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With Danny Sullivan's departure from Search Engine Watch and the Search Engine Strategies conference series, the future of the Search Engine Strategies conference is something that many people wonder about. Kevin Newcomb, news editor at Search Engine Watch, has posted...

Finally catching my breath from <a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sew/toronto07/">Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2007</a>. As close to an unqualified success as I could have hoped. Many attendees including <a href="http://www.highrankings.com/">Pauline from HighRankings</a> (who interviewed me for Jill's newsletter) noticed that the freshness of the program spurred speakers into coming up with new, fresh, cutting-edge material. That gave sessions the buzz that might have been missing from the less-than-stellar beverage tables. Pauline also asked if there were any new speakers. There certainly were! We had the chance to see several new SES faces including <a href="http://www.mssem.com/">Helen Over...

A few weeks ago Geoff Livingston, The Buzz Bin, presented me with an opportunity that no self respecting Diva worth her Jimmy Choos could refuse. Geoff invited me to key note at the divine divas of Washington DC's Success In The City's New Media Nouveaux Conference - "How to make your audience fall in love with you, your message and your business." Click on to the site and you'll understand why I'm excited about talking social media with the SITC Divas. Geoff Livingston, The Buzz Bin kicks off the morning with findings from his forthcoming book, Now Is Gone. The day unfolds with some of Metro DC's smartest marketers and bloggers -  Jill Stelfox, CEO of DefyWire Jenifer Cortner, CEO of EFX Media Sean Gorman, CEO of Fo...

OPW -- June 14 -- Check out the Agenda and Speaker list for the upcoming Internet Dating Conference. Both Draper Fisher Jurgetson and Norwest Venture Partners, two of the largest VC firms in the world, are speaking. Nice. As I was saying, this is the strongest conference I've seen yet. Anyone registering saves $150 if they register by Friday, btw. See you there. - Mark Brooks

There is a mobile web 2.0 conference coming up soon. Watch Mobile Web 2.0 and monetizing the Mobile Internet!

Last week, we announced that Kevin Ryan had joined Incisive Media as the new VP and global content director for Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch. Lee Odden interviewed Kevin for his Online Marketing Blog last week, and today, Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz published an interview he did with Kevin, "The New Direction of SES & An Interview with Kevin Ryan." Kevin spoke with Rand at SES Toronto, which took place earlier this week. He offered some insight into the direction SES may be heading, and shared with Rand Incisive's plan to create an advisory board for the SES conferences, consisting of about a dozen individuals from the industry to help Kevin and our programming and operations teams guide the direction of future conferences. ...

<p>By Tim O'Reilly</p> <p>I'm really looking forward to our <a href=http://www.toccon.com>Tools of Change for Publishing</a> Conference next week, which we call TOC for short. While O'Reilly long ago moved beyond thinking of ourselves as just a publisher, book publishing is still a big part of what we do. But over the years, we've had to re-think publishing as the <em>outward form</em> of what we do -- and only one of many outward forms at that. Our core business is changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators, and following that mission led us to broaden what we do to include <a href=http://safari.oreilly.com>online publishing</a>, <a href=http:...

I got an email from Brian Cleland notifying me that the next Irish BarCamp, BarCamp Belfast is taking place in Queens University Belfast on Saturday June 30th. Sign up on the wiki now if you are going to attend.

Ubuntu is the darling of the Linux desktop space. Voted #16 in PC World's Top 100 Products for 2007, millions of users and now coming as an option for Dell users straight out of the box, this Linux distribution is increasingly being deployed on corporate networks. With a free server edition, a professional support organization and a growing band of enthusiasts in and around the IT divisions of enterprises it is becoming the Linux distro of choice for all types of user. But how does a commercial organization engage with a community built product like Ubuntu? How are licensing and other commercial and legal issues resolved? And how does an organisation protect the code it needs to keep proprietary from that it is happy to put open source?

