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Web Apps: A Trillion Tiny Transactions
Mick Liubinskas
18-October-2007 WSG Sydney meeting
Transcript
Duration: 20:00 - File size: 6.12 MB
Whether you're trying to make money from advertising, subscription or the Google Flip, the value of your product, and your company is normally made up lots of little bits of value. How do you maximise the value, minimise the friction of the transaction, and let the transactions roam free?
Get a Second Life!
Jo Kay
18-October-2007 WSG Sydney meeting
Transcript
Duration: 49:06 - File size: 11.23 MB
Second Life is an online 3D virtual world developed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab. It provides an immersive environment where users are able to create a digital character or 'avatar' and interact with people from around the world. Second Life also provides a platform for interactions and experiences which allow business, public, education and not-for-profit organisations to connect with their clients and communties in exciting new ways.
Ambient Personalization (Presentation 2 of August meeting)
Scott Parsons
02-August-2007 WSG Sydney meeting
Transcript
Duration: 29:34 - File size: 7.07 MB
Ambient Personalization: Applying what we can learn about a user's (and groups of users) behaviour, to improving their, and by extension everyone's, experience of a site.
Thinking Outside the Web (Presentation 1 of August meeting)
Christy Dena
02-August-2007 WSG Sydney meeting
Transcript
Duration: 39:29 - File size: 9.32 MB
Thinking Outside the Web: How the Entertainment Industry is Integrating All Media and Why
What Has Ajax Done For Us Anyway? (medium quality)
James Edwards (Brothercake)
09-February-2007 WSG Melbourne meeting
Presentation slides
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 34:07 - File size: 31.24 MB
James talks about appropriate (and inappropriate) uses of Ajax, and advises developers to follow the principles of "accessibility first, then usability, then aesthetics".
Presentation Mind Control
Paul Fenwick
29-June-2006 WSG Melbourne meeting
Duration: 22:34 - File size: 4.99 MB
Paul Fenwick from Perl Training Australia gives some humorous as well as useful and practical dirty tricks that you can play on an audience, in order to convince them that you are a good presenter.
Web Patterns
John Allsopp
04-May-2006 WSG Melbourne meeting
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Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 36:00 - File size: 6.18 MB
John Allsopp introduces the concept of a pattern language for the Web, with examples and discussion.
Accessibility - WCAG 2.0
Gian Sampson-Wild
07-April-2006 WSG Sydney meeting
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 55:08 - File size: 12.62 MB
Gian Sampson-Wild talked about how WCAG 2 will affect web designers and developers. Gian Sampson-Wild, both Managing Director and Senior Accessibility Specialist at PurpleTop has been working in the accessibility arena since 1998. In 2000 she joined the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and has been active in developing WCAG 2.0 ever since. Gian is also widely known for her Purpletop accessibility tool and
for her work with the Commonwealth Games over the last two years.
Accessibility - WCAG 2.0 and HREOC
Bruce Maguire
07-April-2006 WSG Sydney meeting
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 49:56 - File size: 11.43 MB
Bruce Maguire, from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) talked about WCAG 2.0 and HREOC. Bruce Maguire is most famous for his role in the court case against SOCOG in 2000. However, Bruce has been involved in the field of information access for people with a print disability for more than 20 years. He has been President of the Round table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities Inc., Chair of the Australian Braille Authority, and served on numerous state, national and international committees. Bruce is currently a Policy and Project Officer in the Disability Rights Unit of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, (HREOC), where he has primary responsibility for issues related
to information access, such as copyright, access to tertiary materials, telecommunications, and web accessibility.
Let's All Jump On The AJAX Bandwagon
Cameron Adams
06-April-2006 WSG Melbourne meeting
Presentation slides
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 55:45 - File size: 12.76 MB
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) gives web pages the ability to act as desktop applications using invisible data communication and seamless refreshing of individual page elements. This has the potential to either ruin the Web or propel it into a new era.
Cameron Adams introduces the technology behind AJAX, explores its pros and cons, and discusses current best practices for its development.
Minor microphone problems at the start, but worth persisting with!
Button: The Forgotten Element
Nick Cowie
30-March-2006 WSG Perth meeting
Presentation slides Audio Transcript; S5 Presentation
Transcript
Duration: 21:34 - File size: 4.94 MB
Nick Cowie re-introduces the oft-forgotten button element and demonstrates its role in accessible, cross-browser, stylish forms.
