Just registered for the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco end of April. I was there last year and although some sessions tend to be lengthy and masturbative, overall I liked the workshop and "hands-on" approach. So I decided to go again this year. Who is there as well, please let me know to catch up.
Apart from that I just checked out a service which is not entirely new, but still in closed Alpha, Loic LeMeur's Seesmic , a crossroad of Twitter & YouTube. I guess this is the best description for it. And it's really nice and somehow with lots of unassuming Flash-elements something like "Web 3.0". A conversational platform, asynchronous where most members just sit in front of their computer and speak some statement into the webcam. I started off with something about Castro stepping back from power in Cuba.
Others can reply so that a thread would evolve. What is smart: One can once enter one's Twitter access data and distribute every new post into that channel, too. I really like the ease of the service where it becomes immediately clear what to watch, what to do and how to join the conversation. And ultimately, one can rehearse a statement as often as desired before putting it really live. The only thing I was missing so far was the possibility to distribute the video e.g. in a blog by embedding it, at the moment really everything happens (apart from the Twitter-twist) in a world within. But maybe that's why it's actually called "Closed Alpha" :-)
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