Cristiano and myself wanted to add avatar support to Four Starters so that people could put a face to the writer of a post or comment. There already exist some solutions for this, but something more open might be nice.

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I was thinking of going to XTech this year but I haven’t really made up my mind yet.

XTech is traditionally a very XML and W3C heavy conference with some different influences each year. If you ignore all the academical stuff about XML you can pretty much say it is a technical conference about the internet.

I attended last year and that was pretty interesting and conveniently located in Amsterdam and was adjoined by a Barcamp. This year’s edition is in Paris.

Looking over the schedule, I can’t help but notice that a lot of the talks are very introductory in nature (like last year) and that this year’s program at times is very similar to last year’s program. I see a lot of the same names and in some cases also the exact same topics. A casual observer might think that the web hasn’t changed that much in one year.

As a new player Joost seems to be well represented and positively Jyri Engeström, Jeremy Keith and Schulze & Webb will be presenting there.

Any thoughts?

Some pictures from last year: