Twitter explosion - 3k per sec!?

I was going to tweet this to my friends but none are in IT and probably would understand.  But did you see how there were over 3,000 tweets per second during the Celtics vs Laker's Game 7.  Then today during the USA vs Algeria World Cup 2010 game there were almost 12 million visitors on the internet.  I'm sure some of this was on twitter which explains why it was down a little today. If you check out twitter's status, they've been having issues for about a week now.  Coincidence? I don't think so.  

Sports is a global interest, especially soccer (ok football), and it is driving internet traffic through the roof.  I wonder how much capacity review and planning the social networking sites and even sports sites like espn.com did in prep for the world cup. It made me think that in general we need to be more aware of user behavior and large events.  Are you in tune with those at your IT shop?

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IT Conferences - Why do you go?

I know that #SPTechcon is not till October a ways away but it is great seeing posts like Mark D's about the sessions coming up.  I've been the past 2 years and it really is a great conference. I looking forward to going because:

1. SP2010: I haven't had a chance to get my feet wet with SharePoint 2010.  But by October, I should have a few installs under my belt and the timing of the sessions will be perfect.

2.  What else do we need with SP2010:  Often forgotten is all the other things you need to support a new product.  In the past, there has been good sessions around the "other" products like DPM and Forefront. We'll need these to operationalize 2010.

3. See what others are doing:  Even with all the reading, blogs, and feeds, it is great to see in person what consultants see in the field and hear from other techs like me.

Those are the big items for me.  Why do you go to conferences?

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Post Uno

Jumping into the blogsphere.  Gitty up!

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