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Thursday, April 19, 2007 I got back late last night from San Francisco, and really enjoyed my week out there.  It was great seeing some former colleagues and friends like Colin, Justin, and Jim D.  I was pleasantly surprised at the overflow crowd at my session, and really enjoyed the time I spent with our Open AIM partners.  However, the conference was a little thin on material.  Web 2.0 was sold as being a 1400 person conference full of primarily developers and product managers, but what we saw was 10000 people who were marketing and business folks.  It is sort of anti-climatic when we release some great stuff at the conference like a new Open AIM SDK and openAuth, yet people came up to us asking what a mashup was.  While there were technologists at the conference, it definitely felt like some of the sessions were re-hashes of previous presentations and of "older" technologies.  Overall it was a great trip out west, and interfacing with folks from Google, Yahoo, EBay, and others always inspires me to write some cool new plugins.  Here are some pictures I took at during the week.  The trip went as far south as the beach in Aptos all the way to Crissy Field and the Presidio.




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• #1 Comment from dickgroper 
  4/20/07 5:59 PM | Permalink

  Nice picture of the hotel crapper.  Very exotic.  I guess you left your fart in San Francisco.