Upcoming appearances

Next week I'm speaking at the 10th annual Israel Internet Association Conference: Connecting the Dots, in Tel Aviv. I'll be giving a tutorial on the "Anatomy of a Web 2.0 Application." I'm really looking forward to the trip, as I've never been to Israel. The talk has also proven a great forcing function for me to figure out what I think about all the discussion of what the term "Web 2.0" means, if anything. I'm happy to say I have something to say about that, and am interested to see what the ISOC attendees think of it. (If you read Hebrew, an Israeli newspaper published an interview with me about the talk, and used some of the talented Duncan Davidson's photos in it.)

I'm also speaking at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies conference (a.k.a. ETech) again this year. I'll be reprising and revising my popular "Business for Geeks" tutorial, which I was gratified to find sold out at OSCon last year. I've had fun giving these talks, and think it's a nice specialty to have built up -- turning engineers into better company founders (I hope!). I'm also leading a fun pseudo-competition called the Data Dump, where we're getting people running some great web applications to take five minutes to show us something they've learned from the usage of their sites. We have participants from Flickr, Technorati, Feedburner, and others I'm forgetting at the moment signed up. It's looking like the results will be amazing. If you know someone who should be participating, yourself included, drop me a line (my first name at the obvious domain).

If you'll be at either event, come up and introduce yourself.