I wrote about the X Change Conference recently in Attending Semphonic XChange Conference - Sept 20th - 21st; now Gary Angel, one of the principal organizers, has blogged about the event:"...It’s a change in paradigm – and one that I hope can drive tremendous value to real-world practitioners in web measurement who feel like they are near or at maximized out with traditional conferences.""...What I’ve found, and what I think most people discover, is that the first time you go to a Conference the learning's can be profound. But the returns diminish rapidly with – well – each return."I've attended a fair number of conferences lately and I can say the above statement is true for me - mos...

Two exciting competitions are the hot topic around the WordPress community this week. One if for WordPress Plugins and the other for designing around the innovative Sandbox WordPress Theme. More top notch bloggers and blogs are switching to WordPress and the VIP Hosting WordPress.com service, thrilled with the state-of-the-art development of WordPress. Lester Chan of GaMerZ has updated a dozen of his popular WordPress Plugins. There are a lot of new news about WordPress Plugins you need to know. And Andy Skelton is riding his motorcycle on a 7,000 mile trip to WordCamp 2007 in San Fransisco! How are you going to get there? (more…)

I’m speaking to 370 (it was over 400) people at a virtual conference today hosted by Marketing Profs. Thanks to Bill Lee, Whitney and David and all the folks at Marketing profs to invite us. They’re using web-based software by Unisfair. It’s an interesting concept as it appears like you’re at a virtual conference. Of course, it takes some time to get used to the interface, but once you find a session you can put it on in the background and go about your work. I think it’s possible to host your own conference by using slideshare to post your slides, then using ustream (a company I advise) , and camtwist for interaction details. Likely it’s not quite as robust as scalable, but I see this technology quic...

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=63000&doc=wwdc20071554" width="425" height="348"><param name="movie" value="https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf?id=63000&doc=wwdc20071554" /></object> <p>Check out Steve&rsquo;s slides: big font, lots of pictures, very few words, and the bullets build. For a good contrast, read Garr Reynolds&rsquo; analysis of <a href="http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2005/11/the_zen_estheti.html">Steve vs Bill</a>.</p></div> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/guykawasaki/Gypm?a=qENknV"&...

In case you missed the official announcement, SEO Class will now be partnering with WebmasterWorld, Inc. to create SEO Class hosted by Pubcon. The first of several dates to be announced is July 30th and 31st in Manhattan. We’re proud to have Brett Tabke and Joe Laratro joining as speakers to up the ante of the quality of information provided. Check out the speaker bios, and register early for a discount. We’ll also be featuring the “SEO Bullpen” - which is essentially some hands on time to look at your website, and make recommendations. Think lightning round site audit for a fraction of the price. In my experience, 80% of site audit recommendations are made from observations made in the first 1/2 hour or so of ...

Incisive Media announced this morning that Kevin Ryan, formerly CEO of Kinetic Results and one of my favorite columnists at iMedia Connection, will be joining Incisive Media as VP, Global Content Director, Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies. Kevin also made a post on the Search Engine Watch blog. In essence, Kevin is filling the giant shoes that Danny Sullivan left and that’s a very, very tall order. Danny has made nothing less than groundbreaking progress in a very short amount of time with Search Engine Land and from all accounts, the SMX conference. I would be curious to hear from Kevin how he’ll address the inevitable comparisons and also what his plans are. How will he approach content strategy for the SES con...

In the past couple of weeks I've been doing my best to promote the upcoming <a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sew/toronto07/">SES Toronto</a>. Such as, telling people about it at the <a href="http://www.1938media.com/martinis-at-mesh/">Mesh pre-mixer</a> or sitting in the hallway at Mesh and not saying a word about SES until someone asked about it.<br /><br />I've heard some strange things that have surprised me.<br /><br />* "I hear there are hardly any women at that conference." Hmm, contrast with the conversation I had with <a href="http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3622545">Rebecca Lieb</a> at SES New York, where she remarked that in the past days of search ...

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Walt Mossberg asked CBS CEO Les Moonves about Al Gore’s critique of television culture in his new book, The Assault on Reason. “Gore said that TV in general has basically destroyed American democracy. He says the Internet is the hope –” Moonves interrupted: “That’s because he created it.” Mossberg grimaced. There was not a single laugh in the room. It is one sign of hope for the world today that this dead old line — discredited eons ago — now evokes only contempt. Meanwhile, here is Moonves’s stirring defense of his medium against the complaint that TV caters to too much of our love for celebrity news at the expense of more pressing issues: “I think there are other things th...

<p> Howdy! First, to all of you really anxious to follow me around (but don't feel obliged, really) twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/jeffclavier">here</a>) is where my “creativity” expresses itself these days. In short bursts of 140 characters max - which I found amazingly annoying but now really appreciate. </p><p> May has been crazy busy at work, lots of good developments in the portfolio, and lots of thoughts put in the scaling of my own business. And of course a bunch of conferences. And June is going to look pretty much the same. </p><p> First, I am writing this from SFO on my way to Amsterdam, where the <a href="http://2007.thenextweb.org/home/" title="htt...

Here at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, an annual event for 800+ mashup developers, there’s no perspective yet on the importance of maps to the local ecosphere. But a picture is developing of a “3D Data arms race,” in which Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others are spending fortunes vying to have developers use their platforms for cityscapes, which could be as important as a Windows operating system has been for PCs. “We don’t just want 1,000 people who use” Google’s API for maps, said Google map head Michael Jones. “We want 100,000. We want to be the glue that makes it work. Geo is something that is integral to everything moving forward.” Jones noted that Google already has 2 million activations of Google Earth, which it hop...

ignite_where by brady For those who'd like to end Memorial Day weekend with a bang, drop by Ignite @ Where 2.0 tonight in San Jose (upcoming link here), and help kickoff the Where 2.0 conference. Brady Forrest put on an incredible set of speakers for the Ignite @ Web 2.0 Expo a few months back, and i expect this one to be a similarly mind-expanding and -altering affair :) ps - free beer, i think.

Amanda Camp <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2007/02/seattle-conference-on-scalability.html">announces</a> on the Google Research Blog that Google will host a new conference on scaling massive systems here in Seattle on June 23.<br /><br />Registration is not open yet, but I hope to be able to attend.<br /><br /><b>Update</b>: Registration <a href="http://www.google.com/events/scalability_seattle/index.html">is now open</a>. Unfortunately, I cannot attend (the conference overlaps with Foo Camp). Too bad, the talks look good.

Colin White continued on after his RSS presentation to give a wrap-up of the entire conference. Considering that he's the only thing standing between people and their flights (or the pool, in my case), it's pretty sparsely attended. I'm staying in the room to avoid the Häagen-Dazs that's on the coffee break table outside; after 4 conferences in 7 weeks, I have "conference bulge" and need to get back to brown rice and broccoli for a while. He makes the point, as he did yesterday, that the audience has changed dramatically from previous PCC conferences, both in terms of their technical focus and the external-facing nature of the portals that they're building. Uh-oh, he just said "Portals 2.0", a sure sign that he's trying to Web 2.0...

The second Next Web Conference is in Amsterdam in a week or so. I’m looking forward to attending. Marc Canter and I will be sitting in a “special” area and have been given full permission to “comment” on all the presentations. We’ll make asses of ourselves, I’m sure. Looking forward to it.

Girlfriend, a little learning, a few  umbrella  drinks, a  bit  of  touring .. just in time for summer fun .. a few marketing conferences and events to add to your vacation plans. May 23 - Atlanta - AiMA's Annual Spring Fling is all about rolling the dice with a night of Casino Networking . Thanks to advertising.com for their sponsorship and Julia Brown for co chairing this one with me. June 1 - London - PSFK Conference in London June 9 - San Jose Social Media Club Starting The Conversation July 9 -11 - Washington DC - AMA Non Profit Conference. Worth the price of admission if only to hear Sybil Stershic and Katya Andresen speak. July 13 - Washington DC - Success in the City New Media Nou...

You know, I look around at other blogs, and instead of paying attention to a faulty or very conservative figures Feedburner counter, I typically guage how popular a blog is by the amount of consecutive comments they have on each blog post entry. There are so many big boy bloggers out there that are not [...]