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I’m just about ready for to head to the airport and fly down to San Diego to attend the Demo fall 2007 conference, which starts tomorrow (not including the cocktail mixer tonight). I’m pretty excited to be going, as this is my first time to check out this well-established and mature “launchpad for emerging technologies” event in person.

I’m quite intrigued to see the demonstration from Glam Media. According to Matt Marshall recently, their network is the fastest growing on the Internet and has overtaken iVillage in users reaching in excess of 17 million uniques in May. Should be interesting to see what they have up their sleeve for a new product/release.

Some of this year’s products appear poised to be bought out by the Google/Yahoo/Microsofts of the world. A good example is Attendi, Inc., who have created a new twist on social search. It sounds like the perfect sort of thing Yahoo! might be tempted to buy, and try to shoehorn into Y!Mash, which actually could be pretty cool if done properly.

Speaking of interesting social networking apps, I am truly looking forward to the spigit demo as well. From at top-level view, it seems to be far superior to the typical amazon voting or digg thumbs approach.

Anyway, this year seems to be yet another interesting year for the social networks and relative app markets. Lots to see and do. I hope to shed more light on the festivities in the days to come.