- About to head back to #fowa. Had bad morning with work issues
everything stopped working!! # - Enjoying a history of electricity and the space shuttle from PayPal #fowa #
- @gavD_UK thats true, but it'll also cost them a lot of money in the process. in reply to gavD_UK #
- New PayPal APIs launch November 3rd. #fowa #
- Is it just me or is twitter search dead? It hasn't updated for 2 hours as far as I can see… #
- Techcrunch / Carsonified 2009 Web App Survey only got 65 responses! Just sixty-five! #fowa #
- Liking the look of Translations for Facebook Connect – seems like a useful way to crowd source site translation (http://bit.ly/QgRtK) #fowa #
- @bash didn't realise you were 'leaving' TCE! good luck in your next job
# - Finding some of these talks a bit too much like a sales pitch #fowa #
- Bruce Lawson from Opera now talking about HTML5 #fowa #
- Warning: HTML5 is NOT accessible. #fowa #
- RT @samstokes Finally an interesting, technical, funny, engagingly delivered, product-pitch-free #fowa talk: @brucel on HTML 5. Bravo #
- HTML5 forms look fantastic #fowa #
- HTML5 "Finding your location…. FAILED" #fail #fowa
# - HTML5 best talk of the day so far #win! well done Bruce! #
- #fowa Chris Thorpe from Guardian up next #
- #fowa changes to the newspaper industry: You can either look at it and ignore it, control it, or embrace it #
- My notes from the HTML5 talk #fowa – http://bit.ly/KPFmJ #
- A few people I work with should be forced to listen to this talk #fowa #
- Guardian expenses site took 1 week to build, hosted on amazon ec3/s3, and has cost less than £50 for hosting since launch #fowa #
- Great talk from The Guardian – they are doing some great stuff with open data and innovation. (thanks @jaggeree!) #fowa #
- For anyone asking about password protection on http://data.hmg.gov.uk – its currently in beta – sign up to google group for password. #fowa #
- My notes from the guardian talk – http://bit.ly/15CA92 #fowa #
- @iamdanw its the canvas part that is not accessible. i assume the rest of HTML5 is (with the standard caveats) in reply to iamdanw #
- Looking forward to #fowa pizza from Sun after this talk from Mozilla.
# - Good ending to the first day if #fowa. Made up for some of the less impressive talks. Now for food then "FOWA after party" #
- Day 2 of #fowa London & I appear to have working wifi! #win #
- @helloapp sat KU38M #
- @api_mashup apologies for the (very) late reply – all the details are on the Digital Engagement Blog – http://bit.ly/HTeuw in reply to api_mashup #
- Britt Selvitelle from Twitter is up first today – Learning from Twitter, the future of front end engineering. Could be interesting
# - Entertaining start to the talk from Simon Wardley – 248 slides!!! Lots of laughs. #fowa #
- It seems that no-one understands what Cloud Computing really is. There is no definition apart from (Cloud = Our Product). #fowa #
- RT @jJas: definition of Cloud Computing "Its like computers on the internet innit" – Simon Wardley on top form! #fowa #
- RT @WeTechnoPhobia: if you treat an activity as innovation as everyone else moves on, you will loose out. Basic business sense #fowa #
- Warning from @swardley: if the cloud isn't based on open source, we risk losing strategic control over the future of the internet. #fowa #
- @memespring Joe is heading back on the first train after end of conference. I'm here till just after 8pm. in reply to memespring #
- @rhys_evans Only just got your tweet – WiFi & Mobile signals here are shocking. Joe will give you a buzz now. #
- To everyone trying to contact me – I'm at #fowa today, I only have WiFi when I'm in the sessions, and there is pretty much no mobile signal #
- Woo, my favourite part of #fowa now – Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet on building accessible web apps. Really important stuff. #
- AbilityNet: 19.4% of the US population have a disability #fowa #
- An accessible site reaches a 10-20% larger audience (based upon disability and web usage stats) #fowa #accessibility #
- Enjoying the new talk from Robin Christopherson – Facebook via a screen reader is awful #accessibility #fowa #
- Follow Robin on twitter: @usa2day #fowa #
- Facebook Mobile much more accessible, but not as fully featured. #fail #accessibility #fowa #
- The free screen reader software @USA2DAY was talking about: NVDA http://www.nvda-project.org/ #fowa #
- @LittleLaura I will try!
in reply to LittleLaura # - Chrome Frame completely destroys accessibility #accessibility #fowa #
- CAPTCHAs accounted for a 7.3% reducation in conversions #fowa #
- RT @minorissues: captchas are bad for business. In these numbers, conversion numbers fail, spam stays equal more or less #fowa #
- RT @oiva: Corporate blogs should be about the real people behind the company, not consistency. And it takes balls, says Alex Hunter @ #fowa #
- RT @Natbat: "Print is not dying, it's becoming an elitist commodity" #fowa #
Today’s Tweets (2009-10-02)
October 2nd, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan




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