WEB09, The User Experience Web Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 17-18 April 2009

John Casasanta during his www.macheist.com talk.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/web09/3448694793/

*All photos have been taken by Matt Morris http://www.mattmorris.co.nz/ and he has done an amazing job! Thanks Matt.

View photos online and update regularly on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/web09/

Blog Posts
National Business Review
http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/chris-keall/xero-ditches-google-ad-words-twitter
http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/chris-keall/met-boss-tumblr-next-big-thing-after-twitter

idealog
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/web09-here-we-come
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/cloud-opportunities-rod-drury
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/making-the-designerdeveloper-relationship-work-rubinsmith
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/designing-virtual-realism-dan-rubin
http://idealog.co.nz/blog/ben-kepes/fake-it-till-you-make-it-rapid-prototyping-using-flash-phillip-fierlinger

Videos will be coming along on Vimeo soon.

Posted 18 April 2009

MacHeist’s League of Extraordinary Dropouts Reinvents Software Sales.

John Casasanta on the left is profiled by Wired.com about his extraordinary software bundle Macheist.
This year the Macheist bundle raised over $3 million dollars with a quarter of this going to charity.

At Web09 next week, John will be taking 2 sessions, one on Macheist and the second on his iPhone company TapTapTap.com

We are very excited to have John and think it is a perefect fit for Web09.

Read the full article here on wired. http://hurl.ws/1nqs

Posted 8 April 2009

One of the cool features we are announcing today is the MagnumMac Expert Zone at Web09. This zone will be staffed with Mac Experts who will be able to assist you with any Mac question you have. Web09 is also featured on the MagnumMac homepage which is totally cool.

The expert zone will be available to all delegates, Friday and Saturday.

Posted 7 April 2009

WEB09 Intro Video features on Typography Served

This email arrived today and we are pretty excited to say that the Web09 intro video has been featured on www.typgraphyserved.com which features incredible work from creative professionals around the world.

Hello John,

I just wanted to notify you that one of your projects was just featured on typographyserved.com, one of Behance’s “Served” sites that we developed to further showcase the best projects in the Behance Network, within specific industries. Our editorial team features a small number of projects every day. With hundreds of options, we only pick a few that promote new thinking in the industry.

We also featured on “i love typography” blog in their weekly roundup.
http://ilovetypography.com/2009/04/05/yes-we-kern-the-week-in-typography-and-fonts/ (about half way down)

Posted 5 April 2009

Official Web09 Introduction Video

Posted 30 March 2009

Programme now online

The Web09 speakers programme is now online at http://www.web09.org/event.php. We have managed to add David Karp from www.tumblr.com who will be flying down from New York, US, to attend Web09. We are super-excited to have David, who has just been speaking at the SXSW festival.

We have also added Rod Drury, founder of NZX-listed and global online accounting software company www.xero.com. Rod has kindly accepted an invitation to kick Web09 off in the opening keynote.

Christian Schalk said he could not make it this year and has asked the lovely Pamela Fox from Google to replace him.

Hiroshi wont be able to make Web09 this year.

It’s now less than 30 days to get your Web09 ticket. Seating is limited, so don’t delay in getting your ticket!

Posted 18 March 2009

WEB09 Advert in COMPUTERWORLD this week 16th Feb 2009.

Posted 16 February 2009

WEB09, the User Experience Conference, welcomes Ryan Stewart, Andrew Spaulding, Dan Rubin

We are thrilled to add Ryan Stewart from Adobe USA to the WEB09 speaker list. Ryan does an amazing job talking about Adobe technologies and how they are used around the world. Ryan also has a great blog called The Universal Desktop on ZDNet that covers a wide array of internet technologies.

Andrew Spaulding is an Adobe Systems Engineer from Australia who specialises in Flex development. We also welcome Dan Rubin from Florida. He is coming down to balmy NZ to talk about jQuery and design. Dan has worked on many books, blogs and is very passionate about the web.

Sadly Biz Stone from Twitter and Michael Lopp will not be able to make our April 2009 date due to shareholder/work commitments.

If you are super-keen to attend Web09 and would like to bring members from your company, call John on 021 438 564 and ask about our group/company bookings.

Posted 4 February 2009

Welcome John Casasanta from tap tap tap

This is an exciting annoucement — we have added John Casasanta, founder of taptaptap.com to the speaker line-up. Tap tap tap has a successful iPhone development studio, which has produced the apps “Where To”, “Tipulator” and “Classics”.

John is also the creator Macheist which is the number 1 Mac promotion site.

John also has a great blog that offers a lot of insight into iPhone development and marketing. He has a lot of knowledge around how to make great user interfaces and some of the processes that they go through.

Posted 15 December 2008

Steve Smith from Ordered List joins Web09 speakers

Steve Smith has now been added to our excellent line-up of speakers for Web09.

Steve loves to make very clean, usable websites that are fun and inviting. Slicehost, PerfectShare and PFDebate are great examples of this.

He is also the co-founder of Sidebar Creative.

Steve is also an author and University of Notre Dame professor.

Posted 8 December 2008