Last week was one heck of a week. We got the opportunity to travel to Miami and check out the Future of Web Apps conference put on by the crew of Carsonified. The trip had been planned for some time but it was becoming increasingly tougher to look forward to because our sales in the last two weeks have been blowing up. We wanted to stay and enjoy the current good fortune but also knew the importance of seeing what the future holds at the conference.

Nevertheless, we thought it would be fun to create some gifts for the whole team at Carsonified. Ryan Carson, the head honcho at Carsonified, is known for wearing a particular style of hat. Here is a pic of Ryan wearing his lid:

There are very few vendors in our industry that make that style of hat because it’s not made real well for embroidery. We found one that we could work with if we turned our embroidery machines down real slow and only ran one hat at a time. We added the Carsonified logo to all eight of them and they came out great:

Now what happened next is the real funny part. I gave the hats to Mel Kirk of Carsonified at the conference during lunch and she wanted to go show Ryan. We went and showed him while he was talking to Kevin Rose of Digg and they joked about wearing them during the next panel. That is exactly what happened as you can see here with this group of Web all-stars:

The guys and girl listed in order are Ryan Carson of Carsonified, Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch, Blaine Cook of Twitter, Kevin McHale of Wufoo, Leah Culver of Pownce, Alex Bard of Goowy, Gary Vaynerchuk from WineLibrary.tv, Kevin Rose from Digg, Carlos Garcia from Scrapblog, Cal Henderson of Flickr, and Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress (this is a Wordpress blog!).

Miami was awesome, the FOWA conference was great and we’ll definitely be going back. We are glad to be back in the saddle though and looking forward to the future at You Design It.