Confabb -- a Hub for Conference Info

Still catching up with my reading for the week, but thanks to David Parmet for posting this great note about Confabb, a hub for info on conferences and events. I agree with David's view of the "conference problem":

We all go to a lot of conferences and try to keep abreast of everything planned for the shows, either before we go or while we are there. And deciding on what conference to attend is made more complicated by the fact that there is no central hub on the Web where one can search for, track and plan for conference or trade shows.

Moreover, when you’ve come home from a conference, all that great content and commentary is usually lost.

For these reasons we’ve built Confabb. Confabb is a tool for conference attendees, organizers and speakers. Confabb lets you search for conferences, track updates to conference agendas, see who is attending and speaking and offer feedback after it’s all done. You can also see what bloggers are saying and see pictures taken during the show through Flickr’s API.

I've been thinking about the conference problem for some time now -- it's one of the things that led me to assist client Socialtext in evangelizing wiki event spaces -- and I look forward to giving Confabb a spin.

We keep looking for markets that can be made more efficient with a community aggregation layer. The world of conferences is probably one of them. Congrats to the folks at Confabb.