Widgety Goodness Conference

YOU know you've hit the bigtime when you have a conference.

The first ever widget conference will be held December 6 in Brighton, England (about an hour by car from Central London and one of the hippest seaside towns in England).

I see a very WidgGeek vacation...

The Widgety Goodness conference is hosted by original WidgGeek Ivan Pope, who is about as controversial a figure as there can be in the world of widgets (his most recent pronouncement: the widget is the harbinger of the death of the domain name and the standard internet model as we know it).

Topics will include everything from development platforms for those that design their own to the marketing and financial future of widgets (in a keynote by Colm O'Connor of Joost).

The speakers' list goes to show that widgets are becoming a serious business and industry--these folks aren't just a bunch of programming geeks and bloggers.

In a true new media move, there will be no press passes released, only blog passes. Feel free to hit up pay pal and sponsor your favorite widgetblogger to go...

No word yet on whether American companies and developers plan to catch up with a conference of their own...thoroughly not surprising.