Webdu day 2 – The wrap up

The day started with the Microsoft Mobile breakfast. They are starting up a service called ‘marketplace’ for windows mobile apps which is basically like the appstore for Iphone. Besides that, there wasn’t that much that was interesting.

Day 2 keynote was in 3 parts by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft about where they are going with their technologies. I honestly wasn’t that awake during the session but picked up some bits and pieces. Next I went to the google maps session. I sat up the back to listen to the stuff I didn’t know but also to check email and take a look at my trading cards. I pulled the trading cards I had collected and put together wednesday night and swapped a couple around. I didn’t even bother recalculating as I was more interested in the learning part of the day. Then I watched the session on pixel bender, which I had talked briefly about last year, but was nice to see the different ways to put it into flash and also how to use it in photoshop. I’m inspired to try to write some more filters for photoshop. Then was Mike chambers session on advanced air development. Learnt a few handy things that I’m sure will come up as problems in the future. And finally Michaels session on Binding, which was fantastic!

The wrap up of webdu is the final round table session. The panel made up of Adobe, Microsoft and Yahoo employees field questions from the audience and then try to answer as honestly as they can while following their companies marketing line. Then came the prize draws…
This year I handed in my trading cards without even calculating because I wanted to focus on the sessions. I thought I had about 300 and had hoped for maybe a prize in the top 10. Then the top 10-4 scores came up on the board and they started at 430 so I had counted myself out of the race. 3rd prize was announced, then 2nd and then first prize. I looked up at the big screen as I heard my name called out. Richard (who was sitting next to me) said he hadn’t seen anyone go as pale and then bright red as I did. First prize was an xbox360 elite with Project Gotham 4 and Gears of war!!!
An extra funny thing is that Zoe (another girl from QLD) came first last year, so now we have started something.

This photo was taken a little bit later then the announcement when I realised my name was still up on screen and I should take a photo.