
Last week I attended the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC held by O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb. I’ve wanted to attend this conference for a while now and finally had the opportunity to go this year. Overall this was both one of the better conferences that I’ve attended, and probably one of the worst expos as well (more on this later). In this post I’ll walk you through, from a very high level, my experience at the Web 2.0 Expo and what I thought about the event.
All this week, Constant Contact will be at TechCrunch Disrupt. Throughout the week (Mon-Wed), I’ll be updating the presentations and what the buzz is through our blog. Stay tuned for updates if you aren’t able to be there! I’ll be commenting on the technology and how it will impact Small Businesses and Organizations.
*** Views expressed by Conference speakers are in no way a reflection on Constant Contact, Constant Contact Labs or myself (unless I say they are my views
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I attended the Social Graph Symposium 2010 http://socialgraphsymp.com/ last week. This was an event hosted by Microsoft & Rapleaf rapleaf.com and was a full day focused on a range of topics and issues involving social media, social networking, the overall social graph and societal implications. There was some great discussion and some conflicting opinions on where this will be leading us. I think it is safe to say that everyone there agrees that the implications of the social graph are significant for business, for politics and for society in general.

On Monday, I went to the Evening of Mobile Startups at the MIT Museum and talked to a bunch of early stage mobile startups. It was a pretty interesting event, giving a pretty good snapshot of “what is hot” in the mobile space. In the rest of the article I’ll discuss the things that I noticed and some of my own personal take on things.
Learned new tools from my business.