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Last week I attended the 2-day Future of Web Apps conference at London’s ExCel. I really enjoyed this conference - there were some great speakers and I learned a lot. I hope to write a couple more posts this week covering the highlights.

One of the weirdest experiences was attending presentations by people that I’ve never met before but whose blogs I read/websites I use/podcasts I listen to or watch. It’s strange how I read BBCNews nearly every day, and on Sundays I often read The Times, but I’ve no idea who the people are that write the articles I read and yet in the tech world I know a surprising amount about the people behind sites such as GigaOM, ScriptingNews, Scobelizer (for example I know that Dave Winer has just got a Nokia N800 and the Robert and his wife Maryam have just had a new baby son, Milan). Continue Reading »