Web Standards, Accessibility & More » Nokia http://weboverhauls.com/dennislembree/blog Personal blog of Dennis E. Lembree, web site professional Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:44:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Attended Web 2.0 Expo in SF http://weboverhauls.com/dennislembree/blog/2009/04/07/web-20-expo-sf/ http://weboverhauls.com/dennislembree/blog/2009/04/07/web-20-expo-sf/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:26:24 +0000 Dennis http://checkengineusa.com/dennislembree/blog/?p=191 Continue reading →]]> Last week, I attended the Web 2.0 Expo conference at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. The sponsors included O’Reilly Media, Adobe, Microsoft, and eBay. Overall, it was a pretty good conference, with lots of discussion about mobile and geo-location, “Cloud Computing”, and of course, Twitter and Facebook. Here are some tidbits I picked up:

  • Mobile web usage doubled in 2008.
  • Nokia is the world’s largest digital camera producer (as they are the biggest mobile phone manufacturer).
  • App written by Google in HTML5 for iPhone and Android is sweet.
  • Mobilize Don’t Miniaturize
  • Need to read up on the W3C Geolocation API
  • Since 2003, web page file size has tripled!
  • Only 1% of iPhone Apps are used long-term.
  • For usability testing, research only what is necessary.
  • Don’t put branding ahead of users.

The day before the conference, I took and vacation day and brought my wife and kids up from Cupertino to “the city” for a mini-vacation. We stayed at a very nice hotel for which we got a great rate through HotWire.com. Here’s a Flickr album of the family portion of the trip.

Computer nerd area

Computer nerd area

Exhibit Hall

Exhibit Hall

Dennis at Golden Gate bridge

Dennis at Golden Gate bridge

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