In Brief

• Interview with FeedDemon's Nick Bradbury discussing the NewsGator acquisiton
• Google Asense now available for RSS feeds
• Peronalised Google Homepage
• 50 things to do with your iPod
• IE7 will have tabbed browsing

Plain English, Please

Dan Stilicho highlights an issue with the Wikipedia entry for 'Web 2.0' - basically it was so full of business-speak and marketing catchphrases that it was almost illegible.

The entry is now being edited by Dan so as to be readable, but you can read excerpts of the original entry, and his comments, at his blog.

It contains such gems as:

"The technology dichotomy of standards based content syndication formats and service invocation endpoints provide the infrastructural essence of Web 2.0."

Yes, right. Anyone who writes like this should probably employ the services of these people.

Web Essential 05

Building on the success of WE04, Web Essentials returns this September 29 and 30 even bigger and better. Featuring 7 industry leaders in:

• standards based web design and development
• user experience
• accessibility
• workflow and strategy

WE05 will instruct and educate and like no other conference this year.

With 22 sessions in two streams over two big days we've got 50% more content than last year, and more than twice the number of international speakers. Most importantly we're totally focussed on practical hands on instruction in XHTML, CSS, AJAX, accessibility, user experience, semantics, microformats and more.

Read the program line up

The lineup includes:

• Molly Holszchlag
• Eric Meyer
• Jeffrey Veen
• Tantek Celik
• Kelly Goto
• Derek Featherstone
• Doug Bowman

Read about the presenters

Web Essentials is genuinely thrilled to be bringing such an incredible group of experts to Australia for WE05, and at the early bird price of just AU$700 (paid before July 1) this is well and truly the bargain of the year.

Not just a conference

This year Web Essentials won't just be about the conference. We've made plenty of opportunities for you to network and socialize with the speakers and your peers. There's the official Web Essentials Party (along with book signings by many of the speakers), a closing night party, and a new, optional breakfast featuring web legend Tantek Celik.

We want to build a genuine web industry here in Australia: you won't just be more knowledgeable when you leave WE05, you'll also be better connected with your peers in Australia, and the wider web development world.

The deal

Early bird registration is now open, so register now and pay before July 1 for just AU$700.

Register for WE05

Then start ticking off the days to September 29th.

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