Marketing Nirvana

Speaking of the social networking phenomena and the various voices that are echoing these thoughts, it’s interesting that the next couple of days will see the first Graphing Social Patterns’ conference in San Jose, hosted by my good friend Dave McClure. This is obviously a must-attend for those interested in gleaning as much information on the future of social networking.

Picture Source: Laughing Squid (via Flickr)

The event boasts of a list of individuals who continue to evolve and impact the social networking paradigm in ways we never could have imagined a few years ago. I’ll be there in the morning, listening to Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn talk about the business aspect of social networking. I’ll update the blog live if there’s wireless connectivity (which I’m almost sure, there’ll be plenty of) and a wrap-up on our corporate blog for tomorrow as well. So stay tuned for those posts as well.

In the words of Dave, here’s why you should have registered for the event:

Wild, raucous parties on Sunday *and* Monday night are open to all attendees, especially those wearing silly hats. Lots of food, drink, fun, dancing girls, elephants, clowns with funny cars — in fact, i think i heard Cirque du Soleil is flying in just for this event! Mike Arrington himself says he is going do a trapeze act with a crocodile! I swear no lie it will be mostest bestest funnest geekiest conf EVER!

If you’re a developer, product manager, product marketer, business exec, startup founder, VC, angel, or just plain interested in social networks & Facebook — please join us and BUY A TICKET! ahem. click that big-ass blue button right below… NOW i say! Click it! Click Click Click!

Seriously: this is going to be a terrific event. Conference speakers currently include Tim O’Reilly, Dave Morin, Danny Sullivan, Charlene Li, Mike Arrington, Seth Goldstein, Robert Scoble, Susan Wu, Adam Rifkin, Scott Rafer, RockYou, Slide.com, and more folks to be announced soon.

[Please note: Online registration are currently closed but you can still register onsite at the event location]

Quick update from Dave:

fyi, the online registration is closed, so that ‘big-ass blue button’ won’t work anymore, but you can still register onsite

also, geeks on a budget can come to the $99 Hackathon / OpenFaced / AppNite Contest, and hob-nob in the lobby.if you’re a FB app developer, this is the place to be.

AppNite Demo contest prizes include 3 x $1000 awards, + free traffic & ads from rockyou & joyent

come join us!

Still interested. Here’s Dave’s brilliant TechCrunch piece on graphing social patterns.