I’m very excited about the upcoming Mashup Camp 2 down in Silicon Valley July 12 and 13, and it’s NOT just because Yahoo is expected to have free martinis with blinking fake ice cubes at their party.

Mashup 1 was one of the most interesting and intense conferences I’ve ever done with about 300 wildly enthusiastic mashers showing off, watching, trading tips, and more.    Mashup 2 promises to be wildly interesting as well.  Mashup University will precede the two camp days and hopefully be a close up look at great stuff coming in from many API providers.   As always I’m looking for the travel holy grail, and I think we are getting closer as Bonosearch skeleton is now in place,ready for some travel related mashup inclusions and our travel focused search using Kinosearch.

Of course as Caterina Fake observed some time ago you Who’s talking to the users, writing the code, tweaking and retweaking the UI?  [hey, easy for Caterina to say – her (superb) company – Flickr -  already got bought up by Yahoo for tens of millions and she made the cover of Newsweek AND she gets to hang out with the amazing tech developers team at Yahoo.

But of course one can get so wrapped up in conferences that it’s hard to get work done.    I’ve done that this past year, so before Mashup Camp I’m getting off my butt and …  painting our house!    How’s that for techno convergence?

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