Web project management in azione

This will be my last post regarding this year’s Web 2.0 Expo, of which i attended the first 2 of 3 days. It’s time for conclusions and votes, but also for some quotes that didn’t fit in my previous posts.
Quotes
I don’t believe in markets - Martin Varsavsky
In today’s scenario I could not have started Fon  - Martin [...]

Of all the speakers (among them Tim O’Reilly and Martin Varsavsky) the only panel to note was the one by Leisa Reichelt, “Redesigning drupal.org”.
Drupal.org is the community site of the opensource CMS and social networking software Drupal. The site has 720.000 unique visitors, 300.000 users, 300 new users per day.
The discussion focused on how to [...]

Your site can have a lot of traffic, for many different reasons. Apart from that, your site can experience peaks of traffic.
To deal with this you can build your own infrastructures, but today there are other solutions available, such as the ones provided by Amazon and by Google.
Amazon web services
They are several platforms:

s3 is used [...]

The author presented the process that in Ebay leads to interaction audit. But, first of all, what is “feel” and why should i matter?
It’s the feel in look and feel, while many times we just consider the look of the interface. The feel can be considered how you operate the user interface with your own [...]

A very interesting and informative talk dealing with the new types of attacks that affect web 2.0 applications and RIA in particular.
The session was divided in 2 parts, the first about AJAX and the last about Rich Internet Applications.
The slides of this talk are available on slideshare and are impressive for their completeness. Not only [...]

Leisa Reichet in her workshop (of which i lost the first 30 minutes) talked about ways to improve productivity while planning a new web experience.
Nothing new, but it was a good idea splitting the attendands in several group and ask them to work together.
Even if the workshop lasted for 3 hours, however, many arguments where [...]

Tim O’Reilly on stage starts a difficult topic: how can web 2.0 help in a world of crisis? Important topic but, in part for the ugly American slang of Tim, in part because he probably had a strong lunch (he’s constantly thirsty) I understand only little chunks. I’m not the alone, at least considering the [...]

Tra un paio di settimane vado a Berlino per la Web 2.0 Expo organizzata da O’Reilly e TechWeb e a dicembre quasi sicuramente sarò a Parigi come ogni anno per LeWeb’08. Sulla carta molti degli interventi sembrano validi, speriamo solo le promesse vengano mantenute. 
Questi eventi sono comunque importanti soprattutto per le possibilità di relazione e [...]