It happened once again. The most important conference on the Web was hosted in Beijing, China.

Fortunately, I was able to attend it once again, but only after an entire week on vacations. I have to say that I loved China. A huge country, filled with great, kind people. I had the chance of having three buddies with me on this trip, which was great!

Shanghai. For those who know (and like) New York City, you will feel comfortable in Shanghai. A very cosmopolite city, filled with skyscrapers. Lots of excellent street food (even for a vegetarian like me). Lots of bargaining, which I translated into a shiny new Canon EOS 40D for half the price, and a brand new Sony Cyber-shot T300. You can see their quality in my Flickr account.

Beijing. The great city in the north. A HUGE city, may I say. Had the pleasure of travelling to the Great Wall, more specifically to the Mutianyu section.

Conference days. I presented on W4A, which I was attributed with the best paper award. Great news! On the second day I presented on WebEvolve, the Web Science Workshop. The next three days were enjoying the main WWW conference, with excellent keynote speeches, excellent papers (some Google guys presented there a PageRank for images), and excellent food.

I deeply recommend everyone to go to China when possible. And WWW, well, it continues with its excellency on research and industry.

THE Web conference will happen once again. This time, it'll be hosted in Beijing, China. It's the main venue for both researchers and industry that have a stake in the Web's past, present, and future.

I'll be there too, presenting my humble research work both at W4A and WSW. If you're attening, please feel free to drop by!

Today (May 1st) I'm heading off to WWW2007, at Banff, Canada. The beautiful Banff Springs Hotel will host this huge conference, where I'll be part of the volunteers staff, helping out when and where necessary.

Also, on May 7th, I'll be presenting at W4A - Web4All - some progressions on my research work towards getting my PhD degree. Hopefully, I'll come back with lots of interesting ideas to improve my work.

The Bonus: since the conference starts at the 7th, I have five days of skiing and hanging out with lots of great people I met last year at WWW2006 in Edinburgh, some sort of a (well deserved?) vacation period :)

Concerning this blog... I guess I'll try to post some things while at the conference (live updates maybe?). After all, this is the Web conference!