Evan Williams on TED.com
The guys from TED have posted an interesting presentation by Evan Williams on their blog. Evan is has co-founded several web startups, namely Blogger and Twitter. In his talk, he explains the principle behind twitter and offers some insight in how the service was shaped by its users.
The Video can be seen here: Evan Williams on TED.com
Last weekend, a special event took place: The first edition of <head> Conference. In case you haven't heard of it yet - <head> 2008 was a web conference that took place on the web, or as the organizers kept pointing out, everywhere.
Paul Boeg "live" at <head> Conference
There were some local venues, so called "hubs", were attendees could gather to follow the talks. Apart from that, people joined the conference online - both attendees and speakers: Instead of making you come to the web conference, let's make the web conference come to you.
The three-day conference covered a broad range of topics, such as community building, information graphics, etc. but the focus was clearly on web design and (frontend) development. (more...)
The guys at A List Apart are curious to learn a little more about you. They are calling for developers, designers and everyone else in the industry to answer 58 questions on their educational background, working conditions and a bunch of other topics.
Take the survey at aneventapart.com/webdesignsurvey!
Close to 33,000 web professionals took last year's survey – the results were pretty interesting. The collected data is available to everybody: Apart from a nicely designed PDF you can also download the raw data and use it for whatever you want.
By the way, the German web professionals association WebKrauts did a similar study in January. Although only about 2,800 people took this survey, the results might also be interesting to you if you're working in Germany.
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