Wednesday, 30 January
Web 2.0 conference, Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara

Again I got a free expo-only pass, and focussed mostly on talking to employers about what they need in a technician level new hire.

1) OpSource is a VERY large service provider located right in Santa Clara. Alas, the hiring manager was not there, but I got his name.

2) Lithium Technologies in Emeryville creates and supports online communities. I imagine they have tech support jobs too.

3) New Idea Engineering is a search engine consultant who was interested in coming to talk to my Ajax class. I spoke with Miles Kehoe. He also pointed me to this online cartoon:
http://xkcd.com/

4) Sun microsystems had a booth where they were demoing jMaki/GlassFish, a multi-tool web development system. Arun Gupta, whom I had met at CodeCamp, agreed to come talk to my class.

In less than an hour, I made a lot of contacts!