Natali Del Conte

I was invited to the Under The Radar conference at the Microsoft Mountain View campus today. I was only able to attend the first half of the day because I am off to watch the Giants in Spring Training this weekend with my father. (Go Giants!)

Nevertheless, the first half of the conference was good. I liked the scheduling apps WAY better than all the wiki presentations. Note to presenters: when you say “the distinguishing feature of our application is our user interface,” it essentially means, “We did what everyone else does, but we think we made it a little more aesthetically pleasing.” Yawn!

See my coverage for PC Magazine here.

This is a cool movement. Make sure you participate next Thursday, March 22! Click here to watch a TeXtra promo for Bum Rush The Charts!

I went to a VC event last night where there was a keynote given by Shai Agassi, president of product technology at SAP. It was mostly about enterprise technology, which is a space that I don’t cover, but there was some interesting parts. I’m glad I went. See my write-up here.

A press representative from Pictopia sent me an announcement today about the company powering a new photo store with National Geographic. It’s really cool. You can order high-quality shots of the wild and far things that the magazine is famous for to display in your home. Read my review here.

Last night I made my first radio appearance on The David Lawrence Show. Forty minutes into it we were discussing DRM and my apartment started shaking. It was a 4.2 earthquake that was centered in the East Bay. Needless to say, it disrupted my train of thought and I wasn’t all that articulate about BitTorrent in the ensuing conversation. Which I think was okay.

Now, I’m a native Californian so I’m used to earthquakes but it still takes me awhile to regain my ground, pun intended, afterwards. But I was able to finish the show thankfully, in time for my mother’s “Why do you live in San Francisco!?” lecture.

Anyway, thanks to David for being so patient with me and my earthquake, and kudos to the rest of you here in the Bay Area who rocked out with me!

So I was nominated as a Techbabe this week on Valleywag. My parents are so proud! (That’s sarcasm, by the way. They were actually more like, “What is this???”) Anyway, I was winning hands-down the first few days until a Miss Kristin Reilly of Digital Trends came out of the woodworks and took the lead. I guess her parents are out-voting my parents, which is fine. Take it away girl!