@media conference 2007

Alan and I are attending the first ever American installation of the @media conference.

Jesse James Garrett delivered the opening keynote. He talked about problems and issues we all (as UX folks) deal with... and he presented his information in a way that only a real communications expert can. Nice job. I got a chance to talk to him once he finished up his speech, and again when he passed by our table on his way out of the hall. Nice guy, too.

Molly Holzschlag is talking about broswers and HTML 5 (among other things). Concerning our interaction with and use of browsers, Molly reminded the whole room that we control our own destiny and the future of the browsers we design for, "... we are the big powerful giants."

Dan Cederholm is a presentation guru. His great slides complimented and enormously entertaining and informative presentation. He even had a decapus*.

Quote of the day belongs to Jeff Veen, "The day you launch is the beginning of the race, not the end of the race." Also, thanks to Jeff for blocking the spotlight from my eyes while we talked. Not only is he amazingly talented, and very nice... but he's tall.

All the presentations were terrific. More details and kudos to come later.

* Decapus: ten armed octopus in Cederholm's preso.