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Save 10%: Book by Friday!

Standard tickets for @media 2008 are available for just a few more days.

You can save over 10% on last minute prices by booking by this Friday.

As the conference fast approaches, things are shaping up brilliantly. We’re in for yet another great year with a unique schedule brought to you by some truly fantastic speakers (with a few surprises yet to come!).

Posted 7th May, ‘08 | No Comments

More Speakers, More Sessions, More Soon!

With just over a month to go until @media 2008, the line-up of speakers and sessions is coming together quickly.

Jonathan Snook, co-author of Accelerated DOM Scripting, The Art and Science of CSS, and the ever-popular snook.ca will be presenting Building on the Shoulders of Giants, looking at using frameworks and APIs from the likes of Google and Yahoo.

Indi Young, author and founder of Adaptive Path, will present Mental Models: Sparking Creativity Through Empathy, discussing how to improve design by getting inside the heads of users to truly understand what drives their behaviour.

In the Alternative Track, The Guardian’s Marc Pacheco will be sharing experiences of a live redesign on an 18-million visitor a month site, James Box will take you behind the scenes of Clear Left, and Matt Biddulph will demonstrate what makes Dopplr tick.

More will be revealed soon!

Posted 23rd Apr, ‘08 | No Comments

Part of London Web Week

@media 2008 is proud to be part of the recently announced London Web Week.

With seven days of events for web-types taking place both in the daytime and in the evenings, it should prove to be a jolly good experience.

Other events include BarCamp, taking place the days following @media, a microformats event, Web Roots, an event introducing web design and development best practices, a Skills Matter Flash-related event, a number of social get-togethers and parties, and much more.

If you can’t make @media, or if you want to extend your @media visit to include even more chic geek goodness, there’s a veritable smorgasbord of cool, interesting, and downright tasty treats to dip in to.

Posted 14th Apr, ‘08 | 2 Comments

3 Days Left: Early Bird Ends This Friday!

There are just three days left (including today) to take advantage of the discounted early bird tickets for @media 2008.

Remember it’s Good Friday this Friday, so if you’re not in a position to register then, make sure you do so by tomorrow!

Posted 19th Mar, ‘08 | No Comments

In The Wake Of SxSWi

South By South West Interactive, the world’s largest event for (but not exclusively for) web design types, finished last week, garnering similar responses to last year’s event.

Casual conversation revealed two major points: “It’s great to see everyone” and “It’s tooo big”.

Probably not something most companies would gain the greatest return on investment from (especially those who have to travel some distance to get there), those looking for focused, educational, dare I say higher quality content, would do better looking elsewhere (ahem). That said, this is a huge city-takeover, taking place in the bars and restaurants as much as in the convention centre. This is where you go for a rollicking good time, and most certainly seemed to have that.

SxSW isn’t so much a conference as a festival. At 7,500 attendees (ten times that of @media London), a decidedly no-frills affair across 5 days and 13 tracks (no, that’s not a typo: Thirteen. Thir. Teen.), and an emphasis on the social side, this is Geek Glastonbury.

It remains a unique experience and continues to offer high points (social) and low points (oversized).

Posted 18th Mar, ‘08 | No Comments

Yummy Podcasts

For a taste of @media, why not try sampling some tasty podcast treats? Great presentations from @media 2007 by the likes of Jesse James Garrett, Nate Koechley, Jon Hicks, Dan Cederholm, Richard Ishida, and Håkon Wium Lie can be downloaded and listened to in the warm and fuzzy privacy of your own headphones:

• Mark Boulton: Five Simple Steps to Better Typography
• Dan Cederholm: Interface Design Juggling
• Tantek Çelik: Microformats, Building Blocks, and You
• Joe Clark: When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem
• Andy Clarke: Royale With Cheese
• Jesse James Garrett: Beyond Ajax
• Shawn Henry: Advancing Web Accessibility
• Jon Hicks: How to be a Creative Sponge
• Molly Holzschlag: The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All
• Richard Ishida: Designing for International Users: Practical Tips
• Jeremy Keith: Bulletproof Ajax
• Håkon Wium Lie: 1 Web, Acid2 and CSS3
• Nate Koechley: High Performance Web Pages
• Jason Santa Maria: Diabolical Design: The Devil is in the Details
• Dan Webb: The Mysteries Of JavaScript-Fu
• Hot Topics Panel

Podcasts from the recent @media Ajax conference will also be made available via this blog in the coming weeks.

Posted 12th Feb, ‘08 | 2 Comments

@media 2008 London Launch

@media 2008 is back for a fourth year, and is coming to London’s famous Southbank Centre this May. The event’s web site is now live and registrations are open.

You can expect the usual high-quality panels and presentations from some great speakers (with more to be announced soon!), but if you have attended before, you will find the schedule to be quite different to previous years.

Early bird tickets are available until 21st March, and if you get in *really* quickly, there’s a further 10% launch day discount for bookings made today.

Oh, there’s a chance to win a robot dinosaur or wi-fi rabbit, too.

There’s plenty more to be revealed in the coming months, so stay tuned!

Posted 31st Jan, ‘08 | 2 Comments