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Time now for the third edition of our events guide. In this new feature on ReadWriteWeb, we provide a weekly roundup of upcoming Social Web events. We'll publish it 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.

Hey, folks. Itching to get out of the office and network with your peers? Check out the roundup below of exciting upcoming events, a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb.

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

Tinker, a new service that aggregates Twitter conversations around topics, came out of private beta today. Unlike services that merely attempt to track Twitter hashtag trends or attempt to describe what context a hashtag brings to a tweet, Tinker lets its users select popular events that are already being tracked, or create their own event stream by choosing a keyword or hashtag and adding a few filters, such as 'no swear words' and selective blocking of individual Twitter or Tinker users.

Ada Lovelace, a 19th century British writer who is considered the world's first computer programmer, will be honored by bloggers all over the world tomorrow. In the spirit of providing young women with role models, more than 1500 bloggers participating in the first annual Ada Lovelace Day have pledged to write about a woman or women they admire working in technology on March 24th. You can read about Lovelace on Wikipedia.

The tech event season is beginning to heat up. If you're a speaker, you know that standing in front of a crowd isn't half as hard as getting critical feedback on your talks. People who disliked it will generally remain silent or opt for a snarky tweet or two. Those close to you will tell you "You did great!" no matter how poorly you performed. Getting the feedback you need to improve can be the most difficult part of the whole process. Until now. Meet SpeakerRate.

Webstock, a conference for Web professionals, is happening in Wellington New Zealand this week. As usual it's a classy lineup of speakers and a number of international webheads will be jetting in for the event. They include science fiction author Bruce Sterling, Flickr's Heather Champ, Social Web designer Joshua Porter, Dopplr's Matt Biddulph, Institute for the Future's Jane McGonigal, Six Apart's David Recordon, The Guardian's Meg Pickard, NZ Foo Camp's Nat Torkington, Yahoo's Tom Coates, online performance artist Ze Frank, and many more.

If there's one thing city search sites have in common it's their predictability. Looking for something to do? You can plow through the various categories: movies, theater, dining, concerts, museums,...yawn. It's always the same. And heck, if you knew what you wanted to do, you won't be bothering with a city search site in the first place, would you? You would just be doing it already. Maybe it's time for a better way to explore your city: by mood.

Thanks to our partners at TechWeb, co-hosts of the Web 2.0 Summit along with O'Reilly Media, ReadWriteWeb is pleased to present ongoing video coverage of the event. You can select sessions in the widget below, as they are released on video to ReadWriteWeb over the next couple of days. We will also be highlighting some of the sessions in separate posts. The first day of Web 2.0 Summit featured an interview with John Doerr of the famous VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (which invested in Amazon, Google and many other success stories).

Calling all entrepreneurs! On Tuesday, October 21 at 11am PT/2pm ET, we're partnering with leading entrepreneur and strategy consultant Sramana Mitra to bring you a Web 3.0 product strategy roundtable online - using Dimdim's open source web conferencing platform. During the 60-minute session, entrepreneurs are invited to pitch Sramana their product ideas in a 3-minute presentation. She will review the material in real-time and provide 3-minutes of feedback on each plan.

The session is open to 500 people but only the first 10 to sign up have the opportunity to pitch Sramana. To register and find specific submission details, please visit here.

The Web 3.0 Conference & Expo is happening October 16-17, Santa Clara, CA. ReadWriteWeb is a media sponsor of the event.

Web 3.0 Conference and Expo will explore the strategies, tools, technologies and the big ideas necessary for building impactful, socially relevant, and profitable Web 3.0 products, services and companies. So whether you are a designer, developer, entrepreneur, strategist, or venture capitalist, if you are thinking about the next generation of the Web, the Web 3.0 Conference is the place to be.