Seattle MindCamp | April 26th, 2006
Alexei White and I are headed down to Seattle for MindCamp 2.0 this weekend this weekend (Sat April 29 noon until Sun April 30 noon). It should be a great time as there’s going to be lots of interesting people and sessions there. I propose some sessiosn that I’d like to lead:
A number of topics I think would be interesting and fun for the group.
- Usability benefits of AJAX. Talk about the benefits of
usability in web apps and also some of the commone pitfalls in AJAX UIs
(also how to avoid these pitfalls).- AJAX Showcase. Would be fun to look at whole bunch of cool
RIAs and their interfaces and discuss the associated design patterns
and they were decided on. There would be a lot of value in screen
capturing this sessiong for a blog or wiki. Wouldn’t have to be limited
to AJAX either, there’s lots of cool Flex and Flash stuff out there.
Even cool hybrid apps!- AJAX and the online Office. What’s the business for AJAX
applications? How would we benefit from a fully funcional online office
suite? Does it even make sense? How can we benefit from dropping the
document concept and focusing on the data. Get a sneak peak of AJAX
based excel app.
You can see all the topics suggested so far here.
Some interesting people and groups that I hope to meet and/or see again and chat with down there are: Corante, Brady from the O’reilly Radar, Scoble, Chris Pirillo, David Geller, Touchstone, Nancy White, Ponzi and I’m sure many more.
If you’re not going to make it but would still like to meet up while I’m in town drop me a line. Any other cannucks headed down from Vancouver? I have room in my car.
Big thanks to Gear Live Media and Andru Edwards for making this happen!
Technorati Tags: mindcamp2.0, seattle, barcamp, unconference, ajax, eba
April 28th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
fyi, your first link to alexei’s site is DOA…
April 28th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
fixed thanks! http://www.ajaxinfo.com
April 30th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Thanks for the Andre – Unfortunately the Touchstone Crew is o’seas so we can’t make it to all the fancy camps and conventions at the moment. Thanks for the shout out though 🙂
It will be great to catch up with all the people we have met online in real life sooner or later.
April 30th, 2006 at 7:37 am
so you are. got my wires crossed I guess. but it’s still cool stuff! Saw some of the new vista gadgets today. that’s pretty cool.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Great seeing you at Mind Camp 2.0. You also conducted a great Ajax talk. Look forward to your next one!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Good to see you as well David. Thanks. I’d like to hang out in Seattle more often and talk AJAX and other cool web tech stuff. It’s lots of fun there’s lots of smart people to bash ideas around with.