Conference host: Mr Widget

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Well, Widgety Goodness is coming around again - but it’s now called WidgetWebExpo. It’s got bigger and better, with two days and two streams. This means we get to cover a lot more widgety goodness and to hear from more parts of our industry.
The next WidgetWebExpo will be in New York on June 16th and [...]

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Widgety Goodness afterparty with Techcrunch and the Brighton posse
Immediately following the event we will be holding a drinks reception in the same elegant building as the conference - a further opportunity for attendees to network, mingle and discuss the content of the day. This is sponsored by NixonMcInnes, Spannerworks, doof [...]

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We’re very pleased to announce that Matthew Trewhella, one of the engineers who’s worked very closely on OpenSocial, will be speaking at Widgety Goodness. His presentation will be “The Programmable Web”, and will cover the development of gadget applications and Web 2.0 and Google’s efforts in this space, including OpenSocial.

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Putting together a conference such as Widgety Goodness is an exhausting process - mainly because we decided at the start that we were going to do it very quickly and in realtime. That is, we knew things were moving fast in the widgetsphere and we wanted to be able to reflect that as we put [...]

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Susan Mernit (Yahoo, the Widgety Goddess) summed it up when she coined the phrase:

Welcome to the world of widgety goodness
It’s almost bibical.
Feeds(RSS) begat outliners(OPML)
Outliners begat tags
Tags began microformats
Microformats begat APIs
APIs begat widgets
Widgets begat start-ups
And the great mash up settled over the land.

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And how to get there from the station.

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Here’s an icon for you …

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The first European Widget Conference will be held in sunny Brighton in December 2007. More soonest.

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