Fowa : Highlights of The Future of Web Apps

Category internet | Permalink | 22. February 2007

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Yesterday was the second day of FOWA (got a third day of workshops today), and I’ve gotta say … it has been so fun!

We’re going to be giving away all the conference audio and presentations (pending approval from speakers). Stay tuned here and I’ll let you know when they’re ready.

The program

We worked extremely hard on the program and I think it came out very well.

Based on browsing the blogosphere, it seems that the majority of the attendees agree with me (Read/Write Web, 23 Musings, David Mytton, Alex Little, Digital Telepathy, Tim Anderson, Izeo and Femmaissance) and a few that didn’t (Jonathan Mulvihill and Meg Pickard).

Big announcements by digg and Netvibes

In addition to the quality talks by the speakers we also had two big announcements that happened at the event and I was delighted to see the coverage on the blogosphere. The two biggies that where announced:

Kevin Rose announced that digg is going to support OpenID
Tariq Krim announced the new version of Netvibes (with cross-platform widget compatibility) and that they would also support Open

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