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This last week I had a blast in Miami at BarCampMiami and Carsonfied’s Future of Web Apps. It’s obvious that there is a vibrant Web and technology community in Miami as well as Florida in general, which is really exciting.

BarCampMiami hosted more than 300 people. Numerous sessions were given on a variety of topics. Many folks gave demos on the projects or applications they were working on. Some of the memorable demos for me were Aviary, Santiago Siri’s demo of Popego, and Kevin Marks discussions of the Social Graph API. I also spoke on “Widgets: Your Content. Everywhere. (.pdf of slides)” to a packed out a room.

Special kudos to the BarCampMiami organizers: Alex de Carvalho, Brian Breslin, Chris Saylor, and Nick Dominguez. It was a great event and I’m glad Clearspring got the chance to sponsor. I hope to come back next year. If your city is doing a BarCamp, drop me an e-mail. I’d love to hear about it and possibly come out..

Future of Web Apps was also a blast. Seeing speakers like Kathy Sierra from Creating Passionate Users and Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV was a highlight. By far, the best part was all of the different friends I was able to make during the breaks and party after the event, like the FreshBooks guys, Jose Castillo, and many more.

Kudos to Ryan Carson, Mel Kirk and the Carsonified Crew for making Future of Web Apps a great event! I’ll definitely be back

I look forward to meeting more of you a future events around the country, like SXSW.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 1:08 pm by justin and is filed under clearspring, events, travel, widgets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.