Dōjō.beer() in Munich

The crowd gathered, hungry for information

Today I attended the Dōjō.beer() session in Munich. It featured nice people and interesting information on dōjō, a prominent JavaScript GUI toolkit.

uxebu@work. What a nice pair!

A mysterious box with tons of bounty

The contents of the mysterious bounty box transformed the crowd into dōjō disciples

Steering: Wolfram was collecting suggestions and votes

The format of the conference was pragmatic: The team around Nikolai, Norman, Tobias and Wolfram had prepared a bunch of talks and the crowd was asked for their preferences. Then the talks started in order of the voting results.

Special guests: dōjō co-founder Dylan Schiemann and project lead Pete Higgins

The talks were very good and the organizers even managed to have two of the dōjō top guys attend via video conference to tell a bit about the direction the project will take. Impressing.

The dōjō folks definitely have the biggest share of the JavaScript GUI toolkits right now and the technology looks mature too. I will try it out for me!


Many thanks to the sponsors and organizers! (uxebu and Mayflower)

Telebid Telegambling

I stumbled over Telebid last week.

From a technical point of view, it is a very dynamic web page. You see countdowns and other information flashing over the screen, which creates the tension and excitement of a computer game. A nice piece of Web 2.0 / AJAX technology.


From an economic point of view, all of this visual stress is created to lure you into bidding for a seemingly cheap product. I wanted to give you a calculation, but then a quick Google search gave me Oliver's article, who came to the same conclusions as I did and who wrote it up nicely with good model calculations.

It is indeed an AJAX game for money.

Update:
They changed their name to Swoopo.