Dan's Blog (2.0) » fowa09 fowa http://www.torgo.com/blog Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:32:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 FOWA Badges Then and Now http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/10/fowa-badges-then-and-now.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/10/fowa-badges-then-and-now.html#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:26:33 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/?p=406 My FOWA 2009 Conference BadgeTwo years ago, I opined that Carsonified knew how to put on events like nobody else in the business. Two years later, it’s still true. I just attended a day of Future of Webapps London and I have to say – it was a great, inspiring event. I’m very impressed at how Ryan and team are able to put together a program of such good speakers, drawn from a range of backgrounds, and presenting across a range of topics (both technical, such as Twitter’s front-end coder Britt SelvitelleDustin Diaz waxing on about JavaScript’s relationship to Corn, and cocaine and “big idea” like the Guardian’s Chris Thorpe talking about the future of online news media) and somehow it all fits together and works brilliantly!

Another highlight was Bruce Lawson’s talk on HTML5 which got a vigorous round of applause from the (800+!) attendees.

Anyway, Carsonified’s badges, which I gushed over in 2007, have also evolved as the company has evolved. See a picture of my badge in-line. Attendees wrote in their own badges this time, which no-doubt saved them some money but also enabled everyone to customize. I took advantage of some “brain” handy stickers to write in tags for topics I’m currently thinking about.

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