My thoughts on Future of Web Apps Conference 2009 Miami
Well, FOWA is over and I’ve got to say, unfortunately, as it was an incredible conference. Usually my I’m hanging more at various flash conferences around the globe but I thought that this web app thing is kinda interesting for me because I do alot of web apps myself using Adobe Flex.
The fact that the conference was taking place in Miami was a little side benefit for me as I’ve got some “friends” in the city 
Anyway, I was really impressed by the workshops and sessions I attended. For me every single session was both inspirational and educational, I really underestimated all the capabilities of modern browsers, or what is generally going on in the browser scene.
I have to admit that I never heard a lot of these names in FOWA’s lineup. Sure I knew about web celeb dudes like Vaynerchuck, Fried, Spolsky, but I’ve never heard of Francisco Tolmasky, Aza Raskin or Alex Hunter for example. Well, from now on I’ll keep an eye on all of these because these geeks killed it on stage (as @garyvee would say).
These are my personal highlights:
- Atlas – The new way of building web applications (by 280North, based on cappuccino framework)
- Aza Raskin showing Ubiquity
- Alex Hunter – very inspirational speech on Marketing (not just because I’m a Virgin/Branson-maniac)
- Jason Fried – Getting real 2.0
- and of course Gary Vaynerchuck on Passion:
Passion is undefeated. You will be one-happy-snork-writing-mother-fucker
The next FOWA takes place in Dublin but I think that I can’t make it. But I’ll definitely attend on of the upcoming Carsonified events.
Oh, the only downside would be the timing I guess, because I have to come back in four weeks or so for Winter Music Conference 2009. So @ryancarson, maybe you consider combining FOWA with all the party madness going on by the end of march. 
