Finally, the rather intriguing social graph aggregation project that Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon have been working was announced publicly on Six Apart's blog today by David.

Go ahead and read the long post; also compare the more technical paper they wrote earlier.

Let me first say that I have no idea what Six Apart's business plan is around this project; hopefully, their new management is paying more attention to this rather significant project than they were to OpenID (which to many observers, including myself, seemed to have never come in a C-level meeting there.)

But, if they have their stuff together, and they can execute in the business sense, this project could become the single most important reason Six Apart would become a very attractive acquisition candidate six to twelve months down the road.

It will be interesting to watch ... certainly Six Apart is lucky to have David back, who is now the main engine for the project as I understand it, and who, shall we say, has "a few" ;-) talents ...

The room is packed. Many more attendees than expected. And the discussion on the panels is rather good, too. This Health 2.0 conference is the right event at the right time, and the uptake shows it. Obviously, many health technology startups are here, some VCs, but also many of the large health provider and insurer organizations.

Congratulations, tireless organizers Matthew and Indu!!

She writes:

I am producing an (un)conference for women working in technology called She's Geeky in October...Please pass the word along to women working in tech that you think might enjoy attending the event.

She's Geeky

www.shesgeeky.org

A Women's Tech (un)conference

October 22-23 in Mountain View, CA.

This event is designed to bring together women from a range of technology-focused disciplines who self identify as geeky. Our goal is to support skill exchange and learning between women working in diverse fields and to create a space for networking and to talk about issues faced by women in technology.

I posted about the event and gone into some more detail about my motivations and hopes here.

Back in the days when I went to university in Erlangen, Germany, our first-year class of just over 300 electrical engineering students had exactly 8 women (I counted). And they were dropping out at a faster rate than the guys, too. Fortunately, Silicon Valley has a much better ratio, but it's still far from 50:50.