Confabb opens to conference attendees, speakers, planners (video)
Yesterday I was at Dave Winer’s house and got an early look at Confabb, a Web 2.0 site that just opened this morning.
Since I’ve been involved in planning, attending, or speaking at dozens of conferences and expos and other events this was very interesting to me.
In a few minutes I’ll have a demo and interview with founder Salim Ismail up on ScobleShow. UPDATE: the interview is up (latest Quicktime required). By the way, that was done on Dave Winer’s “RSS couch.” Demo coming shortly is up now.
Is this a cool demo? Nah, not like last week’s Photosynth. Will it put Microsoft out of business? Nah. But is it something that you will probably use? I think so, at least if you’re going to go to a conference.
I’ll definitely use it to update the CES 2007 site on Confabb and add mention of our BlogHaus, which will be in the Bellagio there (Seagate, Microsoft, and AMD are sponsoring that).
Of course TechCrunch has a mention of it up already.
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November 13th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
[...] He’s also got a video interview of Salim up here. Full post here. [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Hey Robert,
Great interview - jeez the camera has added many pounds (do I look that plump?)
One small edit request: my last name is spelt ‘Ismail’ (my blog being, of course, “you’ve got ismail”).
November 13th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Salim, yikes, I got it right in the video. Will fix that here and on the blog.
November 13th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
[...] As seen on Scobleizer.com and on Techcrunch.com, Confabb.com has opened it’s doors for business. Why am I posting about this when two of the biggest tech blogs have already done just that? The answer is simple… [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
I just got my badge for CES with coupons for Box Lunches!
As you know I go to many conferences, when will anyone find the time to add content to confabbb?
November 13th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
[...] Confabb just launched today. The place to find conferences and seminars. This is something I know that Mr. Business Golf will be hitting up hard in the very near future. Not only did we get a nice TechCrunch overview of it, the Scobleizer blog has a video posted. [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
[...] Robert Scoble shares my view (he was first, actually), and TechCrunch has a very in-depth discussion up. [...]
November 14th, 2006 at 6:05 am
[...] Confabb is a new service that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences. It’s already covered by TechCrunch and Scoble. Dave Winer is an investor in it. [...]
November 14th, 2006 at 7:38 am
I couldn’t find DevConnections the conference I attended last week with 5000 other people.
Have a good look at the conferences that are listed, print a copy and read it out loud at a comedy club, they’ll be laughing for hours!
November 15th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
[...] and from Scobleizer: Since I’ve been involved in planning, attending, or speaking at dozens of conferences and expos and other events this was very interesting to me. [...]
November 23rd, 2006 at 7:18 pm
[...] Unusually it has been set up over six months by four part-timers… at no cost! Like most tech start-ups it is currently very US centric, but that doesn’t need to remain the case (see Scoble blog and video demo). Confabb hopes to take online support to conferences to a new level, this is one US start-up that could potentially support our operations. [...]
December 7th, 2006 at 10:35 am
[...] and from Scobleizer: Since I’ve been involved in planning, attending, or speaking at dozens of conferences and expos and other events this was very interesting to me. [...]
September 27th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
[...] I’m intrigued. Two years ago, I tried something like this — a repository of interesting conferences and local Seattle events — using TypePad as a database. My students didn’t seem interested enough to add content, and it was too much work for a solo effort. Community is a Good Thing for a project like this. Hmm. How to add a custom RSS feed about Seattle events to a web page … (tip) [...]