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FOWA London—Beyond GoogleMaps. Andrew Turner’s talk at FOWA was the most information dense presentation I’ve ever seen, and discussed a huge number of cool geo projects that I’d never previously heard of. Andrew links to the full slides and video, well worth a watch.

# 17th October 2008, 2:01 pm / andrew-turner, fowa2008, geo, google-maps, maps, presentations

View your FriendFeed in real-time. FriendFeed become the latest site to enable real-time updates using the long-polling variant of Comet. The real-time Web was something of a theme at this year’s FOWA, with talks on message queues, XMPP and scaling Comet at Meebo.

# 16th October 2008, 2:06 pm / comet, fowa2008, friendfeed, meebo, realtimeweb, xmpp

FOWA sketchnotes. Kai Chan Vong’s sketch notes from this year’s Future of Web Apps.

# 15th October 2008, 2:47 pm / fowa, fowa2008, future-of-web-apps, kaichanvong, sketchnotes

Videos from FOWA 2008. The Carsonified team have a scarily fast turnaround on the videos from this year’s Future of Web Apps. Most of yesterday’s talks are already available to watch online, as a full talk or the edited highlight reel.

# 10th October 2008, 4:03 pm / carsonified, fowa2008, future-of-web-apps, video

Places to see in London (for geeks). My geek-oriented guide to London attractions that you may not hear about otherwise, updated for this year’s overseas FOWA attendees. Suggestions for additions welcome.

# 8th October 2008, 2:54 pm / fowa2008, geeks, googlemymaps, london, maps