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WordCamp is a one day event organized by the creators of WordPress for users and developers. This year’s event was held on Saturday at Mission Bay Conference center and featured talks by a range of people. In his “State of the Word” address, Matt Mulllenweg mentioned this was the largest ever WordCamp with over 400 people attending. You can see a selection of photos from the event at Matt’s post, including mine (also below). There’s also a good live recap of the event by Andrew Mager. Read more...

I really enjoyed O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo this year, which took place in San Francisco on April 22-25. The Expo is a companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, and "an expanded, inclusive gathering for the technology and business communities through a combined conference and tradeshow." Read more...

I'm pleased to let you know that Max Kiesler and my proposed SXSW panel, Social Design Strategies, has been selected for SXSW 2008. Thanks to everyone who voted using the panel picker. Read more...

It's hard to believe Flickr has only been around for a few years. It seems like I've been using it much, much longer than three years. That's testament to its lure, success, and the community that has sprung up around both the service and the lifestyle. Flickr is a seamless part of my digital life. It's both output of my picture taking and the visual view into the daily lives of my friends, colleagues and contacts. Read more...

A few months ago I was asked by Tom Markiewicz, CEO of EvolvePoint, to be on a panel about "Using RSS for Marketing" for the SXSW Interactive Conference coming up March 9-13 and I gladly accepted. Read more...

I'm at the Widgets Live! conference this afternoon with a sold-out crowd of widget geeks, technologists, developers, bloggers and execs at the Marines' Club in San Francisco. Read more...

Last Thursday night was the official launch party for Stylehive, the social shopping community focused on new trends, products, designers, stores and experts. The launch party was fabulous. Read more...

I'm here this morning, a few blocks from my place, at the Palace Hotel in SF for the Supernova2006 conference, hosted annually by Kevin Werbach. This year's theme is "making connections in a complex world." The conference started yesterday with workshops at Wharton West, and continues today and tomorrow with panels here at the Palace. Read more...

Yahoo gave a demo to a small group tonight at the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Brad Garlinghouse, Vice President of Communications, Community and Front Door (pictured left) and other members of his team. Read more...

Entrepreneur27's Women 2.0 Conference will focus "on women entrepreneurs making extraordinary leaps in the technology world. Women 2.0 will showcase top women entrepreneurs. We will connect like-minded, motivated women to swap energy, ideas, and experiences with each other." Read more...

It's not every day that we can teleport ourselves to the world of high fashion and style. But tonight, Friday, March 24, 2006, you can! Join us at the Stylehive virtual headquarters in Second Life for a fashion show to celebrate the launch of Stylehive.com. Read more...

We're at MashupCamp, a two day event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, nestled in Silicon Valley, south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale. I mention that because there's a palatable sense of tech here in the Bay area that can't be ignored. It's one of the reasons that I moved to SF a year and a half ago, and it's one of the many things I love about this area. I've walked into plenty of suburban Hilton Garden Inns around the country, but at this one, there's a pamphlet for the Intel Museum in the rack of tourist attractions. Read more...

Mike Arrington's TechCrunch 5 party for Shel Israel and Robert Scoble's new book, Naked Conversations, was a big success on Friday night in Atherton, CA. Some 400 people showed up at Mike's house to mingle, hang out, congratulate Shel and Robert, and generally celebrate amidst a great crowd of techies, bloggers, entrepreneurs, tech giants, thought leaders, startups, designers, developers, photographers, and even Douglas Engelbart, the creator of the mouse. Read more...

Thursday night was Kevin Werbach's Pre-Pre-Supernova party here in SF, just a couple blocks away at Cha-Am Thai. The dinner was a great chance to network and chat with leading tech innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. Read more...

I'm pleased to announce that my Ideacodes partner, Max Kiesler, and I will be on a panel of judges for the ExpressionEngine $15,000 Shootout. Read more...

The JP Morgan and Connector Group Showcase, "a unique forum for companies to introduce their leading-edge products and services to the Silicon Valley's elite group of tastemakers and influencers ," took place on Monday, January 30 at the JP Morgan offices here in SF. Read more...

We had the wonderful opportunity to attend an informal dinner on Monday night here in SF with the Yahoo! design group and a mix of fellow designers, developers, and even some HCI and usability legends. Read more...

Earlier today, I went to the E27 Technology Symposium at Stanford University. E27 is "a forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular blogs, progressive companies, universities, and venture capitalist firms." Read more...

My partner at Ideacodes, Max Kiesler, and I are back from attending Search Champs which took place this week, January 24 - 26 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Search Champs is an event hosted by the MSN Search team to invite "groups of academics, bloggers, siteowners, and technologists to talk about search... We usually select this group based on who we are reading and we think would provide us great insight. We spend a couple of days with the group showing them our future plans, getting their input and making connections." This year's group included 57 attendees, with various backgrounds and perspectives, but with a common interest in making the internet more democratic, usable, and read/writable. Read more...