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Meet the judges

Shane Seminole Mielke
Shane Seminole Mielke
2Advanced Studios LLC
Creative director
I'm a jack of all trades and master of none.
Personal website:
www.shanemielke.com
Steve Burnard
Steve Burnard
Adobe Systems Europe Ltd
Business development manager
Steve is primarily responsible for creating and driving the technical sales and positioning of Adobe’s products for web, video and e-Learning products and solutions in the UK and Eire.
Personal website:
www.adobe.co.uk
Larissa Meek
Larissa Meek
AgencyNet
Art director
Formerly a model, actress and reality TV star; Larissa has found a passion for art, design, CSS and XHTML.
Personal website:
www.larissameek.com
Asa Bailey
Asa Bailey
Asabailey
Web Head
Asa Bailey has been developing websites since 1996. He’s also the creator of The Cannes Fringe Advertising Festival and a partner in several digital media ventures.
Personal website:
www.cannesfringe.com
Ian Forrester
Ian Forrester
BBC
Senior BBC Backstage producer
Ian Forrester heads BBC Backstage, a developer/designer network. He's well known for geek social events across the capital, including London Geekdinners and BarCampLondon.
Personal website:
www.cubicgarden.com
Iain Mackenzie
Iain Mackenzie
BBC
Technology reporter, Radio 1 Newsbeat
Chris Moyles once said "I wish I was Newsbeat's technology reporter", but he's not – Iain is. He assures us that flying around the world playing with gadgets isn't nearly as exciting as it sounds. Honest!
Personal website:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/newsbeat
Darren Waters
Darren Waters
BBC News Interactive
Technology editor
Darren Waters is the editor of the Technology section of BBC News Interactive. The section is read by more than 400,000 people each day.
Personal website:
news.bbc.co.uk
Ryan Carson
Ryan Carson
Carson Systems
Director
Ryan is an entrepreneur and web advocate who has built two successful web applications: DropSend and Amigo. He also runs worldwide web events and workshops that inspire designers and developers to build their own web applications.
Personal website:
www.carsonified.com
Tara Hunt
Tara Hunt
Citizen Agency
Co-founder
Entrepreneur, blogger, revolutionary and trouble-maker, Tara is also a Canadian living in San Francisco.
Personal website:
www.horsepigcow.com
Andy Budd
Andy Budd
Clearleft Ltd
Creative director
Blogger, user experience designer, standardista and the author of CSS Mastery – Advanced Web Standards Solutions.
Personal website:
www.andybudd.com
Paul Dawson
Paul Dawson
Conchango
Experience director at Conchango
Paul started in “new media” in 1996, and after a string of early websites and CD-Roms for some big brands, went to Conchango in 1999 to create an integrated offering of design, user experience and builds for clients such as Virgin Atlantic, Microsoft, HMV and others.
Personal website:
www.conchango.com
Mike Buzzard
Mike Buzzard
Cuban Council
Presidenté & code curator
Michael Buzzard is a self-taught web developer, instructor and author living in San Francisco. He’s a partner at Cuban Council, a technical/creative company with offices in San Francisco and New York.
Personal website:
www.blather.org
Matt Shobe
Matt Shobe
FeedBurner
User experience designer
Matt is co-founder and chief design officer of FeedBurner, now part of Google. He’s also a private pilot.
Personal website:
www.burningdoor.com/matt
Julie Howell
Julie Howell
Fortune Cookie (UK) Limited
Director of accessibility
Julie Howell works at digital design agency Fortune Cookie. Prior to this she was the digital policy development manager at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), where she worked for 12 years.
Personal website:
www.fortunecookie.co.uk
Oxblood Ruffin
Oxblood Ruffin
Hacktivismo
Executive director
Oxblood is a member of the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow, and is the founder of Hacktivismo, a provider of circumvention technologies for users behind national firewalls.
Dan Mall
Dan Mall
Happy Cog
Designer and front-end developer
Dan Mall is a multi-disciplined architect, designer and developer specialising in front-end code and semantic uses of Flash.
Personal website:
www.danielmall.com
Paul Boag
Paul Boag
Headscape
Director
Paul Boag is a user interface expert. He is also a well-known writer, speaker and podcaster.
Personal website:
www.boagworld.com
John Oxton
John Oxton
johnoxton.co.uk
User experience designer
John Oxton has worked with clients in New York, San Francisco and Chipping Campden
Personal website:
johnoxton.co.uk
Daniel Box
Daniel Box
KNI
Creative director
When not designing, Daniel likes biking around town, playing random sports, eating delicious sandwiches, and making movies with friends.
Personal website:
www.dbox.us
Vassilios Alexiou
Vassilios Alexiou
Less Rain
Interaction director
Creative technologist, won a yellow pencil in 1997, founded Less Rain in 1998, got a BAFTA in 2001, loves Vandal Squad, runs Less Rain’s London office.
Personal website:
www.lessrain.co.uk
Brendan Dawes
Brendan Dawes
magneticNorth
Creative director
Brendan Dawes is an interactive designer based in Manchester, who likes to use various technologies to explore a more human approach to interactive design.
