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Dawn Applegate

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Dawn Applegate is the Conferences Publicist for O'Reilly Media, Inc. A graduate of UC San Diego, Dawn has over 20 years experience working in the high-tech industry. A native of Sonoma County, Ms. Applegate has spent the majority of her life in the Bay Area working for firms such as J. Walter Thompson, Sun Microsystems and Hi-Tech PR. Her role with O'Reilly includes handling all media inquiries, passes, and details at O'Reilly Conferences as well as writing and distributing press releases for conference related news. Dawn also manages the news and information blogs for O'Reilly Conferences.

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News Release: Graphing Social Patterns West 2008: Registration Open!

December 19 2007

Okay social networkers, start your engines...the whistle has blown and registration is now open for Graphing Social Patterns West 2007: O'Reilly Launches "Graphing Social Patterns" Conference. GSP West to cover social networks, application platforms from Facebook, MySpace, Google, LinkedIn read more

News Release: Ubuntu Live Conference Call for Proposals Open

December 18 2007

The following press release regarding Ubuntu Live was released today: Ubuntu Live Conference: Taking it Further in 2008 read more

News Release: Registration is Live!

December 17 2007

It's now time to register for MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, here is the full press release: Program Unveiled for MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 read more

News Release: Program Unveiled for the O'Reilly ETech Conference

December 07 2007

Registration is now open for ETech 2008, here is the official press release: Keynote Speakers Include: Saul Griffith, Kathy Sierra, Lawrence Lessig, Tim O'Reilly, and Alex Steffen read more

World Changing Blog: Our own Alex Steffen is a keynote speaker at ETech 2008

December 04 2007

This is a nice plug for ETech (past and present): The social web of today pretty much had its gestation at Etech gatherings in the early 2000s. read more

Yahoo Developer Network: Open Source Projects Welcome at MySQL 2008 Conference

December 04 2007

Always good to spread the word about opportunities to reach potential clients at MySQL: We are arranging a "DotOrg-Pavilion" where we would like to give Open Source Projects related to or based on the MySQL Server or other MySQL Products an opportunity to showcase their work. read more

High Earth Orbit Blog: Where2.0 2008 Proposals due in 1 week

November 27 2007

Just a reminder for all those proposals for Where 2.0, the time is now! Last reminder, proposals for the O’Reilly Where2.0 conference are due December 3. So make sure and get your submissions in! read more

Web 2.0 Video of Tim O'Reilly

November 27 2007

This video is actually from the Web 2.0 Berlin event, but offers a great definition of what the phrase Web 2.0 means: Tim O'Reilly on Web 2.0 read more

Ubuntu Everywhere? Blog:

November 27 2007

Interesting comments on Ubuntu's adoption... Earlier this summer, I was at O'Reilly's Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, and the Ubuntu tribe were almost all using the GUI interface. read more

Config Management Blog: O'Reilly Announces Velocity Conference

November 27 2007

A nice mention in the Config-mgmt mailing list blog regarding Velocity: Looks like it's pretty web-site focused, but it should be interesting for others, too. read more

Tom Foremski Blog: Challenges ahead for Facebook developers

November 27 2007

Tom discusses a recent presentation at the Graphing Social Patterns conference: He also says that Facebook will not be the dominant social network, he predicts different social sites for people's different interests. He was speaking at the recent "Graphing Social Patterns"conference organised by Dave McClure. read more

Web at ABB: Geeky Stuff

November 27 2007

Nice Velocity mention.... Still want to know more? If so, you should enlist for O'Reilly media's planned Velocity conference in San Fransisco June 23-24 next year, which they claim is a first of its kind. In addition to Cal Henderson, Amazon.com and other global web sites will be presenting. read more

World of Usability: Finally a Useful GPS Device for your Car!

November 27 2007

News from Dash Express, a follow up from products seen at last year's Where 2.0 Conference: Last year at the Where 2.0 conference, I first saw the Dash Express, a location-aware device that connects to the Internet to get information in real-time from your car. I just got e-mail from Dash… read more

ZD Net: The season of social network platforms

November 27 2007

This is an interesting article that references the Graphing Social Patterns: The Graphing Social Patterns conference earlier this month explored multiple aspects of the FB and social networking phenomenon. Coming up this week is SNAP (Social Network Application Platform), a one-day conference focusing on the Facebook platform and beyond. read more

Web 2.0 Video of Tim O'Reilly

November 27 2007

This video is actually from the Web 2.0 Berlin event, but offers a great definition of what the phrase Web 2.0 means: Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0 read more

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