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Just uploaded my (very amateur) pix of the party last night to my DEMO ’08 Flickr set. I’m including a few of ’em here….
We’re now starting the final day’s sessions here at 8:30 am — live streamed at DEMO.com. Watch me on Twitter for a running commentary (if it’s working today), including praise, snide remarks, and whatever… 🙂
Well, the presentations are over for the day. Now, into the exhibit area again. Wow, 39 companies and I think about 45 Tweets… 
Just go to www.Twitter.com/GraemeThickins to see them. And I’ll be back for more tomorrow! Tonight, we got the famous DEMO Jam Session, featuring six media and PR types jamming on stage in an ad hoc band. And iVideoSongs will be there, too (maybe with John Oates again? don’t know).
Since DEMO will be live streamed for the first time, I think I’ll skip the live blogging during the sessions, which I was never that fast at, anyway….and just Twitter! See me at www.Twitter.com/GraemeThickins.
I was just talking to Shel Israel about his new gig at Fast Company, Global Neighborhoods TV (GNT), and he said he’s never had so much traffic to his site on one day, ever, after he Twittered about it.
Here are some of my pix from the opening reception at DEMO ’08. The venue was great (again), and the turnout was big.
1) View from my window…. 
2) Let’s get this party started…. 
3) The mob converges…. 
4) The bar tries hard to keep up…. 
5) Gary Bolles and Dan Gillmor…. 
6) Dan Farber, Steve Larsen, Gary Bolles…. 
7) Kevin Dorren, Nigel Eccles (both of HubDub), Steve Larsen, Miko Mentz…. 
8) Renee Blodgett and Stuart Cohen of SpeakLike….
UPDATE 1/29: Oops, sorry, that was Sanford Cohen…it was late when I did this 🙂
Well, it hasn’t even started yet, but looking over the list, perusing the press room, and chatting with a few folks, these companies are some I definitely will be checking out…
• BitGravity – who can’t like the company with the technology that will be live streaming DEMO for the very first time? (watch DEMO.com starting tomorrow morning to see their work)
• Blist – world’s easiest database…makes relational database creation and management as easy as using a spreadsheet
• HubDub – DEMO describes this one as a brilliant marriage of news aggregation and prediction markets, and these guys came all the way from Edinburgh…great Scot!
• Livescribe – a new kind of content creation tool (how could I not like that?)…its Pulse Smartpen is a computer in a pen that records and links audio to what you write on paper (ooooh)
• Redux – a new concept in social networking, using a unique set of algorithms based on user actions and personality preferences
That’s just a start. There are 77 presenters! More soon….
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