Future of Web Apps, Miami 2010
Carsonified’s Future of Web Apps is in Miami this week. While I’m not attending any of the workshops today, I did attend the day-long general sessions yesterday and recorded my audio and notes using my new Livescribe Pulse Smartpen. I’ve embedding the recordings for almost all sessions below. When you hit play, the notes will play back with the audio, turning green as they were written in realtime. You can skip around the presentations using your mouse and clicking on any part of the notes – the audio will sync to where it was while I was recording the notes.
Opening remarks
Ryan Carson, Carsonified
Mobile Roadie Demo
Michael Schneider, Mobile Roadie
The 10 Golden Principles for Successful Web Apps
Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
In this session, Fred will share 10 vital principles that anyone working on a web app should know. His experience with Twitter, FeedBurner, Etsy, Delicious, Tumblr, Boxee, FourSquare, Meetup and more will prove invaluable to everyone attending.
Marketing your Web App – The Future of Brands Online
Alex Hunter, @cubedweller
Alex Hunter takes you through the DOs and DO NOTs of developing a powerful and positive brand both on the Web and in the office. He’ll also look at the state of the VC market and how you can turn your idea into something that actually exists and makes money.
The Sky Is The Limit
Osama Bedier, PayPal
Mobile commerce grew at an astonishing rate in 2009, and applications were a key element of driving that growth. Osama Bedier of PayPal will discuss how mobile money and the Wallet in the Cloud will help eliminate mobile payments barriers and bring m-commerce to the masses in the next decade.
Your Social Media Strategy Won’t Save You
Tara Hunt, Horse Pig Cow
Being friendly and helpful on Facebook and Twitter won’t make your app succeed. In this valuable session, Tara will explain how to think ‘customer centrically’, put user happiness first, reward enthusiasts, learn not launch and raise whuffie. She’ll also explain the difference between ‘Influencers’ and ‘Enthusiasts’ and why it’s important to reach the latter. Don’t miss it!
What’s going on with open source / standards?
A Conversation with Ryan Carson and David Recordon, Facebook
Speedy, Stable, and Secure: Better Web Applications Through Functional Languages
Alex Payne, Twitter
A whirlwind tour of the benefits of functional programming languages and how you can put them to work in your web application’s architecture. Learn how to make the most of a rich type system, immutable data structures, and other features of languages like Scala, Erlang, Haskell, and OCaml. Find out where to get started with functional languages, and how they stack up when it comes to web app development.
Keynote/Q&A
Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV
Most of you know Gary’s Schpeel! At this year’s FOWA Miami Gary wants to try something new! In this session he will be taking questions from the floor answering anything you have to throw at him. So get ready – It really is a session that could change your life forever!
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