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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.

The web conference circuit is increasingly crowded and covers a wide range of topics. Unless you're Robert Scoble, you probably don't get to attend all of the events that you'd like. Even with the events you do attend, you likely won't see all of the sessions you'd planned to (cough, SXSW!). Fortunately, there are a number of web services and sites which give you access to much of the content of a conference, whether you attend or not.

I went to SXSW in Austin this month, but once again I struggled to attend as many panels and sessions as I'd wanted to. So I decided to use the Web to find out what I missed, content wise, at SXSW. Here's what I found.

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The mobile ecosystem is in the midst of an unprecedented wave of transformation. As business models adapt, new verticals and players emerge. Technology evolves, perceptions shift, and lives are improved.

The Mobile World Congress, which will take place from Feb. 14-17 in Barcelona, is doubtless the most important of its kind, and every year, for a couple of days, the city of Barcelona pauses its romantic and alternative style and becomes the centre of the mobile technology world. In this atmosphere, a parallel event like the Mobile Premier Awards means a great opportunity for developers to show their apps.

With an estimated 50,000 mobile professionals from over 200 countries attending the MWC, the congress aims to promote mobile technologies. Now in its fifth year, the MWC will focus on the early stage aspects of mobile development and showcase the most innovative apps from around the world bringing the developers and entrepreneurs to the spotlight.

Being a critique, in verse, of the tradition of keynote speeches at technological conferences.

With apologies most sincere to John Donne, CEO, Fixed Form Enterprises

The canned and careful words they speak,
Or parrot off the teleprompter,
Do not waft so much as reek
With all the freshness of a dumpster.

They bear the same relation to
Ideas as an eight-bit version
Of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
Does to a violent execution.

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We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.