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Participants in the first Money:Tech Conference last February were given the opportunity to get ahead of the curve of financial disaster. Speakers there identified how, thanks to the illusion of modern financial theory, market participants piled on risk through ever more complex instruments financed by ever more leverage. When confidence in just one set of the model-derived instruments was shaken by rising mortgage defaults, the entire financial structure began to melt down. We expect to see more of the future—and what to do about it—onstage at the second edition of Money:Tech, happening February 4-6, 2009 in New York.

ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, is O'Reilly Media's flagship "O'Reilly Radar" event. Since 2002, ETech has brought to light the disruptive yet important innovations that we see on the horizon, rather than the ones that have already arrived, honing in on what's going to be making a difference not this year, or maybe even next year, but around the corner as the market digests the next wave of hacker-led surprises.

The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference will be happening February 9-11, 2009, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square, in New York, to explore emerging trends around digital publishing.

eVisibility, a Carlsbad-based Internet Marketing Company, will be presenting at the November San Diego Web Technologies Group Meetup. Miguel Salcido & Steven Peron will discuss Advanced SEO Techniques.

Thursday, 11/20 @ 7 p.m.
$10 per person

Location: Hampton Inn
123 Carmel St.
San Marcos, CA 92078
(760) 736-9249

To RSVP, go to our Meetup site.

It is that time again! BarCamp San Diego 4 wil be held at Intuit's 'Santa Fe' campus in Carmel Valley on 11/15 (Saturday) & 11/16 (Sunday), 10 a.m. Saturday through 6 p.m. Sunday. To learn more about the event, check out the BarCamp San Diego website at www.barcampsd.org. To sign up for the unconference, got the the BCSD wiki at www.barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiego. Hope to see you there!

This user group now has a brand-new Web site, built from scratch using Drupal, by Web developer Michael J. Ross (SDWTG's webmaster). The site is kindly hosted by SDWTG member Ryan Belong of Studio 3-G.

There were several reasons that prompted this effort. While the old site was adequate for the group's needs, it was based upon the CMS Joomla, which in August 2008 had a severe security hole, which allowed countless Joomla-based Web sites to get hacked, including ours. Also, the redevelopment was a good excuse to learn more about Drupal and its capabilities!

If you missed the South by Southwest 2008 Festival in Austin, TX, then attendance in 2009 is a must! The festival will be taking place March 13-22. Interactive and Film: will be March 13-17, and Music will be March 17-22.