny!
I snapped a couple of photos and the one above was definitely the money shot, it got dugg as well.
The rest of the photos are in this set.
A great time was had by all and I can’t wait for the next conference which is Mac Live Expo at the end of the month, see you there!
Update: The Diggnation Episode is now available for download.
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