Send me to FOWA!

The day started with some pretty cool speakers and covered some good topics. But the best WAS saved for last. Hearing Cal Henderson from Flickr speak was not only crazy informative, but amazingly entertaining. Between the pictures of cute kittens and Optimus Prime, he had everyone in the audience lovin’ it. He gave very technical examples and catered very much to development teams –I was personally lost. But none the less, one of the best presentations of the day.

Gary Vaynerchuk (above) from Wine Library TV gave an equally amazing presentation but on a whole different spectrum. “I’m not here to talk about numbers and stuff like that, I’m here to talk to the heart because thats more my style.”

The host of the Thunder show gave a very passionate presentation that impacted everyone in the audience. He is a very very passionate guy about what he is doing. He answers 1,200 e-mails a day, sends wristbands to his followers and just shows his peoples how much he cares* on a consistent basis.

“You gotta do it from the heart,” explained Gary and he pounded his chest.

*He passed out wine to the crowd, then taped a live show.

MORE PICS!

You can see more pics of Day 2 of FOWA here

FOWA DVD Interview

As I walked around after the conference (I didn’t want to go back to snow), I ran into Elliot Jay Stocks and his camcorder.”Oh, YOU’RE the guy with the shirt!” I picked up the mic and did a little piece about the trip, this blog, and all of the supporters I had along the way. Just wanted to thank Elliot for that was well as all of my sponsors for making this possible for me. You guys rock!

After a glorious night of sleep on Aladin’s Carpet, it was off to the second day of Fowa. I grabbed some Vitamin water and bananas at the deli and met up with my UK friends. On our way to the Convention Center, I found out that:

1. White label networking is coming soon.
2. Rowing can get you into Cambridge
3. Not all British women look like Lucy Pinder

It’s been great here so far. The weather is great, the sun came out, and I’m overflowing with eagerness to design.

ScrapBlog Session

The morning session was presented by ScrapBlog.com, an online scrapbook building site. Their panel of 4 did great in dividing the presentation and addressing the questions. They helped answer several of the lingering questions I’m been waiting to ask. Even though they didn’t quite stick to their original plan, they made it work because they answered the questions throughly we were asking. Awesome job guys!

Wufoo

The afternoon session was presented by Wufoo, and custom HTML form builder. Although not as interactive as the morning session, Kevin provided us with a story that took their company from the very beginning to their present day state or 60,000 users.

The shirt

So I’m bumping into people asking questions about the shirt. They are fascinated when they hear the story and give me the “Wow, what an idea!” nod/face. Then they take a gander at all the ads and ask questions about them. Thanks again to all of the sponsors. I will continue to show the shirt off, even as I sit here and blog.

Picture time!

Wanna see pics from day one? Click here

So after a quick morning run on South Beach (amazing btw), I swung by a small deli shop for breakfast and met some guys also going to the conference.

The three guys are from the UK and have this great site called White Label Dating. It’s a site that allows people to create their own dating networks for specific demographics.

After some chit chat, we all hopped in a taxi and made our way over to the convention center. Ross even picked up the fare for use. You da man Ross!

After a two-hour drive to the airport and a smooth flight on American Airlines, I touched down in MIA last night. After a short shuttle to my hotel I was ready for this year’s Future of Web Apps. Everything is going as planned. Except for the Arabian themed room.

The shirt looks great!

Everyone’s logo turned out pretty crisp and I am very impressed with the quality of the printing done by Zazzle.com. I will post a pic later on today.

In the words of Porky Pig, “Thats all folks!”

As of today, all the spots are filled. The people over at Cinch Creative Media and Need My Password were the last ones in. The shirt should be going to the printers tonight so look for images of the shirt to be posted later this week.

Thanks you!

Again I want to thank all of my sponsors an those people who blogged about me. I wasn’t sure if this idea would work but it was worth a try. I was turned down by my school for sponsoring the trip. So I guess the grown up advice for the day would be the following:

“If you want something, go make it happen.”

Hurry, they’re going quick

So I found out that Zazzle.com, prints shirt up to 12 inches x 14 inches. Since I’ve had a number of people continue to request spaces so I now have 3 more spaces measuring 2 inches x 2 inches. If you are interested in one, please let me know immediately.

Travel update

I have gone ahead and purchased a plane ticket and the FOWA three day pass! I want to again thank all of the sponsors who made this possible. I look forward to promoting all of your companies at FOWA.

Woot- woot!

So I just got up this AM to check my email and saw a huge donation. PSD2HTML.com just purchased the last 24 spots. PSD2HTML is a site that converts your PSD files to valid XHTML/CSS and several other formats including cool Wordpress templates.

From the bottom of my heart, I just wanted to thank everyone who has visited, donated, and blogged about me. Nick La from Web Design Wall had a big part in this so thanks Nick.

I also want to thank Bittbox.com for making a post about it and generating most of my traffic over the past couple days. And also SEOish and Questioning Reality for writing some pretty cool posts about this.

Attention Sponsors

I need all of the hi-res images in by the 20th, but the sooner the better. The final shirt is in the works and I will post it as soon as it’s ready.

Still interested in an ad space?

If you are still interested in promoting your company, I can post a link to your site under my blogroll and on the sponsors page. Donate $10 and consider it done. If you have another idea (anything short of my getting a tattoo of your logo) please contact me at david_bracetty@yahoo.com.

Donations still welcome

I’ve purchased the plane ticket and getting the ticket to FOWA today but could still use a little to get a hotel. Right now the hostel is looking pretty affordable but if anyone knows of a cheap hotel around the venue or The Strand, please let me know. I’m still looking.

Help me get to Miami please!

Hi, my name is David and am selling adspace on a t shirt to raise money to attend Carsonified’s Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami on the February 28th–29th.

As of today, 24 of the 50 spots are still available. Interested in one? They are going for $20 a spot. Scroll down to see how to get one.

To get reserve your spot now, donate here

To see the current list of sponsors, visit Sponsors page.

To see what the shirt will look like, visit The Shirt page

To see more details about the ads, visit The Ad Space

All the details are here

Hi, my name is David and am selling adspace on a t shirt to raise money to attend Carsonified’s Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami on the February 28th–29th.

As of today, 38 of the 50 spots are still available. Interested in one? They are going for $20 a spot. Scroll down to see how to get one.

To get reserve your spot now, donate here

To see the current list of sponsors, visit Sponsors page.

To see what the shirt will look like, visit The Shirt page

To see more details about the ads, visit The Ad Space