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Planning to attend CES - the world's largest consumer electronics show? If so, you are cordially invited to join us at an exclusive private party SAY Media is throwing at the brand new venue, 1Oak at The Mirage.

ReadWriteWeb presents exclusive embedded video of the Dreamforce 2011 conference in San Francisco, with running commentary by Scott Fulton. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff leads the festivities, and he's beginning by driving home the message that PCs have held users back the way Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Khadafi held back Egypt and Libya, respectively.

A new Salesforce database feature Benioff is announcing today enables data centers to store selected data locally without using it to populate the Salesforce database.

NodeConf, a Node.js conference scheduled for May 4 in Portland, OR, has announced its schedule. Speakers include Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, JavaScript guru Tim Caswell and our own resident hacker Tyler Gillies.

The event will ticket place at PureSpace, and tickets cost $145. The first batch of tickets sold out, but you can still add yourself to the waiting list for the next round.

You learned long ago not to leave your computer unprotected against the elements of the Internet. You would never think of accessing the Internet without anti-virus software (hush, you Mac folks), so why would you leave one of your most important online presences - your Facebook Page - unprotected?

Today at DEMO, WebSense launched Defensio 2.0 for Facebook, a Facebook app that can help keep your company's Facebook Page safe and clear from malicious links, spam and profanity.

Over the next two days at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, California, more than 50 companies will take the stage and introduce their product in six minutes flat. It's a format that has become an industry standard, with conferences like TechCrunch 50, TechCrunch Disrupt and LAUNCH following in its footsteps.

A continual criticism of DEMO over the years, however, has been that the price of entry is simply too high. At nearly $20,000, the cost of getting on stage at one of the world's pre-eminent tech conferences can be prohibitive to say the least, so we decided to take a look at how funding broke down for the $1,000,000 in presentations we're seeing over the 48-hours.

Dreamforce is the annual Salesforce.com event taking place next week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It's one of those giant events with more tracks than you could ever attend. There will be more vendors than you could ever learn about in two days. You need bearings for this one.

There will be lots of news but the undercurrent is often where the most valuable information flows. Here are some thoughts we'd like to share to help you get the most out of Dreamforce or any other event that you attend.

Edith Yeung has a knack for bringing smart people together.

For evidence of that, one needed to look no further than the fourth floor auditorium of the Metreon in San Francisco last weekend. It was there that Yeung and her team hosted a series of speakers, panels and product demos for a floor full of attendees, each of whom found the line-up tempting enough to coax them out of bed early on a Saturday.

The Times Center in New York City was packed on Friday with some of the brightest minds in both business and technology for the first-ever east coast edition of BizTechDay, a one-day conference for entrepreneurs now in its third year.

The event, which was keynoted by Seth Godin, featured an impressive list of speakers peppered with brief demos of Web-based products aimed at startups and small businesses.

The big stories at Verizon Developer Community Conference 2010 (VDCC) are APIs and VCAST Apps for Day 1. Opening keynote talks and panels explored a range of topics that are on the minds of all mobile app developers.

Let's take a closer look.

Day 2 of the Verizon Developer Community Conference 2010 offered a deep dive into ares such as open source hardware, network APIs and more. RWH sat down with developers attending and gathered feedback that other mobile app developers will appreciate and hopefully apply in their own endeavors.

Let's take a closer look.