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What Tech Conference to Attend?

Richard MacManus asks “which tech conferences should I attend?” I almost answered giving my opinion. But there’s a FAR BETTER way for him to figure that out than ask me what I think. It’s called “Upcoming.org.”

Even Ballmer cant get into Gnomedex

It's sold out. So is BlogHer. So is BloggerCon. Hmm, something is happening here.

Podcasts Grow More Interactive

A number of items have crossed my desk that lead me to conclude that podcasts are growing more and more interactive, a neat trick for a medium that has been decried as nothing more than glorified downloadable audio.

New way to Distribute Software...

Disclaimer: I got these for free to try out, although I'll be giving away both things at the Gnomedex conference in June.

A Higher Resolution Gnomedex Announced

Heheh, I ever expected Chris to take my advice.

What Conferences Should I Go To Next Year?

As of right now I have three big conferences on my 2006 calendar.

The RSS Orange Crush

Last week I met with Scott Gatz from Yahoo. He heads up personalization at Yahoo. Scott said something interesting: millions of My Yahoo users are subscribing to RSS feeds, but they don't even realize it.

Explaining it simply: Microsoft and RSS

Nearly all the reporting I've seen in blogs and mainstream media during the past 24 hours about Microsoft's support for RSS has tended to be rather techie in its focus, including my own post.

The press comes in on Gnomedex announcements

Google News is reporting 243 news articles about Microsoft's RSS announcements on Friday, including the Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, and many newspapers around the world (a coworker reports reading about the announcements in an Indian newspaper over the weekend).

Microsoft really embraces RSS

Lots of buzz in the blogosphere and in mainstream media about the news today that Microsoft will be building support for RSS into Longhorn, the next release of the Windows operating system due in late 2006, and not only in the next version of Internet Explorer.