Why digital Brighton rocks

Why hold a conference like this in Brighton? Well, apart from being the coolest spot on the planet and a great place to go for a day of mind expansion and networking, and quite apart from the shopping opportunities, it is quite simply a digital development city. Rosie Land sets out a lot more than [...]

Platforms becoming commodities

Friendster is opening up its platform for widgets. And yes, they call them widgets! You can check the developer documentation now.
Techcrunch
Friendster will allow developers to advertise with their widgets but will not require any revenue sharing; there will be a “widget directory” much like Facebook’s application directory; widgets in Friendster will be promoted virally using [...]

platforms on facebook and beyond

We’re really pleased to announce the participation of Ankur Shah, a founder of Techlightenment, in Widgety Goodness. Techlightenment is one of the leading Facebook application developers, responsible for the now legendary Bob Dylan application and Socialistics. Ankur has an interesting route to his current role and we expect a similarly interesting view of platforms, widgets [...]

twitter along with us

If you Twitter you can now follow updates from this blog and other Widgety Goodness sources by following widgetygoodness with thanks to http://twitterfeed.com

Eggs, bacon, chips, beans and Russell Davies

Russell Davies is a man fascinated with eggs, bacon, chips, beans and planning. And widgets. He’s been around a bit. He is the third most influential person in the interactive agency industries (according to New Media Age Top 100 Interactive Agencies 2007). He’s keynoting for us from the agency side and we’re well chuffed.
bio etc
Russell [...]

Upcoming

You can now spread the word via our Upcoming entry

socialnetwork

We have partnered with backnetwork to put a social network at the heart of the conference. In fact, we’re so convinced that our backnetwork will form a key part of the event that we’re calling it ‘conference as social network’. All delegates, speakers and sponsors get membership of the network from the purchase of ticket [...]

sponsors

I’m delighted to announce three top widgety sponsors:

speakers

I’m really happy to announce our updated speaker list. We’re looking at a range of speakers who can cover the lifecyle of a widget, from conception to excution to distribution to tracking and everything else inbetween. We’ve more speakers to add as we pin down confirmations and a few surprises. So far we’ve got a [...]

mashup* added as media sponsor

I’m really pleased to add mashup*Event as a media sponsor - especially as it was me that originally added the term mashup to Wikipedia!

mashup* Event is a formal gathering of like minded professionals who meet to discuss and debate what matters in the digital world.