Local Talent

6th April 2007

To act as a balance to The Highland Fling the previous day — where all the (excellent) speakers were from the South East of England — Refresh put on a display of local talent.

Held at No. 77.

Google Sightseeing

Have you ever heard of Google Sightseeing? It's survived heavy traffic from Digg and it's appeared on the Jay Leno show. They're world-famous! Sort of.

The folk behind Google Sightseeing talk about the site, how it started, how the managed to increase the traffic to hundreds of thousands of visitors a month, and how they sustained that growth.

Project management for busy geeks

Geeks love programming. But they don't often love project management. In fact, a long-standing stereotype is of disorganised geeks. Meri Williams tells how we can change that.

Tony Farndon

Tony Farndon, author of several popular extensions for Flock, discusses the browser, its potential, and how to extend it.

Edinburgh Menus

Andrew Cavers shows off his latest creation, Edinburgh Menus, a Google Maps mash-up with menus and listings for all Edinburgh restaurants, cafés, bars, pubs, and takeaways.

Microformats

Refresh Edinburgh perennial presenter, Brian Suda, member of the Microformats Project and author of the O'Reilly-published Using Microformats, will introduce us to microformats

The business case for web standards

John Sutherland, web programmer with Mercurytide, will make the business argument for web standards.

Revish

Dan Champion of Blether and Champion IS Ltd will introduce us to his latest project, Revish, a social book review site.

Groopit

Tom Griffiths unveils Groopit, a new social tool that helps existing groups of friends do more together.