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Crtical Mass Live Blogging, Streaming & Chat

Today I spent some time on the AlwaysInBeta Critical Mass site covering the Forrester Consumer Forum 2007 conference. 

Its an interesting interaction experience.  You get live uStream video from their booth at the convention and you can see and hear whatever is being broadcasted.  You can also chat along side other folks watching the stream. 

I think half of the people on the chat were from CM, but still its a good little site to go to and watch this ongoing experience unfolding at the conference.  I engaged in many hilarious conversations as JO on the site.  I was able to interact with booth-zen's (booth citizens), and even get them to do things for me.. waving, pointing the camera around and answer questions.

From a strictly voyouristic point of view its also kind of neat to see how people at the booth do their sales pitches to people when they stopped by the booth.  As a bonus treat for folks, they gave away swedish fish and I think free copies of a book they wrote called the Age of Conversation which is available on LuLu.com. 

Page wise looking at the source, it was pretty simple to setup and seems like an obvious bet for anyone down the line to make a site like this and promote your presence at a convention. 

Now, how I got there, and why, that's due to the Logic + Emotion blog I read via my bloglines roll.  I checked it the other day and consumed what seemed to be line 50 different blogs of information.  I came across the CM always in beta video reel and site post and thought it would be interesting to check out.  Glad I did, it was alot of fun.

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Hey Dan ... thanks for mentioning the Age of Conversation. There are a few CM folks amongst the 100+ contributors.