Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters".

Owen Thomas is a freelance anchor on CNN International, based in London. An established and experienced journalist, he worked for many years at ITN, presenting the ill-fated ITV News Channel, the networked ITV Morning News "ITV Morning News"and the regional ITV programme, London Tonight. "ITV London News" He spent a year presenting the news on the BBC World Service, and anchored the "World Briefing" programme on that station.

Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine, United States) is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. He is currently Wired's managing editor for blogs. Boutin has also written regularly for "Slate" and "Valleywag". He is a contributing editor to "Wired" magazine, and most recently a book reviewer for the "Wall Street Journal". In the past his work has appeared in the "New York Times", …

Scott Swanson (born 1977), is an American blogger, and employee of ViTrue, Inc., residing in San Francisco, CA. Swanson is best known for media appearances where he speaks on internet advertising, and user-generated marketing programs. Since 2002, Swanson has appeared as a speaker at conferences including AD:TECH, the Montgomery Technology Conference, OMMA: Hollywood, The Digital Media Summit, and Digital Hollywood.

i like to write at www.valleywag.com i am probably the best writer in the world. i like gossip stories.

Dave McClure has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years as a software developer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, blogger, & internet marketing nerd. He is an advisor or investor for Mint, Mashery, Simply Hired, TeachStreet, Oortle, CrazyEgg, SlideShare, Eventvue, RichRelevance, HealthUnity, & Canopy Financial. Dave is the conference chair for Graphing Social Patterns, and a co-chair for Web 2.0 Expo.

I love focusing on the college market and young people. I like thinking of new business ideas and having them shot down and shot up and giving them a shot. I am very passionate about technology and the benefits it creates for everyday life. I am looking to meet others who are accomplished for insight and other young people who have similar ambitions. Aka to make the world a better place, how cheesy but true.

Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs.

you probably won't recognize me without my camera in front of my face. if you want to know more about me, please visit my pages at: www.flickr.com/photos/fetching.

systems thinker, giving friend, hapa.

Jay Bhatti trabajó en Microsoft en la gestión de productos. Jay obtuvo su MBA de la Wharton School, y realizó sus estudios en Ingeniería de Sistemas de la Universidad de Rutgers.

Steve is the Co-founder and CEO of OrganizedWisdom Health. Steve, a serial entrepreneur, was the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of the first Internet promotion and technology company, Promotions.com, which was founded in 1996, went public on Nasdaq in 1999 and was acquired by iVillage in 2002. Steve worked briefly at iVillage as a senior executive before founding Transformation Ventures, where he created and coached entrepreneurs on The 10 Laws of Creating Equity Value.

What up! I'm an engineer at a startup Internet company in San Francisco. I work long hours during the week but have my fun on the weekends. I just moved into my awesome studio in the Marina district of the City and LOVE IT! Come visit me and check out the pad and the nightlife with me sometime! I mostly only use myspace to keep in touch with friends, but I love meeting new people. Drop me a line if you wanna chat...