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The Supernova Conference June 20-22 San Francisco, CA

Check out the 2007 Supernova Conference produced in partnership with the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.  Should be a great event for those who can make it to San Francisco.  The speaker list is outstanding.  The Supernova Connected Innovators hosted by Techcrunch is especially interesting to Strategy+Solutions.  Check all of this out and register today.

News from the Big D Event

So what's SSI's take on the 5th annual Wall Street Journal D conference?  Some interesting news about the lovefest between Bill and Steve but the news that captivates is the company Mahalo (means "thank you" in Hawaiian).  The D conference in Carlsbad, CA reveled this new gem which is a search service that is vetted by humans.  As ClickZ puts it : "Mahalo combines human-edited results pages for fat-head search queries with Google's long-tail results and ads." Check out Amazon's Mechanical Turk for comparison. The site currently launched in Alpha with the Internet's 4,000 most popular search terms completed with a goal of 10,000 by the end of '07.  Mahalo is lead backed by Sequioa and NewsCorp.  Other investors include CBS, HubertBurdenMedia, Allen & Company, Mark Cuban and Fred Wilson. Jason Calacanis the CEO is a tech heavyweight with several successes under his belt.  Check out this interview for more information. This company is definitely worth watching and using!

Where 2.0 Conference

Another exciting event is coming real soon.  Check out and plan to attend the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose if you can make it!

From the website:

"The third annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. There's no better place to meet the people behind the mash-ups and platforms, and the folks looking ahead to the future of geospace. Where 2.0 is the one place where corporate decision-makers can meet the people building the next wave of location- and mapping-enabled technology; where CTOs swap ideas with grassroots developers building mash-ups; where community activists network with venture capitalists looking for the next investment opportunity. Learn more about Where 2.0.

Where 2.0 takes place May 29-30, 2007 at the Fairmont in San Jose, California. Join us to debate and discuss what's viable now, and what's lurking just below the radar. When it comes to location technology, it's not just the place, it's the people. Register Now.

Coming early? Join us at Ignite, happening Monday evening, May 28. Or, staying on after Where 2.0 concludes? Be sure to sign up for the Google Dev Day, happening Thursday, May 31. "

Web 2.0 Expo

This a friendly reminder to our readers to check out the Web 2.0 Expo.  This event should be a fantastic gathering for anyone who needs to learn more about Web 2.0 and how this technology can be leveraged to enhance small and medium business performance.  The following is a brief write up about this exciting event:

Web 2.0 Expo is an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. The Web 2.0 Expo is co-presented by CMP Technology and O'Reilly Media.

The Web continues to be an engine of economic growth, fueled by a host of new business models, development models, and design patterns that collectively fall under the umbrella of Web 2.0, a term coined at the birth of the Web 2.0 Conference, a joint venture between O’Reilly Media and CMP Technology.

To meet the increasing demand for Web 2.0 comprehension and skills, and to build a broader Web 2.0 community, O'Reilly Media and CMP Technology have launched the first Web 2.0 Expo on April 15-18, 2007 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Web 2.0 Expo, a companion event to the Web 2.0 Conference (recently renamed Web 2.0 Summit), is the first conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies. "

Great Event for SMB's Embracing Office 2.0

This Under the Radar event is fantastic for folks who follow this blog and are seeking more knowledge on how Office 2.0 can enhance your organization.

Under the Radar: Why Office 2.0 Matters

March 23, 2007 | 8:00am - 6:00pm | Mountain View, CA | Microsoft Campus

Did you get the memo? The 2.0 phenomena isn't replacing the office - it's just making it more productive. Whether you call it Office 2.0 or Office 3.0, a new generation of productivity tools is reinvigorating the way we work, and more importantly, the way we work together. The TPS report may still be mandatory, but this time it will be a collaborative online document, cutting expenditures, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency. Lumbergh may still need you to work on Saturday, but this time you can do it from home via web-based spreadsheets and documents, instant message client, VOIP, and a whole host of next-generation tools.

Join us on March 23, 2007 for Under the Radar: "Why Office 2.0 Matters". We will showcase 32 emerging, disruptive technologies that are changing the office landscape in sectors such as organization, collaboration, tracking, publishing, communicating, personalizing, and syncing. From the industry experts and pundits to the company presentations and audience feedback, you will learn about the future of office 2.0 - its challenges and opportunities, from SMB and enterprise adoption to the monetization of services.

CONFIRMED PRESENTERS:
Approver | Blogtronix | Brainkeeper | Cogenz | ConceptShare | ConnectBeam | Diigo | EditGrid | Firestoker | InvisibleCRM | Koral | Longjump | Mashery | My Payment Network | Proto Software | Scrybe |  Sitekreator | Slideaware | Smartsheet | Spresent | Stikkit | System One | Terapad | Teqlo | TimeSearch Inc. (Calgoo) | Tungle | Vyew | WorkLight | Wrike | Wufoo | Xcellery 

Fireside Chat with David Allen, Author, Getting Things Done