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Apr 14

New meshU speakers and sessions: John Lax and Kevin Hale

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The details of speakers and sessions for meshU continue to develop, and some great stuff has gone up on the site over the past few days. We’re very pleased to announce that John Lax of Teehan+Lax and Kevin Hale of Infinity Box (the mad geniuses behind Wufoo) are now locked and loaded – details on the site, and we’ll be saying more about these sessions soon.

I’m excited about everything we have coming up, but meshU is really starting to take shape and it’ll be a blast. Nice words from John about the lineup: “I am planning on doing something really special for the presentation because, to be honest, I am totally intimidated by the other speakers.” Join us! Tickets are on sale here.

Apr 14

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mesh08 keynote: Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon

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A quick update to let everyone know that Garrett Camp, one of the founders of StumbleUpon, is coming to mesh 2008 as our keynote speaker for the business stream (you can see the other keynotes here, as well as some of the other great speakers and panelists we have lined up). We’re pretty excited to be able to bring one of Canada’s leading Web entrepreneurs to Toronto for one of mesh’s “keynote conversations.”

Garrett co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001 with several university friends while he was finishing his degree in software engineering at the University of Calgary. He and a couple of the other members of the StumbleUpon team later moved to San Francisco after getting venture financing, and last year the company was acquired by eBay for $75-million. Garrett is still responsible for StumbleUpon’s product design and strategy, and the service has more than 3.5M members.

mesh on!

Apr 11

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Let’s mesh @ The Irish Embassy

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After a lot of work behind the scenes, the preparations for mesh ’08 and our new event, meshU, are nearly complete. We’ve got some great keynotes – Matt Mason, Club Penguin’s Lane Merrifield and Warner Brother’s Ethan Kaplan – and some terrific panels featuring people such as blip.TV’s Dina Kaplan, Digg’s Daniel Burka, RedFlagDeals’ Derek Szeto and and Techdirt’s Michael Masnick.

Needless to say, we’re excited! So, let’s get together for some pre-mesh conversation, food and a few adult beverages on April 21 at The Irish Embassy. (Update: why not drop by the Facebook page and let us know whether you’re coming)

Here are the details:

When: Monday, April 21

Where: The Irish Embassy Pub & Grill, 49 Yonge Street (Click here for the Google Map.)

Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Tickets are going fast for mesh and meshU. You can purchase your mesh tickets here, and your meshU tickets here.

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