Category — FOWA

The Future of Web apps continues to bring in extra attention. Channel4 has done a piece on this event while mentioning Justroutes.com
Check http://www.channel4.com/4talent/feature.jsp?id=7607 for more….

hola folks,

I’m writing this from our rather oddly proportioned hotel room in London. It’s mad - the bathroom looks like something from a 60’s sci fi show, but enough about the crazy feng shui of suburban London and on with the post.

We have been traveling since 7 am and have to say that we have pretty much used almost every sort of public transport possible. The day has been somewhat odd in many respects, we had an auspicious start with a near traffic accident at 8 am this morning (if you are reading this blonde blue car lady - we are really really sorry - our taxi driver was a lil, ahem, special)

Our flight thankfully was a little less eventful as i slept all the way. once we arrived i was eager to check my mail in order to confirm the hotel details, London it seems is very shiny but really sucks for wifi access, we walked around for 3 hours in the oxford street area before finding a starbucks with net access for the rather extortionate price of £5 per hour - was not impressed. To his credit the dude behind the counter apologised before telling me the prices, surely there must be better wifi though? answers on a postcard please.

Leaving central London we found ourselves on the Docklands Light Railway which is really weird as there is no driver sitting in the front, it looks kind of like a stretched Luas, adding to the rather surreal situation was the fact that were standing in the station from the movie 28 weeks later which was still heavily barricaded and covered in CCTV cameras.

Eventually however, the bizaro tram left us outside our hotel, we checked in, Vinny started coding and i crashed grabbing a few hours sleep.

Tomorrow is the first day if the conference, I’ll post some first impressions in the morning.

take it h

Dave

We are pleased to announce that we have been selected to exhibit at the Future Of Web Applications (FOWA) conference next week in London. Ryan Carson (who you may remember as the Justin Timberlake lookalike from the Dublin DemoBar), after traveling across Europe, has shortlisted JustRoutes along with ten other startups from across the continent to come to the big smoke and show their wares next to such more established luminaries as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. This is a great opportunity for us to meet some of the top programmers and developers in the world and show them what we are all about. We will be flying out on Tuesday, keep an eye on the blog for updates from our world tour of London.

Till next time….

Dave