Welcome to a Busy Technology September

Today we are having the first day of fall and no matter how sad it may be for some of us to welcome this rainy season, September will sure be a very exciting and busy month for everyone in the technology blogosphere. The main reason is that we are going to have four (!!!) major industry events this month with dozens of new projects launched and - hopefully - lots of interesting ideas and discussions to witness.

The first two (those surrounded with the most buzz) are DEMO and the competing TechCrunch 50. Both events will take place in California with slight difference in places and dates: San Francisco September 8-10 for TechCrunch 50 and San Diego September 7-9 for DEMO. And while it may be wise in terms of business and competition for Michael Arrington to schedule TechCrunch 50 like this, that week will certainly be incredibly busy for anyone blogging about startups. Usually technology bloggers have busy briefing schedules for about a couple of weeks preceding DEMO but this September we are twice as busy as before. And I can only imagine how many posts we will have published simultaneously about the new startups and existing companies with important announcements during both events.

And while it is obviously good to have so many exciting things to cover during one week, my major concern is that attention of our readers will be seriously blurred because I highly doubt anyone will be able to actually concentrate on all the 50 startups (52 already actually) to launch at TechCrunch 50 and 70 companies presenting their projects at DEMO. But that is the reality we will have to live in September anyway so prepare your feed readers to consume as much information as possible - and hopefully we’ll see some very cool ideas this year again.

Also this month we are having the first Web 2.0 Expo in New York on September 16-19. The event is intended “to celebrate the size, power, and innovation of the East Coast web industry” and it clearly is supposed to demonstrate to the Valley that the other coast also has something to say about web 2.0. I am not quite sure how it will work but it will certainly be a very interesting thing to watch at least.

Another important event this month is BlogWorld and New Media Expo to take place on September 20-21 in Las Vegas. This one will hardly offer any startups-related news but we will be sure to hear a lot of interesting opinions on the trends in blogging, podcasting, vlogging and everything related to social media. As a media sponsor of the BlogWorld, Profy will provide as comprehensive coverage of the event as possible (and don’t forget you can have a nice discount on your tickets with Profy).

In general, I believe this month could be a busy one even without all the events - simply because everyone in the industry is back from vacations, new startups are launched and some important business decisions are made. But it will be even more exciting with the 4 major and tons of minor events, of course. So stay tuned, I am sure we will have enough of things to talk about in the 30 days to follow.

And here are some links you might find useful to stay tuned to the news about the big events:

DEMO blog and RSS feed

TechCrunch 50 blog and RSS feed

Web 2.0 Expo Blog and RSS feed

BlogWorld and New Media Expo blog and RSS feed

To track those events on Twitter you can either follow these accounts:

DEMO

Web 2.0 Expo

BlogWorld

or use these Summize searches:

TechCrunch 50

Web 2.0 Expo

BlogWorld

You can also join groups for some of the events on LinkedIn:

DEMO

Web 2.0 Expo New York (this one is heavily under-populated because the event has a social network of its own on CrowdVine)

and on Facebook:

DEMO

Also if you prefer to get your news on FriendFeed, there is one room you might be willing to join for discussions around one of the events (I hope others will also show soon):

Web 2.0 Expo

You can see that event organizers are not very active with social media sites encouraging us to visiting their own sites and blogs for updates. That may be wise but hopefully they will realize we will still find the ways to leverage social media to track social media events. If you see the events organizers come up with new places to find the events online, leave a comment here and I’ll be sure to update the post.