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The good folks at Carsonified have posted audio and slides of the FOWD London 2009 speakers including Molly E. Holzschlag giving an overview of the status of web standards, Simon Sankarayya on designing interfaces, both online and physical, and Robin Christopherson giving a JAWS demo and discussing design and accessibility in a Web 2.0 world.

A few weeks ago The Web Standards Project and WaSP Edu Task Force launched a new venture to help create a curriculum outline, guidelines and course samples for those teaching a variety of web related disciplines [it takes more then just good HTML coders to create a good web site]. While I may have had my hands in the code for the site, the real heavy lifting of designing the site and creating the foundation and content for the curriculum project was done by others.

Can you spot the real announcement in my inbox or feed reader this morning?

• Verizon rebrands embracing the ‘cloud’ with its “So Very…” campaign
• Internet Explorer 8.1 Features leaked including Acid3 and Firefox Plugin Support
• Nokia closes MOSH to offer exciting new Ovi mobile application store
• Adobe releases Lightroom 2.4 with support for digital video from cameras like the Nikon D90

This week saw the end of winter mixing with the first day of spring — in the northeast that meant snowflakes on the few flowers that have started poking out. There’s also been a flurry of activity on the net from site launches to reports from the SXSWi and MIX09 conferences and some other good stuff I thought needed to be called out.