BlogWorldExpo Photos Live (#BWE09)

Photos from BlogWorldExpo are live. (within the blog and on flickr).

Memories From This Year's DEMOfall

Below are a smattering of fabulous shots from this year's DEMOfall in San Diego.

Microsoft's John Nogrady and Don Dodge

Mark Pincus

Steve Wildstrom, Janet Rae-dupree, Renee Blodgett, Don Clark, Barry Rosenbaum & band member

(Taken by Demo photographer)

Local Dirt's Founder and CEO Heather Hilleren

Pat McGovern, Renee Blodgett

Neal Silverman, Pat McGovern

Answers.com's Shaya Loney

Laura Beck, Chris Shipley, Jon Pepper, Renee Blodgett, Janet Rae-dupree

(Taken by Demo photographer)

Harry McCracken

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Matt Marshall

Pat McGovern

Jan, Pat, Renee

Renee and Jon

DEMO Stage Crew

McGovern

Barak Berkowitz

Awards Ceremony

Answers.com - Shaya Loney, Bob Rosenschein, Renee Blodgett

USA Today's Ed Baig

Jam Session

Steve Larsen

Neal Silverman

Chris and Janet

Below are shots taken by Demo's photographer on-the-ground. Check out the full Demo flickr stream. My uploads from the event and on flickr - tagged DEMOfall09.

Chris and the Band

Laura Beck, Renee Blodgett, Ed Baig, Robin Raskin, Ann Revell-Pechar and Laurie Ann

Renee Blodgett, Neal Silverman

Pat McGovern and Chris Shipley dance

Group shot at the end of the Jam Session

The Demo Crew (by Rob Lee)

Mug Shots from TechCrunch50

TechCrunch50 was in force this week at the San Francisco Design Center. Client Answers.com was a sponsor and client Gilbert Guide was in the DemoPit unveiling their new media property: The Daily Wrinkle, aimed at aging American boomers and seniors.

Below are a smattering of shots I took on the show floor. As for video, I was too busy running from one end to the other of this massive complex to shoot. Additional photos have been uploaded here.

VCs and visionaries on the TC50 stage

Kevin Rose

Yossi Vardi

Tim O'Reilly

Paul Carr

John Hirschlorn

Robert Scoble deep in thought

Ron Conway

Zach Solan

Answers.com's Gil Reich

TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid and Mike Arrington

Loren Feldman

Don Dodge

Peter Sauer, a gem from the TechCrunch crew

Robert Scoble, Steve Gillmor and Gil Reich at the VIP reception

George Zachary

Jack Arrington

Loic and Geraldine Le Meur and Robert Scoble

Zappos' Tony Hsieh

Dan Fost

Phil Jeudy

Jason Kincaid at The Daily Wrinkle booth

Kooaba's Herbert Bay

Renee Blodgett, Lara Belonogoff and Jill Gilbert

Moshi Monsters' Michael Smith and Ido Mazursky of Shidonni

Marc Andreesen

Audience shot

Jill Gilbert

Nir Zamir with Virtual Web

Keith Teare

Mike McGrath

Christine Lu and Chris Noble

Mark Johnson

Voyij.com and VFM Leonardo Team Up

Client Voyij.com, a travel metasearch site dedicated to sales and deals, adds digital-rich photos, virtual tours and videos from VFM Leonardo.

VFM Leonardo, the leader in online visual content distribution for hotels, will provide hotel digital-rich visual content to the Voyij.com site, including photos, virtual tours and videos. The result? Voyij users will now have an even richer experience when they are searching for hotel deals.

For VFM Leonardo’s customers who have access to VNetwork - the largest online visual content distribution network for the global travel industry, through VScape or VBrochure, this means that they will now be able to further enhance their online presence with photos and rich media (virtual tours, videos) on Voyij.com in the industry’s leading multimedia viewer.

BlogHer09 Mug Shots

Photos from this year's BlogHer. Full set can be found here.

Techlicious Blog Unveiled: Tech-Savvy Friend for Women

The Techlicious blog was launched today, whose mission is to simplify technology, particularly for women.

They tout themselves as the tech-savvy friend women can count on for tips and tricks to get the most out of technology; whether that’s saving time in their hectic schedules, discovering new ways to enjoy their personal interests, or keeping up with the latest technology trends and styles.

As founder Suzanne Kantra points out on the site, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, women influence the purchase of more than 90% of consumer electronics, yet there is nowhere women can go to get straightforward advice tailored to them that is not overly geeky, snarky, or dumbed-down.

Techlicious simplifies things by cutting through the hype and technical jargon to give you the information you need, in language that's easy to understand.

The content will include how-to videos, new product and website recommendations, as well as useful tips for getting the most out of the products they already own.

Their Buyer’s Guides provide advice on choosing the right product for every lifestyle, and include recommendations at various price points. Techlicious also offers a community forum where women can get answers to their questions and share their own tips and discoveries.

The Israeli Faces of Innovation

A collection of social and panel shots from the first Israel Conference in the states, held all day Thursday in Los Angeles at the Luxe Hotel.

Session topics included high technology, clean tech, medical solutions and entertainment media technology. I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of the crowd and the fact that they sold out in their first year, just surpassing 500 registered attendees.

From retail, sustainability, biotech and new media to venture capital, film producers, attorneys and serial entrepeneurs, they all showed up to participate in the discussion on and off the stage.

Sharona Justman is the force behind this new event, designed to be an interactive forum to bring Israel-facing companies together to increase business and investment opportunities between Israel and California. Below is Sharona with Israeli visionary Yossi Vardi following his keynote.

Lou Lenart

Ron Hadar of Tigo Energy

Shahar Azani

Answers.com Bob Rosenschein

MySpace's Allen Hurff, Renee Blodgett, Yossi Vardi

Isabel Maxwell

Yossi brings us his wit

Guy Hoffman

Isabel Maxwell and Isaac Applbaum on the Green Technology panel

Additional photos can be found here.

Iraq is Gone

Two interesting shorts on Iraq.

From Baghdad to San Jose. Haitham Jasim and his wife, Jamila Ghanm, arrived in San Jose from Iraq in July. This is their story.

The second one is called Iraq is gone.

Bay Communion

Jack Gescheidt's Tree Spirit Project series of photos always amaze me. An example or for the whole series, click here where you can also order various sizes of prints. This is called Bay Communion.

Moving Panoramic Shot of American Bloggers in Africa

We had an opportunity to hang out with the founder of Virtual Africa for a few days in Cape Town. After an amazing 360 panoramic view of Table Mountain and the surrounding Cape by helicopter, he took a shot of the American visiting bloggers, which also includes three South African bloggers in this amazing shot. We'll cover them in depth in a later post.

360^o picture of the participatingUS and South African bloggers, courtesy of Virtual Africa. Full screen version.