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BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.

Event Details

Saturday, November 14, 2009, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Martin Luther King Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

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• See who's blogged about BarCamp DC
• Learn more about the BarCamp unconference concept

Saw the tweets from @barcampdc this morning. Take a look at the revamped barcampdc.org website. We can't wait!

Twitter is transforming business, government and the non-profit world. At TWTRCON DC 09, a one-day conference focused entirely on the business use of Twitter, you’ll see case studies and learn best practices from leading organizations that are using the real-time web to deliver measurable results.

Register for TWTRCON DC 09 and:

• Learn how to use Twitter to listen and respond to customers and stakeholders
• Find out how micro-blogging can influence opinions, increase organizational collaboration and create new business opportunities
• Network and share ideas with leading business, marketing, media, PR and government executives, key Twitter developers and social media experts

Featured conference speakers include:

Michael Dilorenzo NHL @umassdilo|@NHL	Craig Newmark craigslist @craignewmark	Laura Fitton www.oneforty.com @pistachio	Joe Trippi Joe Trippi & Associates @JoeTrippi
Joshua Karpf PepsiCo @jkarpf|@pepsico	Charles Best DonorsChoose.org @CharlesBest	Steve Rubel Edelman Digital @steverubel	Michael O’Connor myallo.com @lepton
Amy Reed Chick Downtown @chickdowntown	David Puner Dunkin’ Brands @dunkindonuts	Nigel Dessau AMD @nigeldessau	Alan Murray The Wall Street Journal @alansmurray|@wsj
Scott Gulbransen Intuit @prgully|@turbotax	Clay Johnson Sunlight Labs @cjoh	Ambre Morley Novo Nordisk @racewithinsulin	Scott Harrison charity:water @scottharrison
Brian Dresher USA Today @bdresher|@usatoday	Jessica Lee APCO Worldwide @jessica_lee|APCOjobs	Kerry Noone Sodexo USA @SodexoCareers	Rohit Bhargava Ogilvy 360 Digital @rohitbhargava
Rick Bakas St. Supéry Vineyards @RickBakas	David Armano Dachis Corporation @armano	Andrew Wilson, HHS @andrewpwilson @FluGov|@HHSgov	John Shea FEMA @femainfocus
Susan McPherson PR Newswire @LittleMac1	Dan Luxenberg FDA @FDArecalls	Christopher J. Doborek Federal News Radio @cdorobek	Jonathon Linner Brightkite @Brightkite
Darren Koenig Tele Atlas @TeleAtlas

Hosted by:

Tonia Ries Modern Media @tonia_ries

TWTRCON SF 09

TWTRCON SF 09 photo courtesy of Jerad Hill

Click here to see information about our first event, TWTRCON SF 09.

Will Google's Wave Replace E-Mail—and Facebook?

That's how big Google's vision is for its Wave social-networking/search service, which will have apps created by independent developers who sell them at a Google app store

By Olga Kharif

Google has big plans for Google Wave, its new online communication service—and they won't all come from Google.

The Web search giant is hoping that software developers far and wide will create tools that work in conjunction with Wave, making an already multifaceted service even more useful. Google (GOOG) is even likely to let programmers sell their applications through an online bazaar akin to Apple's App Store, the online marketplace for games and other applications designed for the iPhone. "We'll almost certainly build a store," Lars Rasmussen, the Google software engineering manager who directs the 60-person team in Sydney, Australia, that created Wave, told BusinessWeek.com. "So many developers have asked us to build a marketplace—and we might do a revenue-sharing arrangement."

Combining instant messaging, e-mail, and real-time collaboration, Wave is an early form of so-called real-time communication designed to make it easier for people to work together or interact socially over the Internet. Google started letting developers tinker with Wave at midyear and then introduced the tool on a trial basis to about 100,000 invited users starting on Sept. 30. Invitations were such a hot commodity that they were being sold on eBay (EBAY). For Google the hope is that Wave, once it's more widely available, will replace competing communications services such as e-mail, instant messaging, and possibly even social networks such as Facebook.

If Wave takes off, applications created by outside developers could make it more useful, and an app store would give those programmers and their financial backers a share in Wave's success. Already, independent software developers have built and tested Wave applications that handle such tasks as teleconferencing, videoconferencing, and multiplayer gaming....

Not sure how I feel about Sidewiki yet. I will explore today and post details in this post tomorrow.

Doug Crockford - TechTalk @ Google - Feb 27, 2009