140 | The Twitter Conference

We’re very happy to announce that the folks at Hitachi’s G-Technology division will be joining us at the Sundance Tweet House, hosting a cocktail party and session on Sunday, January 24th.

G-technology is a line of industrial-grade external hard drives used by professional photogoraphers, audio editors, and video editors when they want to build their films on a reliable medium.

They’re fast, they don’t break, and they’re going to be buying you drinks at the Sundance Tweet House on Sunday.

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We’re extremely happy to learn that our friends at Twitter have created their own official Twitter Developer Conference called Chirp.

If you’re tapped in to the Twitter API, or thinking about joining the ranks of Twitter developers, we highly recommend checking out the official site and dropping your e-mail into their list to be notified when they launch their first event.

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All are invited to join the Twitter Conference gang and Twitter Co-creator (and 140tc speaker) Dom Sagolla in Seattle at 8:15pm on Dec 2nd. We’ll be at Odd Fellows Cafe, located at pine & 10th on Capitol hill.

Dom’s new book, 140 Characters, A Style Guide for the Short Form is out, and we’re celebrating!

Broback will be bringing a couple special bottles of Woodinville Wine. Please join us.

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One of the many distinctions we make between our Twitter Conferences and the plethora of “Real Time Web” events (which seem to be sprouting like mushrooms…) is that we try to focus on presenting pragmatic information that can be leveraged today. Hand-waving about the brilliant future ahead of us is a wonderful exercise (and maybe worth a session or two,) but our firm belief is that people prefer to learn actionable things that work NOW.

Because of our work in the Twitter data extraction and interpretation game, I’ve played a lot with the Google/Twitter combination, and got a chance to show off a simple tip at the L.A. conference that got a great audience reaction.

At the root of it is that the content in search.twitter.com is ephemeral (the contents tend to go back only a week or two...) while Google archives most tweets on a permanent basis. What I’ve discovered is that combining this permanence with Google’s ability to search within a site can yield many benefits.

Have you found someone on Twitter you want to DM, but they aren’t following you? In some cases you may be able to discover their email address in a matter of seconds. Let’s say for example you wanted to contact me. First step: Find me on Twitter and copy the core URL (twitter.com/sbroback). Then go to Google’s Advanced Search. In the advanced search dialog, enter the phrase “email me” as the specific term you are searching for, and specify to look only within the domain twitter.com/sbroback.

Since I (like 10%-20% of all Twitterers) have at some point in the past asked a follower to email me, my email address was entered into my Twitter stream, and Google has not forgotten that.

While this trick only works some of the time, you’d be surprised at whose email addresses are readily available.

This gambit often also frequently works for the string “call me.”

Note that for our clients in the brand management and hedge fund arenas we’ve created several tools that automate searching, extraction, and interpretation of Twitter data. If you’d like us to help you too, call me at 425-503-2093 for more info.

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Here by popular demand, today’s archived stream of The Comedy Panel at 140 | The Twitter Conference:

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Just when you thought the conference lineup couldn’t get any better, it has!

We are excited to announce that the hot LA band Hypnogaja (@hypnogaja) will be performing at our reception Tuesday, Sept. 22. The party is open to conference attendees only, so there’s one more reason to register.

Special thanks to Music Sponsors Sonos for making it happen.

Described by Outburn magazine as “enthralling, first-rate modern rock,” by Apple.com as “soulful rock with a subtle electronic backdrop” and by the Denver Post as music that “pushes boundaries,” Hypnogaja writes and performs “melodic, sophisticated songs that cater to no trend”, according to GRAMMY¨-nominated songwriter Wendy Waldman (Garth Brooks, Vanessa Williams), producer of the band’s critically acclaimed album, Acoustic Sunset Ð Live at the Longhouse.

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This morning I got together with the judges for our upcoming developer launchpad session at 140tc in Los Angeles to talk about what we’re looking for in the applications that demo.

Check out the show:

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With so many great Twitter apps currently available, and scores of new ones launching daily, we’ve decided to dedicate space at The Twitter Conference to showcase some of the cool stuff being developed.

If you’re going to be attending the conference, then you’ve got a room of cool developers showing off new applications to look forward to. If you’re promoting a launch or looking to generate buzz for an existing Twitter application, you should consider joining the Developer Showcase.

Situated adjacent to the main session rooms, each developer will be given demo space that includes a table, power, a hard-wired and dedicated internet connection, and signage. Developers will also get a full pass to the conference and party and be listed on the conference website.

Kim Larsen is our resident Expert On All Things Sponsorship, so if the showcase sounds like the right place for you, you should drop her an e-mail: kim AT parnassusgroup.com.

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Remember that I told you we’d be releasing our Mountain View session videos once a week here on the blog and on the videos page?

Well, I told you that a whole week ago, which means that it’s time to pull out another session. This is a panel featuring iJustine, Dave Peck, and Tara Hunt, called “I Am a Twitter God(dess), and So Can You” (thank you, Stephen Colbert). Enjoy:

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