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                              <p>I am at the end of my first day at DLD08 which has been quite fascinating I have to say. The place is fantastic, the organisation seems to be very well handled and last but not least, the list of speakers is tremendous.</p><p>As usual with this kind of conference, it's a very good networking place, one out of these annual opportunities to meet online and offline friends between to sessions (already met Andrew P, Andrew C, Rodrigo, Loic, Jos&eacute;, Nicole, Gabe, Heiko...). There is a free open wifi which is working with some interruptions, so you'd better blog quick...</p><p>I've spent some time scanning the speakers bios and the list of the company they are going to represent during these days, some of them are below, with very interesting models and projects:  </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.allofme.com/" target="_blank">allofme.com</a>  </li><li><a href="http://www.admob.com" target="_blank">Admob.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.mydeco.com/" target="_blank">Mydeco.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.noovo.com/" target="_blank">Noovo.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.bebo.com" target="_blank">Bebo.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.outblaze.com" target="_blank">Outblaze.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.pangeaday.org/" target="_blank">Pangeaday.org</a></li></ul><p>I've had to setup a new Flickr account to host the pictures I'll take during these 3 days as Yahoo!/Flickr have not been able to help me recover my old account except via an automatic answer and recovery system which is of course never working when you've lost both password and ID... So my new one is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23006756@N04/" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p>Very short and non prepared discussion with <a href="http://www.alianzo.com" target="_blank">Jos&eacute;</a> on social media in Spain below, not to be taken too seriously, the main idea was to get some details about his next project but he didn't say any word, damn... </p>  <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="333" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://vpod.tv/gdugardier/410977/flash/videoPlayer" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="wmode" value="" /><embed src="http://vpod.tv/gdugardier/410977/flash/videoPlayer" wmode="" quality="high" menu="false" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="333" height="250"></embed></object>  <p>(sorry for the background noise...)</p>
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                                    Mate, just to make you aware I lost your feed after Webjam migrated to Strawberry. I had to subscribe it again. I assume I'm not the only one. Good for you that you're in Germany these days!
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                                    <em>written on 21-Jan-2008</em>
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                                    WTF... That's not my picture!!! :-(
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                                    <em>written on 21-Jan-2008</em>
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                                    @ironmauro: thanks for letting me know, and sorry for the picture...;o) I'll let them know...!
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                                    Hi,<br />sorry about that. We're on the bug. Thanks a lot for your patience.
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