Peter Vatistas

Just got back from Blogworld 2007 in Las Vegas and I am beat. First impression of Blogworld was good, as time went on it wasn’t so good. The keynote went okay for a few minutes and then when down the drain with almost everything else at Blogworld. The award show was held at the Hard Rock Casino and I though the food was great and the music was cool too. The big problem with the award show was no one cared and the guy on stage giving out the awards was almost completely drained out by the noise, I couldn’t hear a word he said and I was sitting 15 feet away!!

Some sessions were good, one was great but in almost all of them people were talking about how great they are and how everyone should advertise on their sites… Lame. I am at Blogworld to learn and to network, I acheived one of those (I met a lot of cool people). I walked out of 2 sessions and just banged my head against the wall, I learned more that way when I met a few smart guys with some great products doing the same.

Walking the floor with all the vendor booths was cool too, I made a few vital connections for my companies socal network that is in development and found a few neat solutions that I am going to dig deeper and learn more about. I got a massage, won an iPod shuffle, an iPod Nano, and made $20 in chips (by wearing Hackersafe’s tag beneath my nametag).

All in all I plan to attend next year’s Blogworld convention with hope that they will learn from the many mistakes they made from this years event. I loved being in Vegas too!!