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From May 19th to 20th, mediabistro will hold its Web 3.0 Conference in New York City at the New Yorker Hotel. The conference focuses on the semantic web, mashups, text and data analytics, and how they add real-world value to end users and businesses.

Are you itching to get out of the office and network with your peers? In a new feature on ReadWriteWeb, we'll provide a weekly roundup of upcoming Social Web events. We'll publish this every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.

Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us.

Videos from conferences, seminars, and talks have become a standard way to ensure that even those who can't attend an event are able to at least get access to the presentations after the fact. However, video recordings from conferences are often somewhat sub-par and even the best videographers can have a hard time capturing both the speakers and their slides. Klewel, a Swiss startup, has developed an innovative system to replay videos and slides which we hope other services will soon implement as well.

Stanford University has produced more entrepreneurs of mega-ventures than any other college. And success breeds success. The money people love to connect with anybody coming out of Stanford, and that helps Stanford get the best students, and so it repeats.

ReadWriteWeb will be reporting from the 15th Stanford Accel Symposium on February 25th. Hosted by Accel (the VC firm that funded Facebook, Etsy, and dozens of other companies we write about here) and Media X at Stanford, the event boasts some big name speakers, such as the CEOs of eBay and WPP.