Accessible Business Online
Alexandra Graham
30-March-2006 WSG Perth meeting
Presentation slides Audio Transcript
Transcript
Duration: 9:46 - File size: 2.24 MB
Alex Graham from Cadmium gives a short introduction to what accessibility is and what it means to web developers and web clients.
Web Analytics
Hurol Inan
02-March-2006 WSG Canberra meeting
Presentation slides (1.48MB PDF file)
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 1:02:17 - File size: 14.26 MB
Hurol Inan is a Sydney based web analytics consultant. Hurol is the author of 'Measuring the success of your website' and 'Search analytics: a guide to analyzing and optimizing website search engines'. He teaches web analytics courses both independently and at Sydney University's Continuing Education Centre. Amongst other things, Hurol's presentation to the Canberra WSG will cover: introduction to web analytics, web analytics for government agencies, how to successfully report web analytics findings to senior management and how web analytics can ensure web sites have a good ROI.
Web Analytics
Alex Fahey
02-March-2006 WSG Canberra meeting
Presentation slides (832kb PowerPoint presentation)
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 41:46 - File size: 9.56 MB
Alex Fahey is a Canberra based web site developer and consultant. His presentation to the Canberra WSG will ask and answer the question: who is out there? His presentation will cover: current Australian Internet usage, statistics problems with these statistics, such as browser type spoofing techniques to track visitor usage without using a commercial statistics package, discussion about which technologies we should still support, e.g. should we still support IE4.0?
Introduction to Character Encoding (Part 2)
Richard Ishida (W3C)
09-February-2006 WSG Melbourne meeting
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Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 42:09 - File size: 9.65 MB
W3C Internationalisation Lead Richard Ishida talks about the different character encoding options available, and how the encoding you choose to use can impact a user's experience of your site in different locales, from a technical and cultural perspective.
Introduction to Internationalisation (Part 1)
Richard Ishida (W3C)
09-February-2006 WSG Melbourne meeting
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Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 1:15:39 - File size: 17.32 MB
W3C Internationalisation Lead Richard Ishida provides an entertaining and easily digested overview of the internationalisation issues web designers and developers should be thinking of when building sites, including a description of the difference between internationalisation and localisation.
Page Source Order and Accessibility OzeWAI 2005
Roger Hudson and Russ Weakley
09-December-2005
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Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 1:29:09 - File size: 20.41 MB
Roger Hudson and Russ Weakley presenting to OzeWAI 2005 at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
Round-cornered pull-out quotes TAFE
Russ Weakley
01-December-2005
Duration: 35:37 - File size: 8.15 MB
Russ Weakley discusses creating round-cornered pull-out quotes using CSS. Presentation to the TAFE Sydney Institute.
The role of the W3C
Dean Jackson
11-November-2005 WSG Canberra meeting
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 43:07 - File size: 9.87 MB
Dean Jackson from the W3C talks about Web Standards and the role of the W3C. A PodCast of the WSG Canberra meeting, Friday November 11 2005.
Innovating On Top Of Standards
Kevin Yank
10-November-2005 WSG Melbourne meeting
Presentation slides
Duration: 41:32 - File size: 9.51 MB
SitePoint.com technical director Kevin Yank explores some of the recent bright, new ideas in Web development that have used an established standard as the basis for something original and exciting. A PodCast of the WSG Melbourne meeting, Thursday November 10 2005.
Radio National's PodCasting Initiative
Janet Parker
10-November-2005 WSG Sydney meeting
Presentation slides (1.7MB PDF)
Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 1:00:34 - File size: 13.87 MB
Janet Parker from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation talks about ABC Radio National's PodCasting initiative. A PodCast of the WSG Sydney meeting, Thursday November 10 2005.
PodCasting a major event
Maxine Sherrin
10-November-2005 WSG Sydney meeting
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Event Photos (Flickr)
Duration: 38:49 - File size: 8.89 MB
Maxine Sherrin from Westciv and Web Essentials talks about PodCasting WE05. A PodCast of the WSG Sydney meeting, Thursday November 10 2005.
Mobile Devices; Examined Lightly (Low Quality)
Colin Morris
11-October-2005 WSG Brisbane meeting
Duration: 21:11 - File size: 19.40 MB
Sound quality is average as this is our first attempt and we used the inbuilt mic of a Powerbook. A PodCast of the WSG Brisbane meeting, Tuesday October 11 2005.
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