I'll be there this year for the first time. Anyone else planning to go to PubCon 2008 from DP? Those who are not aware of what it is, can find detailed info about PubCon at www.pubcon.com
Speakers? To give a few examples of past speakers; Matt Cutts (Google Inc. Software Engineer), Jeremy Shoemaker (shoemoney), Owen Byrne (digg.com Co-Founder), Monte Cahn (Moniker.com CEO), MeL Carson (Microsoft adCenter Community Manager), Andrew Chen (Yahoo! Inc. Director Products Manager, Yahoo! Shopping), Patrick Gavin (TextLinkAds Inc. President), Shuman Ghosemajumder (Google AdSense Business Product Manager), Philip Kaplan (AdBrite Co-Founder, CEO), Craig Newmark (Craig's List Founder), Emily White (Google Inc., AdWords Support Manager) and many many more.. http://www.pubcon.com/bios/
yea, but beside meeting those people, what's the point? They talk about stuff that is either on the web already or will be on the web (as ppl attended pubcon are going to blog about it) I would like to go if i need to network with those ppl (already doing that with facebook) but since i don't, not interested (and how much you have to pay for it?)
You know it's not the same I'd rather listen to them live, see them speaking. No one can blog about the exact things they spoke about now, can they? Plus, meeting them is not that easy on the internet, not at all. I believe it's a great organisation. Last year, it was $500, I don't know about this year. Doesn't matter anyway