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I previously stated that I was going to post here from the ETech Conference, which is going on here in San Diego, but my horribly old laptop decided it would not boot. After many attempts... it finally booted up, only to inform me that I had 10% battery life left. Thus the lack of posts from the show. Uhg!

So - about the show :)

In a word, 'motivating.'

I've really enjoyed talking to so many people, on such a wide range of technology topics. For example, today at lunch, I sat down at a table with Jeff Han, who has an insanely impressive portfolio of projects . Jeff presented on Tuesday, showing his Multi-Touch Interaction Research - which you must check out. Jeff is bridging the worlds of Sci Fi and reality - his Multi-Touch interface/screen could be one of those catalysts that changes the world. I tend to see input devices as friction, and to some degree I feel the same about interfaces. This friction limits our experience, which in turn limits our perspective. Remove that friction, provide a fluid experience in it's place, and people should be able to utilize computers on a much higher level. If you saw Minority Report, you've already seen something similar to Jeff's project. Hit his site, check out the video.

Also at the table was John Smart, President of the Institute for the Study of Accelerating Change. John brought the conversation into a discussion about avatars for both 3D worlds and chat.

On Tuesday, I met and talked with Max Carlson, who is the 'Lead Runtime Architect' for Laszlo. That's some title! If you haven't heard of Laszlo, and you are involved with Web development or Web applications - do yourself a favor, and check out Laszlo. Max and his team have done a fabulous job with their product, which allows you to build Web apps and target them to the Flash player. But now they've extended it, and by the end of the year, it will also generate AJAX/dHTML. Woah! Here's a quote from their press release:

By the end of this year, developers using OpenLaszlo will have the option to deploy their applications using either Flash or Dynamic HTML (DHTML), an open-standard technology built into most Web browsers.

I also stopped by the SMS.AC booth and talked with Cara Thompson about their new API, which will allow you to develop for and target their users and earn revenue. It turns out that their service is most popular in other countries outside the US, like India and Brazil.

Tuesday night, Yahoo! sponsored a party. I tried the Yahootini - which is their own martini, but it was wayyyyyy tooooo sweet... so I had a beer :) Since there was music blasting at the far end of the party, I made my way down to check it out. I ended up hanging out with these guys from Canada, one of which was Rikc Klama - the Director or Product and Business Development for Monster.ca. We talked a bit about his industry and how Monster used to own a large amount of that market, and now how there's so many players in that space now.

Jumping back to today, I stopped by the Yahoo! booth and talked with Dan Theurer. When he told me what his job was, I was blow away. This guy has a sweet job - and here's the title: "Technical Evangelist Yahoo! Developer Network." Before you start thinking about what that means, first I'd like to point you to the vast number of API's that Yahoo! offers through their developer's site: http://developer.yahoo.net/ There's more than 20 APIs he gets to work with, and turn people onto - how cool is that? If you are a developer, it's extreemly cool.

I met Kevin Burton at the conference - he's already put a few notches on his Web belt, and is now bubbling up the Web once again with http://www.tailrank.com/. I gave Kevin a "Kiss My Rss" shrit - and within a few minutes, he turns his laptop to me and shows me his blog, where he just blogged about the shirt. Kevin was sitting next to Scott Rafer, CEO of Wireless Ink, who I taked to a bit about mobile tech. He was showing me a Google map that which displayed where people were chatting from on their site.

And now... I'm beat, it's midnight and I'll see you tomorrow :)