Gada.be is favorite tool for watching event coverage

by on March 20, 2006

Shannon Clark of the meshforum conference just wrote me and reminded me about gada.be. I keep forgetting about that tool that lets you watch a variety of search services all from one search. Here’s Gada.be’s result for Mix06.

  • You have dinner with it's creator often - yet you forget about one of his most recent projects? Granted your busy - but busy enough to forget popular projects your friends are working on? Seems odd to me.
  • Iggy: I use it on my mobile phone, it takes a while for things to stick in my brain.

    Heck, it took my dad (he has a PhD) two years to start using Google after I kept telling him about it.
  • buddy
  • What might blow you away is http://gada.be/a/mix06/opml :) Of course, not every feed would be germane.
  • Amazon's A9 does much the same thing - and it's very handy.
  • Nice blog!!!! ^_^
  • Christopher Coulter
    Heh, funny how nothing for MICROSOFT Convergence. You know, that 'other' conference this week -- Dallas, ring a bell? Typical bloggers... ;) Doug Burgum still keynoting? What a trip that's gonna be. But just Jeff and Bill doing the rah rah stick-up trying to infuse life into the rebranded more-than-half-dead MBS.
  • Tom
    Very interesting tool ;-)
  • Innocent Bystander
    Seems the mix06 conference wasn't the huge draw MS would have us believe. Sold out? They had to pay people to come.

    "One Web designer from Washington, who asked not to be identified, said Microsoft is courting his company and even paid the way for him and his colleagues to attend the show."

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060320/tc_pcw...

    Lovely bit of astroturf there.
  • Robert

    A little off topic but found out that tomorrow is 'World Water Day'. Walks in 11 US cities including I believe Seattle will highlight the fact that many people (mostly women) in developping countries have to walk up to 6 miles a day to get water.
    This topic must be of interest to chairman Bill.
    I wrote a post about it today.
    Here is the link
    http://sergetheconcierge.typepad.com/stc/2006/0...
    You can also take part as a virtual walker and promote the event with a Blog Button.
    Take care

    Serge
    Biz:
    http://www.njconcierges.com
    Blog:
    http://sergetheconcierge.typepad.com
  • Every conference that Microsoft holds always includes some folks that get to attend for free. I think that has ALWAYS been the case. Any conference held by any vendor (not a conference company- big difference here) always includes attendees that get to attend for free- it is an investment in customers and is certainly designed to gain some mindshare- no one should ever apologize for that. This is nothing new, and certainly not akin to astroturfing.
  • Randy, that's true that many conferences have comps, mostly for speakers. But I've been hearing from many folks here at the event that Microsoft offered them a Vegas vacation, far more attendees than I've heard of from any conference before.

    I've been trying to quantify this but haven't had the gumption to directly ask random people about it. Have you seen any public stats about what percentage of attendees invested their own funds (or their company's funds) to attend, and how many had their way paid by Microsoft? Could put this speculation to rest, thanks.

    (Interestingly, a lot of the people I met Monday who said they received airfare, hotel and free attendence were MIA for Tuesday sessions... granted that many creative professionals also have an extraordinarily high capacity for partying, but still....)

    j "adobe paid my way" d
  • Christopher Coulter
    Oh I know the Mashuppers got tix, and my pressy sources said lots (more than normal) got the full package. The thing that made this one stand out, was the airfare and hotel. Normally free tickets are half the scam, one half lifting the other half, but few include the full meal deal. It's just like anything Microsoft tho, they have to pay double or triple or go seriously into Xbox-like debt, to get people interested. But this was more a launch party for their AJAXy tool, than a real conference. Looking at it that way, not surprising the high #'s of Vegas vacations.

    I am still amazed however, how low-key the run up promoing to Convergence has been (even to the target audiences), MBS needs better marketing, well then MBS needs LOTS of things. ;)
  • Bob
    Neat site. The blog search very comprehensive.

    You know, I think your blog should be 'stickier'! I (for one) hate getting forced off a site if I forget to use right-click - open in new tab/window and just click on a link.

    This is probably a stupid question but do you know you can add target="_blank" to links and have the link open in another window? Like this Click me!
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