Future Of Web Apps: Expo In Brief
October 10th, 2008. Published under General. 2 Comments.
The expo floor
The biggest difference between this event and the other carsonified “Future of …..” is the fact there is an expo floor. This year was similar to last year where you have some big names with expensive looking expo areas, going all the way down to the low budget startups. All of these give away free stuff from pens to t-shirts. Also there are competitions galore. Microsoft was giving away and xbox and YuuGuu are giving away a MacBook Air!
On top of that Microsoft had a “Surface” demo that you could get your hands on. Along with that were some xbox machines for playing Grid or Guitar Hero.
Eye catchers
I wondered round the expo and approached some of the the companies exhibiting and these were the ones that I thought were really good.
- PhoneFromHere. They have a simple but clever service where you click a link on a website and it will instantly ring a landline number for free where a real support person or contact can answer.
- Zembly. Apart from the free shirt they have a great app that makes it easy to create Facebook apps. They do this by intergrating as many API’s as possibly and they are interested in using TwitterLeague’s simple API in a new feature they are building called “bring my API”.
- YuuGuu. They were giving away a MacBook AIR, what else do you want from me? :p
Expo floor video
Below is my Qik video of the expo floor. Sorry for the dodgey camera work!
2 Comments
Ollie Parsley on October 12th, 2008
I definitely did! More stuff to come from FOWA 
Glyn Evans on October 11th, 2008
Ollie, looks like you had fun at FOWA.