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  • Unusually for an Australian technology conference, everything ran on Apple.

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  • An Aboriginal elder welcomed participants to Gadigal land. He shocked the room by asking participants to turn off their mobile phones and laptops ... but was just joking.

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  • Web Directions founder John Allsop told the audience there was irony in a bunch of such internet-connected individuals getting together in one physical room.

    Allsop said the Web worked best when it was woven into the fabric of our lives. "The point of it all is to make being human better," he said.

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  • Question time saw the audience take its turn to have its say.

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  • After the keynote, we spotted some of Australia's Web 2.0 luminaries, including social media consultant Stephen Collins.

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  • Microsoft has a big presence at Web Directions South, with live demonstrations of its Silverlight technology.

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  • iBurst had promised to provide the conference with free Wi-Fi, but the intense demand for bandwidth virtually ensured nobody could use the service's 4Mbps internet pipe.

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Web Directions South: Photos

Thousands of Australian Web technologists and internet workers are attending the Web Directions South conference in Sydney this week. We dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.

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It could take a while for keen conference attendees to get their badges, bags and T-shirts. T-shirts came in three varieties depending on whether you were a Web writer, coder or designer.

Published: September 29, 2008 -- 04:55 GMT (21:55 PDT)

Caption by: Renai LeMay

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