FITC is coming to Europe with FITC Amsterdam in February and I'm honored to be speaking at it. Not only that but our band, Phlash5, is going to be performing again. We had our debut performance in Hollywood at FITC Hollywood and it's going to be great to have the whole band together again for Amsterdam.

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Recently, I gave a talk titled Web '07 - Web '08 at the Christmas charity dinner (linking to the Google cache as the original site appears to be down at the moment) organized by Sussex Geek Dinners. It was a lighthearted tour through the highlights of Web '07 and a look ahead to Web '08* with predictions by myself and some of my friends.

In my predictions for 2008, I talked about how we will be seeing more RIAs in 2008 -- both from Adobe and third parties -- how Silverlight is not going to have a widespread impact (although is definitely something to keep an eye on for 2009/10 and the competition is going to give Adobe a welcome push in the right direction), how mobile Flash is going to move away from Flash Lite to full-scale Flash playback on devices and how we're going to see Flash on the iPhone, how sometimes-connected applications and web/desktop hybrid applications are going to gain importance with AIR, Google Gears, etc., and how real-time 3D in Flash is going to change the aesthetics of the web.

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I'm going to cut down on my speaking engagements in 2008 as there are a lot of other things I want to do but I will still be speaking at several events, one of which is FITC Amsterdam where I'm presenting a session titled Beyond the Buttons:

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