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I attended the WebVisions 2005 event in Portland, OR this past Friday.  The sessions of note I took in were “Looking Beyond the Desktop” by Molly Holzschlag, “Time is Money… Can You $pare a Minute?” by Chris Bond, “Blogging Your Portfolio” by DL Byron,    “Why Simplicity Matters (and Why it’s so Difficult to Achieve)” by BJ Fogg and the keynote “Why We (Still) Love the Web” by Stewart Butterfield, founder of Flickr.com. 

  

Overall I think it was a great conference, I met many interesting people.  It was good to see that there were many talks on usability, which is a very important topic more developers should be aware of.  But it was also quite hype driven and I couldn’t help but think some of the things I heard were reminiscent of the dot.bomb days, you know business models based on users and passion.  I’ll post more notes and thoughts soon.  Stewart had something like “obligatory mention of AJAX and tagging in his opening slide” which was a kind of funny cool way of playing the hype.  However with as much press as AJAX has had recently there was very little mention about it that I saw…