The last few days have been flat out. On Tuesday I ran an all day a pre-conference workshop. Tools that the participants were able to explore included WordPress [doc], Swickis [doc], del.icio.us bookmarks [doc], Flickr [doc] and Twitter [doc]. It was an interesting workshop and the participants seemingly had a good time.
Web 2.0 workshop participants
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on the read~write web and current developments in the area including mashups, Yahoo Pipes and scraping of sites througgh the use of tools such as Dapper. Some of the audience members are pictured below.
The audience
NTU has an excellent set up and my presentation was recorded by Ian and the team pictured below.
Ian, centre, and her team of helpers
At the conclusion of the presentations myself, Tom Reeves, Sheryl Wong, Paul Gagnon and Westley Field grabbed a few quick photographs. The Good To Great Seminar has been excellent and there has been a lot of buzz and excitement. I shall be coming back up to Singapore in April to follow up on some of the workshops and presentations of this week.
Myself, Tom, Sheryl, Paul and Westley
One evening Tom, Westley and I went out for a drink and dinner. We had a beer by Boat Quay and then I took them both for a walk down South Bridge Road to Chinatown. I grabbed a quick photograph of Westley and Tom by Speakers’ Corner. We ate at the Tai Pei Eating House and then went for a walk around Chinatown followed by a visit to the Sri Mariamman Temple. We then walked back to the hotel, past Clarke Quay, across the river and up Victoria Street.
Westley and Tom settle a point of debate.
Last night I caught up with Siva, Airani and Anand. We had a jolly good time. I drank four or more ice-lemon teas and consumed a healthy amount of popiah and tucked into an incredibly rich fish-head curry that just about blew my head off. It certainly cleaned out the cobwebs from system.
Anand and myself
Aiarani, myself and Siva
March 1st, 2008 at 7:02 am
Sounds like a fun/crazy couple of days! I teach computer lit, C++ programming, and web design at a high school in Santa Rosa, and I am really interested in technology. I should attend some seminars like yours.
-Sam Merrin
April 8th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hi Sam,
It was a great experience. Please feel free to check out the next post,
Cheers,
John
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