{"id":938,"date":"2008-10-01T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T11:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/938-future-of-web-apps-london-next-week.html"},"modified":"2008-10-01T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T11:23:26","slug":"future-of-web-apps-london-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/938-future-of-web-apps-london-next-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Future of Web Apps London next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gather that <a href=\"http:\/\/london2008.futureofwebapps.com\">FOWA 2008 London<\/a> is nearly sold out so now is the time to book, if you have not already. I\u2019ll be there.<\/p>\n<p>With stock markets reeling around the world, it\u2019s an interesting time to have a conference focused on start-ups. Still, there are always opportunities. Lean times also help to concentrate minds on what is really cost-effective; if we are in for a prolonged downturn (which looks likely), that may stimulate interest in both web-based and open source technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/london2008.futureofwebapps.com\/schedule\">schedule<\/a> looks like more of the same, if you have been to this kind of conference before, but there are some new topics there too: \u201cHow to decrease the environmental impact of your app\u201d is intriguing; and I\u2019ve already mentioned that XCalibre and Amazon will be co-presenting on cloud interoperability. I\u2019m also looking forward to Tim Bray\u2019s session as I have not heard him speak before.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:860adc16-994b-41ad-8cf9-2239b45ca77c\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/fowa+2008+london\" rel=\"tag\">fowa 2008 london<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/tim+bray\" rel=\"tag\">tim bray<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/amazon\" rel=\"tag\">amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/xcalibre\" rel=\"tag\">xcalibre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/cloud+computing\" rel=\"tag\">cloud computing<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gather that FOWA 2008 London is nearly sold out so now is the time to book, if you have not already. I\u2019ll be there. With stock markets reeling around the world, it\u2019s an interesting time to have a conference focused on start-ups. Still, there are always opportunities. Lean times also help to concentrate minds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/938-future-of-web-apps-london-next-week.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Future of Web Apps London next week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}