June ‘09 Refresh Meeting Recap

At the last Refresh Meeting on June 30th I talked pretty extensively to a small handful of people at the BBC Taproom downtown about my journeys to An Event Apart in Boston in late June and also a tiny bit about Facebook Connect. It was really nice and I want to extend a thanks to all those who attended and suffered through my unprepared ramblings.

For those who did attend, there were some sites, concepts, technologies, presenters and presentations that I mentioned that people had not heard of previously. Here are some links to the topics I covered:

An Event Apart Presenters

Jared Spool

• Find Jared on Twitter & on the web
• Presentation: Revealing Design Treasures From The Amazon. View Slideshare Presentation. Listen Online.

Scott Thomas {aka Simplescott}

• Find Scott on Twitter & on the web
• Presentation: Change the World (Wide Web). Scott did not post his presentation to Slideshare like some of the other presenters, if you’re interested in seeing his presentation, DM me on Twitter.

Whitney Hess

• Find Whitney on Twitter & on the web
• Presentation: DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (without calling in a pro). View Slideshare Presentation.

Web-based Software

• Harvest: Simple Online Time Tracking, Timesheet and Reporting Software
• Userfly: Web usability testing made easy
• Huffduffer: Create your own podcast
• Google Website Optimizer: Create multiple versions of a page to test how different users interact with each (as used by makers of Harvest)
• Crazy Egg: Visualize Your Visitors

Miscellaneous Mentions

• Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz
• Book by Joshua Porter: Designing for the Social Web (Voices That Matter)
• Voyager Golden Record

If you’re looking for some in depth coverage of An Event Apart Boston 2009, check out these LiveBlogging notes from Jeremy Keith and this recap blog post from Nick Sergeant.

Don’t forget, the most important lesson we all learned, 3.5″ floppy disks were made that size to fit in a man’s shirt pocket. See you in July!