Comments on: Obligatory SXSW06 Retrospective

By: Ian Lloyd

Ian Lloyd — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:56:52 +0000

Hey Craig, I have to say quality photo to round the post off with :-) I never got a picture of a sticker with Austin in the background. And I never did feel brave enough to wear my shirt ... 'cos I just couldn't be sure where those stickers were placed. I might just as well have walked around with the word 'vandal' on it!

By: MJ

MJ — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:02:29 +0000

You’re right. I will *never* talk to you or your mom ever again.
*shakes fist full of cucumber slices up at the skies*

Seriously though, that Mom line was purely… genius. Or something.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:38:11 +0000

Try as I may to remain unFlickred, people just keep pointing cameras at me. If you go to SXSW just accept that you WILL end up on Flickr, there’s no fighting it.

Iron Works has pretty good brisket, though I’ve had better. I didn’t get to try their pork ribs, which is the second One True Barbecue.

There were one or two sessions covering Ajax, but I didn’t attend them. I think Ajax is already becoming un-trendy, at least among people who know how the web works. Marketroids are just now starting to hear about it and run to their dev teams with starry-eyed wonder, asking for Ajax. But smart developers have received the message that “just because we can doesn’t mean we should” so we’re seeing more responsible and practical uses of Ajax and effects libraries instead of old-school Flashturbation abuses.

If there was any one dominant theme at SXSW this year, it was the whole “Web 2.0″ thing, the new attitude about building applications and services, and adjusting business models to match. People are excited about the web again, and this time the movement is being led by folks who actually DO something instead of marketroids and venture capitalists who think the web is just another flavor of television.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:42:38 +0000

Sounds like you had a blast Craig….good for you!!

I noticed that there are a LOT more piccies of you on flickr know, you are becoming somewhat in-famous! :)

But the photo I enjoyed most was of that God-given manna from heaven, the only good thing to come out of Texas (well besides you in-passing)….BRISKET…….mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm BRISKET (obligatory Homer drooooooooool) UGHHHHHHHHHLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Was there much on AJAX at the conference?