Singularity, the global web conference: October 24-26, 2008

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Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.

On October 24-26, join 100 of the world’s top web visionaries, developers, designers, thought leaders, and celebrities for three days of talks at this seminal web event.

Attend from home or from a real-world local conference hub near you. Catch up with old friends (you can find them from your existing social networks) and meet new ones. And you don’t even have to take time off work.

To find out more about the conference, read the About page.

To see how you can help, take a look at the Badges and Sponsors pages.

To get updates, subscribe to the Singularity RSS feed.

Adobe joins Influxis and Lynda.com as platinum sponsor

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on July 1, 2008
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We’re happy to announce that Adobe is sponsoring the Singularity web conference as a platinum sponsor. Adobe joins Influxis and Lynda.com as the third and final platinum sponsor.

We still have regular sponsorship and venue sponsorship positions available. Check the Singularity web conference sponsorship page for more information.

New tickets sales date

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Tickets for the Singularity web conference will be going on sale on Monday, July 7th.

We’ve decided to push tickets sales a little to give ourselves some time to test the new site more thoroughly.

New Singularity site teaser on Google App Engine

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on June 20, 2008
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Singularity web conference new web site teaser

Take a sneak peek at the new Singularity web site on Google App Engine. You can sign up for the site, which will go live in July, and register your interest in the conference and help me test out the deployment environment. (And yes, Singularity is inverting its colors for the second half of the year.)

Read more about the new site.

Singularity announces sponsors

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on June 19, 2008
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It gives me great pleasure to announce our first confirmed sponsors for the Singularity web conference. It’s an impressive list that includes Influxis, lynda.com, Yahoo!, BBC, Triptyk, and AMEE.

Read the full post.

Call for sponsors

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on April 7, 2008
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We’ve just issued the call for sponsors for the Singularity web conference.

There are three Platinum Sponsor slots (two one remaining), and five regular Sponsor slots.

As with everything else, we’re doing sponsorships a little differently at Singularity, starting with limiting our sponsorship positions so that all our sponsors get lots of exposure and also by limiting the various sponsorship tiers so that the sponsorship program doesn’t read like a study of precious metals and gems (we do have Platinum sponsors but not an unwieldy hierarchy of Diamond, Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc.)

Also, individuals and small companies who want to sponsor Singularity can do so by becoming a micro-sponsor. Opportunities to micro-sponsor Singularity will open alongside ticket sales this month.

For-profit companies that want to organize local conference hubs can apply to become Venue Sponsors (non-profit organizations and community/user groups can local community conference hubs at no cost. We will be releasing more details on this this month.)

Finally, if you are a media institution and you want to support Singularity by giving us exposure, we’ll reciprocate by making you a Media Sponsor, having your badge on the site, and giving you two free tickets to attend the conference.

Download the Singularity Web Conference Call for Sponsors document (PDF; 119KB), or read the online version.

For sponsorship inquiries, call Aral Balkan at +44 779 5551278 or email aral {at} aralbalkan(.)com.

Singularity on Upcoming

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on March 31, 2008
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I just set up an event on Upcoming for Singularity. You can express your interest in the conference by watching it or marking yourself as attending.

I also created a Singularity group on Upcoming that we will be using to list local venues, meetups, and events. If you are part of a user group or community group and want to host a local event (or if you’re at a company that might be a potential venue sponsor), get in touch with me at aral {at} aralbalkan(.)com.

Registrations are planned to open at the start of May (subscribe to the Singularity RSS feed to get updates!)

Singularity interview by télévision suisse.

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on February 11, 2008
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Last week in Geneva, while attending the wonderfully inspiring LIFT conference, I was interviewed about Singularity by Zian Marro from télévision suisse for their online news service, Nouvo.

Nouvo has a special section dedicated to videos from LIFT, where you can watch speaker’s sessions as well as other interviews.