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DEMO Bono boner
Hey, just wanna alert you all that no, Bono is not at this week's DEMO conference in San Diego. There's just some dude who actually looks more like Robin Williams wearing a VR helmet. He fooled plenty of attendees, including PC Mag writers, who later figured out that the U2 star is actually in New York this week. (Is the conference worth going to anyway? No.) More »
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Gizmodo's Brian Lam snaps pics at the DEMO conference
Gizmodo editor Brian Lam is camping out today at the Web 2.0-heavy DEMO Conference, an orgy of product demos, promising his readers some liveblog action. So far there're no DEMO details on Gizmodo, but BLam keeps e-mailing me potshots. The above is the dude fumbling his Thinkpad while demoing software product MojoPac. BLam says: More »
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Make stuff up and we could all win a monitor!
The organizers of the recent Future of Web Apps Summit (a chance for speakers to talk about the past of web apps) recently e-mailed to ask what I thought of the summit. Well I didn't go; neither did you, you have a day job. But the e-mail says I could "win a luscious 23 inch monitor!" More »
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Kind-of-liveblogging a kind-of-speech: Taunting Michael Arrington at the Future of Web Apps Summit until we get bored
Are you at the exciting Future of Web Apps Summit? Oh, you have work to do instead? Well the founder of community site Metafilter is there, and he's heckling over IM: More »
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Scoop: PC Forum is over forever
PC Forum, the long-running tech conference, is shutting down, according to inside sources. More »
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Sun Microsystems, powered by HP
Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard have always been, well, less than friends. As one journalist puts it, "'Mortal enemies' doesn't even begin to cover it." But the platform developer loves a good conference — as evidenced by JavaOne and Supernova. So, according to a tipster, they did the business equivalent of Scarlett Johanson borrowing lipstick from Lindsay Lohan. More »Waggable: Credibility is like virginity
Disappointingly, workshop attendees at the Supernova 2006 conference are too busy being productive to spread much gossip. There were, however, some classic overheard lines. More »
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How to survive Mash Pit, Supernova, Bloggercon, and BarCamp this week
Hoo boy, four San Francisco conferences in one week! Starting with today's MashPit, this week is a con junkie's dream, as long as you have a guide to getting through. More »
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