The WordCamp Report

I am thanking Matt a lot for this great list of photos of WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco.  I added a couple, but petty much the whole list he put together.

• Adam Tow took some great photos (including the above panarama)
• This hilarious set with the WordCamp sign
• Duane Storey’s
• Randy Stewart’s
• Ben Metcalfe’s
• Andrew Mager
• Nick from CNP’s
• Jenn Vargas
• Dennis Goedegebuure’s
• Mark Ghosh’s
• Lorelle’s
• Planet Chiropractic’s
• Byrne Reese’s
• Liz Danzico’s
• Chris Heuer’s
• Hugo Baeta’s
• Alan Levine’s
• Laura Iriarte’s
• Jeremy Person’s
• Niall Kennedy’s
• Douglas Bell’s
• Scott Beale’s
• Patrick Havens’
• Emily Chang’s
• Daniel Brusilovsky’s
• The WordPress Tattoos
• Some funny ones from the WP Scavenger hunt
• Matt Mullenweg

List will be updated with links.

Kathy Sierra took the stage and sent Matt running and then grabbed peoples attention.

The Best Reviews are when they say “I kick ass because of you.”

What did (do) you want to be really, really good at?

A person who can do something better than anyone else, can see things different.

Being Better is Better.

We tend to not be passionate about things we are not good at.

The reason people don’t like to “upgrade” because its the sense of loss… it was so hard to get there.  They are losing something they “wasted” resources on.

… it’s NOT about being a “tool” expert.

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Liz Danzico and Jane Wells talks about the Beta experimental version of WordPress.

Bizzaro WordPress.  Think of it, and test it.

Two Kinds of People

Windows Vista vs. MacOSX? (where is Linux love?)

Eye Tracking Studies where used to see where people were actually looking.

The 2.5 backstory

Findability, consistancy and “transparent design”

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Noel Jackson looks young but he speaks with authority.

Background: “Uber geek” Worked on Internet for 12 Years.  Worked post prodcuction for a magazine.

He disliked how the internet went from a verypersonal place to a lot of the same, so wanted to change it

Monotone was a happy accident.

What is color? and What makes a Good Color?

What is Color?

Goes through a bunch of slides explaining colors and how colors are made.

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Andy Peatling doing sort of a State of the Buddypress Speech.

Where it is, What it would be useful for, and where its going.

What is BuddyPress?

The Aim:

BuddyPress will transform a Vanilla installation of Wordpress MU into a Social Network Platform.

Where did the idea come from?

Chickspeak  -  http://chickspeak.com

A Social network aimed at college aged girls, built using Wordpress MU.

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