Personal website:
www.brendandawes.com
Ian Moulster
Ian Moulster
Microsoft Ltd
Senior product manager
Ian has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, mostly as a software developer working for a range of enterprise clients.
John Allwright
John Allwright
Microsoft UK
Expression and Silverlight product manager
Started coding on a ZX80. Unfortunately, that was the high point of his programming career, so he now markets developer/designer tools for Microsoft.
Personal website:
www.microsoft.co.uk
Rob Small
Rob Small
Miniclip
CEO
Rob co-founded Miniclip in 2001, with a plan to build a next-generation games entertainment company. Miniclip has become the world’s largest online games website, with more than 35 million unique users.
Personal website:
www.miniclip.com
Molly E. Holzschlag
Molly E. Holzschlag
Molly.com Inc.
Web Standards and Interoperability Education & Outreach
Web standards and interoperability, education and outreach Molly works to educate and assist individuals and companies in using and implementing standards in their sites and software applications.
Personal website:
molly.com
Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell
Nomensa
Director of user experience
As well as managing Nomensa's user experience team, Alastair works with Nomensa's clients to provide highly usable and accessible technology for their websites’ users and customers.
Personal website:
www.nomensa.com
Charles McCathieNevile
Charles McCathieNevile
Opera Software
Chief standards officer
Charles manages standards at Opera, including participating in W3C's HTML, accessibility, and mobile web activities. He is also chair of the Web API Working Group.
Personal website:
my.opera.com/chaals
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
OSFlash.org
Founder
Aral is founder and coordinator of OSFlash.org, author of the pattern-based ActionScript framework, Arp, and the creator of SWX (swxformat.org), a new data exchange format for Flash. He is the author of the Adobe Flex 2 QuickStart Guides and blogs on aralbalkan.com
Personal website:
aralbalkan.com
Margaret Manning
Margaret Manning
Reading Room
CEO
Responsible for the strategic direction of the agency, she’s a frequent keynote speaker and is vice chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA).
Personal website:
www.readingroom.com
Bryan Veloso
Bryan Veloso
Revyver
Co-founder
Fighting the good fight to make sure great applications and great design always live to grace the web.
Personal website:
avalonstar.com
Jonathan Snook
Jonathan Snook
Snook.ca Web Development, Inc.
President
Jonathan Snook is a husband, father, writer, speaker, designer, developer and entrepreneur based out of Ottawa, Canada.
Personal website:
www.snook.ca
Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley
Sophos
Senior technology consultant
One of the world's leading experts in internet security, and author of the cult computer games Jacaranda Jim and Humbug.
Personal website:
www.grahamcluley.com
Suw Charman
Suw Charman
strange.corante.com
Social software strategist
Suw specialises in the use of blogs and wikis in business and, as a digital rights activist, co-founded the Open Rights Group.
Personal website:
chocnvodka.blogware.com
Andy Clarke
Andy Clarke
Stuff and Nonsense
Lead designer and creative director
Andy Clarke is a member of the Web Standards Project and an Invited Expert to the W3C's CSS Working Group. Andy writes about creating beautiful, accessible websites and speaks at conference and workshop events worldwide.
Personal website:
www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Patrick McNeil
Patrick McNeil
TargetScope Inc.
Web designer and programmer
Patrick is a web designer and programmer for technology firm TargetScope, where he specialises in CSS and Microsoft .NET programming.
Personal website:
www.designmeltdown.com
Rob Ford
Rob Ford
The FWA (Favourite Website Awards)
Principal
Founder of The FWA, consultant to leading brands, writes for Adobe and author of Guidelines to Succeed Online (Taschen).
Personal website:
www.thefwa.com
Khoi Vinh
Khoi Vinh
The New York Times
Design director
Khoi leads the digital design group for NYTimes.com, where they’re responsible for interaction and experience innovation. He is also the author of the popular weblog Subtraction.com.
Personal website:
www.subtraction.com
Patrick H. Lauke
Patrick H. Lauke
University of Salford
Web editor
Patrick currently works as web editor for the University of Salford, where he heads a small, central web team. An outspoken accessibility and standards advocate, Patrick favours a pragmatic hands-on approach to web accessibility over purely theoretical, high-level discussions.
Personal website:
www.splintered.co.uk
Martin Hughes
Martin Hughes
WEFAIL
Studio Co-founder
I like making websites for people, for money. Eminem, XGames, BBDO and the Dixie Chicks have all been my friends.
Personal website:
www.martin-h.com
Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg
WordPress
Founder
Matt Mullenweg blogs at PhotoMatt.net. He is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool.
Personal website:
photomatt.net
Tom Coates
Tom Coates
Yahoo
Social media technologist
Early blogger who developed ideas in social software, future media and the web of data for Yahoo, BBC, Time Out and UpMyStreet.
Personal website:
www.plasticbag.org
Christian Heilmann
Christian Heilmann
Yahoo UK
Standardista
Web developer since the end-90s, worked on several blue chip sites, wrote several web development books and now looks after the code quality at Yahoo Europe.
Personal website:
wait-till-i.com