Conference Buddies

Google I/O is a 2 day developer conference in San Francisco, Wednesday & Thursday, May 28 to 29, 2008.

This conference is geared toward developers wanting to develop applications that integrate with any of Google’s applications.

The latest buzz involves the public launch of several development tools to create any type of web application (not just for google) which is geared toward Web 2.0 Social Applications, such as Google App Engine which provides a full development environment to build, test and host new web applications for free.  Registration is now open to the public.

Major programming languages supported are Java, AJAX, and PHP.   Phython is also used within Shindig for their new Open Social project, which is standardizing widget or mini-application plug-in development for Social Applications (where you build once and can launch on various social websites without rebuilding 100% of the code each time for each website – build once, use on many websites).  

You can visit the conference information at: 

http://code.google.com/events/io/ 

Where 2.0
May 12-14, 2008
Burlingame, CA

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), also known as Geospatial technologies, has developed quickly over the last half decade.   Applications like Google or Yahoo Maps, as well as applications that display location based offline information now online is one of the hottest trends in technology.  Where is my closest Starbucks or retail store?  As well as a multitude of applications for this technology.

“Where 2.0″ is the place to be for those developers or investors interesting in online location based technologies.

For more information you can visit:
http://en.oreilly.com/where2008/public/content/home

Miva Merchant
February 28 & 29, March 1, 2008
San Diego, CA

Miva Merchant is one of the most affordable and flexible E-Commerce shopping cart software available today for small businesses. You can find many hosting companies offering Miva Merchant as an option for installation.

The platform now supports PHP & MySQL and has storefronts that can scale upwards of hundreds of thousands of transactions per month.  Miva Merchant has been resurrected as is now a separate business entity from Miva.com which is now strictly a search engine business.

To find more information about Miva Merchant go to MivaMerchant.com, or to find more information about their conference, visit http://www.mivamerchant.com/conference_2008/.

Search Marketing Expo – SMX West
Santa Clara, California
February 10-12, 2008
At the Santa Clara Convention Center

A great conference to attend for Search Engine Marketers.   SMX is a new chain of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) conferences started by Danny Sullivan, the original personality behind the first chain of SEM conferences, Search Engine Strategies (SES).   The difference between SMX and SES is that SES has been geared more toward the beginner in many areas, while SMX is tackling more cutting edge topics.

For more informaiton about SMX visit their website:
http://searchmarketingexpo.com/
http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west/

BlogWorld
Las Vegas, NV
Sept 20-21, 2007

The very first conference for Bloggers!

This started by a group of event organizers that noticed that Bloggers like themselves did not have a forum to meet in person, ergo, BlogWorld 2007.

2007 Photos:
http://www.blogworldexpo.com/Gallery/Gallery.html?Itemid=0

2007 Video Clips:
http://www.blogworldexpo.com/Blogworld-07-Videos.html