Andrew Shorten @ Adobe

With MAX 2008 in San Francisco over, focus now shifts to the companion event happening in Milan at the beginning of December.

Just as there are new, Europe-only, sessions at MAX in Milan, there are also a set of Europe-only MAX awards up for grabs at the conference. Voting for the awards is now open, so if you get five minutes, take a look at the Finalist Gallery and vote for your favourites. Winners will be announced before the Sneak Peak session at MAX in Milan.

If you couldn’t join us for the 5 hours of live blogging from the MAX 2008 keynote and sneak peak sessions you can still replay each of the blogging sessions.

Whilst I was trying to trying to capture what was being said, my good friend Serge was busy taking and uploading photos as quickly as humanly possible.

There are about 120 photos available through the live blogging replay, so if you want to see Ryan Stewart in white lab coat, Ben Forta dressed as Agent “F” or see screenshots of Bolt, Gumbo, Flash Catalyst, Alchemy, Nitro and Server-Side ActionScript then you can use the replay feature on the following posts:

• Day 1 keynote
• Day 2 keynote
• Sneak Peaks session

The Sneak Peaks session is one of the most anticipated at each MAX event – stand by for our live blogging coverage as we bring you photos and coverage from San Francisco…

Following Serge’s idea to live blog the day 1 MAX keynote yesterday – which we set-up about 5 minutes before the keynote started – we’re going to be a bit more organised today for the day 2 keynote.

The theme for the day 2 keynote is “Design, Develop, Deploy” and will be lead by Ben Forta, Director of Platform Evangelism. We’re going to be at the front this time (yesterday we were about 35 rows back), taking pictures and live blogging about all the announcements and demos that are shown here in San Francisco.

The keynote is 10.30am PST, 6.30pm UK, 7.30pm CET – use the sign-up feature below to get a reminder when it’s about to start…

Serge Jespers and I are going to be live blogging from the MAX keynote… the session is due to start in about 5 minutes: