We think its a shame, but we haven't been able to come to reasonable commercial terms with the show organizers.
We thought the blogger lounge was a great feature of last year's show
If you think so - I encourage you to tell the show organizers. Whether they do it with us, someone else, or do it themselves -- we wish it would be seen by them as an important part of the show experience.
-Ted Shelton
tshelton@theconversationgroup.com
The Conversation Group's Chris Heuer speaks with Clay Shirky, author of "Here Come's Everybody" in the Blogtropol.us Lounge, April, 2008.
As you may know -- there is a booth crawl at 4:30pm
What you may not know -- there is a scavenger hunt
Here is how it works! You must take 5 (five) photos
Each of the photos are of something different, on the floor of the convention center
The photos must be uploaded to Flickr AND:
(1) tagged web2expoboothcrawl
(2) submitted to the group "Booth Crawl Scavenger Hunt"
And when your photos are there you must send a twitter message that says:
"@blogtropolus - web 2 booth crawl scavenger completed by" and include your Flickr username
Prizes for the best photos will be awarded on FRIDAY and includes software donated by Adobe, tickets to an upcoming Giants game donated by Something Simpler Systems, and more...
The Blogtropol.us blogger lounge is in full swing and its a great place to be! The afternoon massage has started again, the twitter quiz is running, and content creators from all over the place; Sweden, Chile, England, and even the far regions of the Silicon Valley are joining us.
David Spark has conducted several interviews here in the lounge including some time with Dan Farber, Rafe Needleman, and John Furrier and Ross Mayfield as well as tour of the lounge. Thanks for broadcasting, David!
Listen to our podcast with Guda Venkatesh, CEO of Vysr, a Web 2.0 application that lets consumers take their Web services and social networks with them, wherever they go on the Web.
Available now as a beta download for the Firefox browser, Vysr brings widget-like applications for weather, stock quotes and maps to the side of your browser window, providing functionality without having to navigate to a new tab or a new page.
(To listen to the podcast via phone, call 1-218-936-7903, access code 865214. This is NOT a free call; you will be charged normal long distance fees to call the midwest U.S.)
Listen to our podcast with Alex Cory, CEO of Global Conference Partners, the fine folks behind InstantConference, the service we are using for our podcasts here at the Web 2.0 Expo!
Alex talks about bringing ease of use and low costs to the conferencing market, enabling new services and new customer markets through an aggressive application of new technology and good old-fashioned agreements for solid telecom services on the back end.
(To listen to the podcast via phone, call 1-218-936-7903, access code 695595. This is NOT a free call; you will be charged normal long distance fees to call the midwest U.S.)
Listen to our podcast with Trevor Baca, vice president of software engineering at Jaduka, as he talks about using Web services APIs to enable content fulfillment and transaction services for mobile media.
Jaduka, which is known for enabling communications within Web applications, announced its content-fulfillment plans at the Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco.
(To listen to the podcast via phone, call 1-218-936-7903, access code 603650. This is NOT a free call; you will be charged normal long distance fees to call the midwest U.S.)
We had a great first day at the lounge, and we're set for more exciting events today, including live streaming Daily Show with Chris Heuer, another Snappy Hour, a scavenger hunt in conjunction with the Booth Crawl on the Expo Floor and more. Can't wait to see you HERE. In the meantime, take
a look at yesterday's party.
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