I returned late Friday night from a week of networking and socializing that left me exhausted and ready for bed. Needless to say it was an awesome event that was jam packed with exciting “Web 2.0″ news and many of the web’s top names.

The expo took place from Tuesday to Friday. As it is one of the larger expo’s of the year the attendees were in no short supply. Etelos, Microsoft and IBM took the big booths and scattered amongst the crowd were companies like Coghead, Mashable, Bungee Connect, Technorati and yours truly, MindTouch. As always we didn’t let the other vendors get in our way. Everything from our live demos to our 6′ rabbit had people swarming to us. Fortunately for us the most common response was “wow”.

I wasn’t able to attend any of the sessions, however, my twitter friends kept me fully informed. Coincidentally, there was apparently a terrific session on twitter and I thought the deliverance was fairly innovative. The presenter kept a full screen view of his twitter account on the screen and addressed questions from the audience as they were tweeted in. Fairly unique if you ask me!

As was expected, the late night agenda of socializing was plentiful. Tuesday night was the Digg Party, Wednesday the Mashable/Chi.mp party and Thursday was the highly talked about NetVibes party. Each event seemed to be a who’s who of social media as technology leaders and “weblebrity’s” were everywhere. I personally enjoyed the NetVibes event the most which closed down around 2am and was packed with technology superstars. Fortunately the only commonality between the events were the MindTouch stickers plastered all over everyone and everywhere.

Overall Web 2.0 proved to be one of the better events of the year. I met a ton of great people and MindTouch was undeniably very noticed. Our next big show is OSCON which takes place in mid July in Portland, Oregon. If you’re going to be there drop me an email (damienH[at]mindtouch.com) and I’ll make sure I bring you one of our infamous “rabbits” t-shirts.

Damien Howley
DamienH[at]mindtouch.com

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