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March 11, 2008
With everyone in the web development world seemingly flooding Austin at the moment to attend SXSW we take the opportunity to remind those who are in Europe and don't want to spend a lot of money on flight tickets about another conference close by.
The Highland Fling takes place on the third of April for the second time in Edinburgh, Scotland. Considering the very state-of-the-art topic and excellent line-up of speakers it is a "cheap as chips" alternative for those who missed out going stateside.
The conference's motto this year is "The browser and beyond" and was highly influenced by Tom Coates' talk at dconstruct in Brighton last year. Tom was talking about "Designing for a web of data" (Podcast here) and explained that in the future we'll get away from pages and browsers and the internet will become more and more a web of data independent of display device.
Following this motto, you'll hear tales and tips from the speakers Mark Norman Francis, Chris Heilmann, Chris Mills (Opera), Aral Balkan (Singularity), Gareth Rushgrove and Simon Willison about what can be done to make this web of data a reality rather than just a pipe dream.
The conference will be chaired by Paul Boag of Boagworld.com and have a bit of a different style than most. There is also a high chance that the conference will be followed by Refresh Edinburgh, a free un-conference the day after.
Following proper Scottish customs assorted speakers and organizers will wear Kilts, no matter what the weather turns out to be.
Posted at March 11, 2008 4:00 PM
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