Title: This was FOWA Expo 2007
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: October 7, 2007

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# This was FOWA Expo 2007

October 7, 2007

[⌊fowa.jpg⌉⌊fowa.jpg⌉[

I have been attending this year’s [Future of Web Apps Expo](http://www.futureofwebapps.com/)
in London’s ExCeL centre.

There were a ton of [interesting speakers](http://www.futureofwebapps.com/speakers.html)
and I enjoyed listening a lot. Amongst others there were [Steve Souders](https://alex.kirk.at/2007/09/26/high-performance-web-sites/)
of Yahoo (High Performance Web Sites), [Paul Graham](http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html)
of Y Combinator (The future of web startups), [Matt Mullenweg](http://photomatt.net/)
of WordPress.com (The architecture of WordPress.com, he was the only one to go into
some detail) and [Kevin Rose](http://kevinrose.com/) of digg (Launching Startups).

I also enjoyed Robin Christopherson’s talk very much. He is vision impaired and 
showed how he browses the web (amazing how fast he had set the speed of his screen
reader — I know why and guess that most vision impared people turn up the speed,
yet it still feels awkward to listen to it) and which challenges therefore arise.
Unfortunately [Chris Shiflett](http://shiflett.org) only held a workshop which I
was not attending.

The conference was clearly not so much for developers (at some points I would have
greatly enjoyed some delving into code), so I am trying to keep my eyes open for
even nerdier conferences :) Any suggestions?

On the evening of the first day there was a [“live” diggnation recorded](http://revision3.com/diggnation/2007-10-04London)
which was pretty fun.

According to Ryan Carson, he will be publishing audio files of the talks on [www.futureofwebapps.com](http://www.futureofwebapps.com/)
soon. Thanks to [Carsonified](http://www.carsonified.com/) for installing this great
conference. I hope I will be able to return next year.

I have posted [more photos to flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexanderkirk/sets/72157602298386730/).

fowa, fowa 2007

[Misc](https://alex.kirk.at/category/misc/), [Web](https://alex.kirk.at/category/web/)

Read this next

[High Performance Web Sites, a book by Steve Souders](https://alex.kirk.at/2007/09/26/high-performance-web-sites/)

## 2 responses to “This was FOWA Expo 2007”

 1.  ![Mel Kirk Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fd853f6b7380346e0a814e3578fb4c314717d0972ba8ce287436d0ef813f6c8d?
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 2.  [Mel Kirk](http://www.futureofwebapps.com)
 3.  [October 9, 2007](https://alex.kirk.at/2007/10/07/this-was-fowa-expo-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-82977)
 4.  Thanks for your comments, we’ll certainly see what we can do next time to add 
     some more technical content to the tracks…
 5.  We will be adding audio to the site, we’re just in the process of editing and 
     uploading etc, so it should be up within the next week.
 6.  Thanks so much for coming to the event, we really hope that you enjoyed yourself
     as much as we did and I hope to see you again soon,
 7.  Mel :)
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 11. [November 4, 2007](https://alex.kirk.at/2007/10/07/this-was-fowa-expo-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-83012)
 12. FOWA Expo 2007 was very interesting, thanks.
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