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Megan reports on Om Malik's Widgets Live Con

Valleywag writer Megan McCarthy IMed me from today's Widgets Live conference, the first con held by blog network GigaOM: "This conference would be so much more exciting if it were about midgets." Later, we chatted about the event: More »

demo2006

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 »

cheaters

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 »

michael arrington

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 »

confabulous

Scoop: PC Forum is over forever

PC Forum, the long-running tech conference, is shutting down, according to inside sources. More »

sun microsystems

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

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 »

supernova

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 »

supernova

Why you're not at Supernova

Good morning and welcome to Conference Week, Waggers! Yes, this week brings such cons as Supernova, Bloggercon, Mashpit, Dorkbot, and BarCamp. You need no excuse for missing most of these, but Supernova has real speakers and all, and missing it requires an excuse. A local journalist shares this guide to copping out. More »