FOWA

The organisation of Future of WebApps is setting up a road show.

They will do 12 cities prior to the event on 3-5 october.
The previous one was a big hit, so the machine will run again this year.

Again an impressive list of speakers and attendees.

We will also try to be there again....

But first the road show. on the 17th september they will be here in Amsterdam in Cafe de Jaren,
Thanks to Robert Gaal of Wakoopa/blueace for that

Ryan Carson will do all the roadtrips.

A preview here:

netvibes solves widget platform problem?

In the growing interest for widgets, the need for a universal platform gets bigger by the day.

On fowa event Netvibes Tariq Krim announced a universal platform on the upcoming "coriander" release.

This is great , everyone who wants to build a widget first has to choose the single platform to build on, like yahoo, google, microsoft etc. Netvibes release of the universal platform can fix this problem.

And what we saw on the FOWA presentation looks promising.

This will solve the problem for the standards of vista, google and mac for now. The update later on will include yahoo and others.

Tariq also mentioned that netvibes will be open sourcing the platform so any widget platform can be included.

A big advantage for the widgets and well done by netvibes.

here are some screenshots:

Future of Web Apps

We just arrived back from the FOWA in Londen.
2 days without internet, tuesday we decided to buy internet from BTopenzone, expensive and pretty worthless. But we managed!
The FOWA was well set up, a big lounge and a large presentation room.
The first day started with an interesting presentation from Michael Arrington, he talked about new ventures, how to start your own and the highlighted some interesting developments like Adobe Apollo. Apollo is a new platform where designers and developers can create outside the browser boundaries. So you can make desktop applications, even the possibillity to use them on and offline.
Later there was a presentation from Mark Anders from Adobe. Unfortunately he did not show very much about the upcoming Apollo project. On the onther hand he showed some nice things about the possibilities of Flex and the new Flash9. The contribution of Digg was also an interesting one.
There were many designers and developers at the event, we had some nice conversations about the way the web is evolving. And we got to show Adobe, Aol and Chris from microsoft and we got a "wow" effect...!
It was fun, unfortunately the upcoming futureofwebdesign is sold out!