There are some significant events happening in South Florida this month namely the Future of Web Apps conference and Barcamp Miami. It’s been fun to see how far along this area has come along in the past couple of years. FOWA is in my opinion the first well respected web conference to hit this area and it says alot about the potential Miami and the surrounding areas have. I’ve stated all along that there is alot going on in this area in terms of design and technology, the main hurdle has always been the many disconnections that existed. If you’re in the area I would highly encourage you to make it out to one of the events.
It’s always fun to look back, on this day last year I gave a presentation at the University of Miami’s Communications Week entitled “The Aesthetics of Web 2.0″ While I was moving some files over to a new host I decided to take a peak at the presentation and was surprised that it held up pretty well. Just today I was discussing Barack Obama’s web site design and I couldn’t help but notice tonight that the look and feel of his campaign site really captures one of the tropes I made a claim to in my presentation called “Optimist” I don’t want to discuss the presentation in this post, if you’re curious you can download the presentation at the link below and post any of your thoughts in the comments.
Download “The Aesthetics of Web 2.0″