{"id":887,"date":"2009-03-11T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2009-03-25T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T09:20:25","slug":"see-you-at-sxsw-and-mix-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/see-you-at-sxsw-and-mix-09\/","title":{"rendered":"See you at SxSw and MIX ’09"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two years ago, working in a Web 2.0 startup was just an interesting dream as I listened to business lectures in Stockholm with @kikidonk<\/a> and @tlg<\/a> (they since then went on to start their own startup – KnowledgePlaza<\/a>) and @daveying99<\/a> who also has his own Sweden based startup. Since then a lot of things have happened. One of the more interesting discoveries was the biggest Web 2.0 party on the world – South By Southwest Interactive festival takes place each year in Austin, Texas and is the place to be if you’re in a Web industry. I’m very happy to say that this year I’m going!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have no idea what to expect, besides the usual things from US conference – huge conference halls, lots of people everywhere and uncountable friendly peeps. So I’m sure it’s going to be a blast. Do say Hi if you’re an anonymous reader of this blog and want to meet. Probably the best way to reach me is to @ me on twitter. I’m @gandalfar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The second event I’ll be visiting is Microsoft’s MIX<\/a> ’09 conference. This was totally unplanned, but Microsoft Slovenia was nice enough to invite me. It’s happening directly after the SxSW<\/a> so it’s just a stop by Las Vegas. I’ve yet to go to an international conference but I’ve heard great things about them. I’ll just have to hide my MacBook Air \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Third event and the most important is that my wonderful employer, @zemanta<\/a>, who is sponsoring all this for me, is going to have its first San Francisco developer meetup, together with Freebase<\/a> (event listing<\/a>).If you’re in the area on saturday, 21th, do drop by as we’re going to mash up all kinds of cool semantic and open data collections.<\/p>\n

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