CFUnited Day 1 - Keynote - Michael Smith

Michael asked us all to discuss three questions with two of our neighbours in the conference.

• What do I want to get out of the conference?
• What needs to change in web development?
• What can I do to improve the web?

We were also asked to contribute the answers to the survey on the CFUnited web site. Michael will report back on the themes he discovers from the answers posted.

One of the great things that has been growing on the web is use of wikis. CFUnited has a wiki and the team has set up a wiki for the conference. All attendees were invited to contribute to the wiki and link their conference notes.

Michael announced the new Fusebox web site and thanked the mebers of Team Fusebox fro their work on the web site and the new version of Fusebox (5.5) which is now in Alpha.

Michael also asked people to contribute their photographs to the CFUnited group on Fliker.

Originally many sites on the web told you what to do. Now you often combine your input with others to create web content on a site. More users are getting involved with web applications such as You Tube and Second Life. Michael highlighted Spiral Dynamics as a technology for thinking about the future of the web.