Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs

I'm in Seattle for the ICWSM. The first day just finished and I'm going to blog about the more interesting talks tomorrow when I'm more awake. In the meantime:

• Crowdvine for conferences is actually pretty useful
  
• Lions for Lambs is terrible
  
• St Trinians is actually quite good
  
• The Century of the Self is brilliant
  
• Seattle looks really nice from the air
  
• Note to self: US Milky Way bars = UK Mars bars, tricksy bastards
  
• Steak + beer + bay views = awesome (thanks Deepak!)
  
• More Starbuckses than normal
  
• Everybody is disconcertingly friendly. People keep offering to take me skiing. And to see waterfalls. People here big on waterfalls
  
• MS Live Labs are hiring
  
• Brad Fitzpatrick is a great speaker but I found his talk disappointing - too much hand waving about OpenID / OAuth / XMPP / XRDS. Dude, it's a room full of social network developers, you're preaching to the converted
  
• Sadly Bernardo Huberman has cancelled. Marc "most unGoogleable name ever" Smith is talking instead. Marc is either founder of Poetry Slam (cool) a Happy Hardcore DJ (not cool) or a senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research (as yet undecided)