Brad points out that both conferences, one in NY, the other in SF, are bursting at the seams, a sure sign of the times. Some speculate that the times they are bubblicious, but I think that's overstating when profitable start-ups with revenue growing at 20+% per month -- funded by mark cuban -- are snatched up for around $25 million.

Add zeros, and you have the 1990s...

But there's no doubt that players in and around the We 2.0 (sic) space are hyper-attentive to one another's moves right now.

Which makes calmly focussing on building a real platform business all that much more valuable.

And which also explains why I was up at 4:00 this morning to fly from NY, and 3:30 tomorrow morning to head to L.A. ... ....