Last week I've been at
MBC09, a conference about all things microblogging. It was organized by
Cem Basman, who not only managed to get very
interesting speakers on stage, but also a report into Germany's main TV news.
The conference started slowly, with a little underwhelming sponsored keynotes, but then quickly turned into a great source for inspiration, thanks to barcamp-style tracks during the rest of the conference. I particularly enjoyed the session about
Communote (a microblogging system for corporate use), a talk by Marco Kaiser about near-client XMPP at
seesmic, and a panel about "Twitter and Journalism" (really entertaining panel speakers).
As usual, I pulled a near-all-nighter to hack on a funky demo, only to get on stage and have a projector that didn't like MacBooks. Luckily, I was co-speaking with
Sebastian Kurt who had slides for using Twitter as an interface to remote apps (todo list management and similar things), so I didn't have to fill the whole 30 mins stuttering about demos that no one could see. Anyway, given the circumstances, the session didn't go too badly. Interestingly, the Zemanta and Calais APIs triggered most of the questions.
I've now uploaded my slides (and added some screenshots of the demo prototypes), in case you're interested in this stuff or wonder what I
would have talked about, or if you didn't see the demos after the session.