Irish Web Technology Conference
This major four-day event includes 11 separate tracks and over 50 sessions in all covering everything from Business, Design, Development, SEO, Analytics, Marketing and Legal.
"The IWTC is the largest web conference ever held in Ireland and includes a number of renowned speakers from the web industry," said Barry Alistair, the conference project manager. " It is being held in the CineWorld complex because, with cinema-style seating and presentations on the BIG screens, it lends itself incredibly well to a superb audience experience which is second to none. In true IrishDev.com community style, we have involved the Ruby Ireland, Python Ireland, PHP, Microsoft and Dublin Java user groups in speaker selection and they have done a fantastic job getting a schedule together which will appeal to web industrialists, regardless of position, seniority and technology preferences."
Wireless access will be available for delegates to follow the presenters or even to keep in touch with important e-mails or work throughout their time at the conference.
The Irish Web Technology Conference will also provide an opportunity for delegates to participate in "Open Coffee and Bottle" sessions as well as user group meetings. Another major event will be Ireland's very first "Girl Geek Dinner". Organised by Martha Rotter, who is part of the IWTC committee, the "Girl Geek Dinner" is an informal event which is open to all women in technology. "It has been around in the UK for a couple of years now," Rotter explained. "We plan on rotating the event around Ireland and we're using IWTC 2008 to launch the first one. Of course, men may also join in the fun. However, they will need to be invited by a female attendee."
For more information, including a full list of speakers, go to www.iwtc.firstPort.ie.
San Francisco Web 2.0 Summit
Last week there was a summit dedicated to Web 2.0 next development. It took place in San Francisco. Summit Web 2.0 is hold every year since 2004. Under Web 2.0 we understand new World Wide Web conception, wich is dedicated to new communicative environment such as blogs or Wiki.
Google has also participated in this Summit. The representative of Google declared about new Health service where people can upload their own medical history and there deseases. This service will appear in the next year.
If you have something to say more about Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco please feel free to register and place a comment.
Ajax – Is It Useless For Online Shops?
what i would like to discuss? MMM...some days ago i visited a conference dedicated to Business Interent. And there i've heard a lot of opinions about useless and profits of Ajax. And i'm in e-commerce and think about usability of, for instance, online shops... Now i'm going to switch some modules of my shop to Ajax powered. You know that the one of the most important modules is Billing. And i want to convert it to Ajax powered with one click ordering process. And i ask myself questions about will it be more usefull, attractive and simply for customers, or may be it can help to improve usability and as a result can rise sells? So, do anyone use Ajax elements in theier shops and can you compare the profits before using Ajax and now - with WEb2.0 modules? If you can share any stats or can advice to others something - you are welcome. Thank you 
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