Comments on: Confabb: Find, Track and Review Conferences

By: Eventvue Grabs Angel Round Over The Weekend

Eventvue Grabs Angel Round Over The Weekend — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:34:04 +0000

[...] Confabb is the most direct competitor in the space, but has focused on being a comprehensive directory of the who, what, and where of industry conferences rather than on the palm greasing that goes on at the events. More social competitors include Meetup.com and Eventwax. Eventvue is set for a public launch later this year. [...]

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TechStars Demo Day - Class of 2007 — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:59:24 +0000

[...] builds social networks around conferences (see confabb, an existing competitor). The idea is to let people connect before, during and after conferences in [...]

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By: Blog World Expo Blog » Here we go

Blog World Expo Blog » Here we go — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:35:51 +0000

[...] Oh by the way, it seems like good karma to me that Confabb launched yesterday. From Marshall @ Tech Crunch: Confabb is a new service launching today that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences. The site offers everything from speaker and event reviews to photos of the events after the fact through integration with Flickr. It’s an impressive full service site that could become the go-to spot for at least tech conference attendees and possibly a wider audience. [...]

By: A Wider Net » Blog Archive » Confabb - Find and Rate Conferences

A Wider Net » Blog Archive » Confabb - Find and Rate Conferences — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:31:09 +0000

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By: SeanBohan.com » Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-14

SeanBohan.com » Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-14 — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:05:31 +0000

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Confabb: Find, Track and Review Conferences So here is an answer to what Dave Winer is investing in. For years my friends and I have been frustrated with there being no central directory for conferences. Sounds like a winner, and Salim is involved too. (tags: conferences service salim winer) [...]

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Novinky zo sveta SW (4) « ján masaryk — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:14:07 +0000

[...] Pripravujete, hľadáte alebo chcete ohodnotiť konferenciu? Pomocou confabb to je veľmi ľahké. Malé hodnotenievyšlo na Techcrunch. [...]

By: Confabb - Search, Track, Discuss and Review Conferences « Kiyo’s Blog

Confabb - Search, Track, Discuss and Review Conferences « Kiyo’s Blog — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:10:59 +0000

[...] Confabb is a new service that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences. It’s already covered by TechCrunch and Scoble. Dave Winer is an investor in it. [...]

By: BenCurtis.com » Blog Archive » Connecting at Conferences

BenCurtis.com » Blog Archive » Connecting at Conferences — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:35:36 +0000

[...] I was a little surprised to read about Confabb this morning. I’ve been working on a similar type of application, ConferenceMeetup, in my spare time. [...]

By: Confabb « InterMedia Blogging Network

Confabb « InterMedia Blogging Network — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:14:17 +0000

[...] Confabb just launched today. The place to find conferences and seminars. This is something I know that Mr. Business Golf will be hitting up hard in the very near future. Not only did we get a nice TechCrunch overview of it, the Scobleizer blog has a video posted. [...]

By: Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:49:14 +0000

Jean Francois, Nemrut, Martin, thanks for the suggestions.

JF, guilty as charged on the search capability! We had a tough call with either waiting several weeks for the search feature to be fully ready and delaying launch till January or going live now and iterating like hell. We tried to, er, de-emphasize some of the missing functionality, but you’ve nailed us.

We’ve been using a set of alpha testers that were complaining loudly that they couldn’t publicly use the site and “when are you going live already goddamit” and it got too loud to ignore. There are about six areas where we could really improve the service and we decided to see the response and let the community decide what our first focus areas ought to be. Better search, better categorization and RSS tracking are the current hot favorites.

Please continue to hold us to task..!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:43:15 +0000

Jean-François, it’s interesting your note about filtering/narrowing results down.

What would be the best way to achieve this in your opinion ?

By: Martin Wells

Martin Wells — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:26:20 +0000

No rss for search results…

By: nemrut

nemrut — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:15:40 +0000

Salim — an immediately useful feature would be to list the number or pages for conf results or have a ‘View All’ link. Right now the painpoint is paging through 10-15 results at a time without knowing how many are left. It would also be nice to sort by alph, date or geographic location.

Anyway nice work..i was geting tired of Googling for potential conferences to attend.

By: Jean-François Petit

Jean-François Petit — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:09:59 +0000

I think a site like Confabb is a great idea. I had a quick look (not an exhaustive analysis) but I was amazed to see that there is no search filtering or narrowing. For example, if you search “food”, Confabb returns 232 conferences. The results are paged (24) and there is no way to narrow down a list according to geographical location, date range or topic subcategory. You are forced to go through the whole list, sorted by date in chronological order, by name or by city. I might have missed something, but user experience would be greatly enhanced if these features were brought in ASAP. Salim: May I ask if there was any real-world user testing before launch? Just curious. It would definitely help you guys develop a better product.

By: Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:54:34 +0000

Hey Danny, thanks for the comments.

Sorry if we seem to have ripped something off. If we used a tag, it was done explicitly based on what the community (or the conference site) is saying - we don’t try and be an authority on that. If we overstepped, I apologize.

Aside from the cursory conference details which are publicly available in any search engine (pun intended!), we only we only use data from users who have explicitly entered it into the system….

Regarding organizer tools, any organizer can ‘claim’ a conference and have full ownership of what is published about it. We have a process in place for that, though clearly it’s not explicit enough. Please give us a call if you have other concerns - we certainly don’t want to be taking actions that are considered unfriendly. And frankly, we’d love to talk and see what else we can/should be doing.

Cheers,
Salim

By: Salim launches Confabb at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

Salim launches Confabb at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:40:23 +0000

[...] My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others. [...]

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:20:15 +0000

^ aw that’s cool salim. i have something that might be helpful, i’ll hit your site and try to find an email.