[FOWA 2009]: It’s over… what have we learned?

FOWA 2009 is coming to an end. A dedicated rant against big companies by Gary Vaynerchuk and the yet to come Kevin & Gary Show with Vaynerchuck and Digg‘s Kevin Rose build an entertaining finale of the conference.

What have we learned?
For me personally (and according to the people’s reaction also for others) there were especially two things which stood out. One of them were the very exciting demos of Atlas. Atlas is a development environment and visual editor for web apps based on the Cappuccino framework. With no plugins needed on client side great apps like 280 Slides can be built. And, also really exciting, without any change of the code the same app can run on the desktop on Mac and Windows!
Plus there are even more great things about it – like a nifty tool called nib2cib let’s you use Apple’s Interface Builder and then easily turn this app into a web app. Can’t wait to play around with that stuff soon!

The other big thing was HTML 5. Finally a lot of ballast will disappear and many nice features will be added. I wonder how long it will take until HTML 5 can be used without having to worry about old browsers…

On the non-tech side, this graph of my blog posts about FOWA show very well what it is about: People! And who should take care of them? Marketing!

The conference has given a lot of food for thought. I’m sure some of the thoughts will show up on the blog here in the future in one way or the other. But for now, I’ll turn off my computer and enjoy the Kevin & Gary Show… See you!