Of course, if you want to skip the talks, perhaps you can just go to the parties. I hear the web crowd can get pretty wild for the camera.
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www.thenextweb.org
The Next Web
done with the dorky
Expected speakers include Nicolas Negroponte (co-founder of the MIT media laboratory), Kevin Mitnick (hacker, since released from prison), Marc Andreessen (founder of Netscape) and Steven Pemberton (W3C/CWI).