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Offices of Fenwick & West, LLP in Mountain View, CA was the venue for a Web 2007 discussion with panelists Jason Hoffman, Anil Dash, Evelyn Rodriguez, Chad Dickerson on January 9, 2007.

Hoffman moderated.  He is CTO of Joyent/TextDrive, a platform software and utility computing company.  Dash has been a blogger for the past 8 years, and was the first employee of Six Apart, Ltd.  Currently, Dash is chief evangelist and Vice President at Six Apart, Ltd., a blogging and web technology company.  Rodriguez was a social media consultant and writer when she became a citizen journalist while vacationing in Thailand during the water rise from Andaman Sea.  Dickerson is Senior Director at Yahoo! where he runs the Yahoo! Developer Network that provides third party APIs such as maps.

The speakers spoke about different web applications such as Twitter, MyBlogLog, Yelp.com, Flickr.  MyBlogLog, just acquired by Yahoo! is a social networking site.  When a user visits a blogger with a MyBlogLog code, the user’s profile with his/her images will show up on the blogger’s blog when he/she makes a comment.  The mechanism allows people to show other people that they are a fan or reader of a site.  This results in people finding each other, such as fans of a particular band keeping updated on what is going on in another person’s life.