it it were’n so much fun I would travel that far

And meeting with so many cool people really rocked … I’ll follow up with a name list as I post the pics with them a bit later today (hope I’ll make it to the deadline of the Pubcon drinking game

Meanwhile a couple of nice and interesting things happened that really deserve a quick link dump – (in an unordered quick link dump fashion)

Jim Boykin’s son was born – welcome to the Sandbox Nate Boykin

Greg Boser became 40 and I had the honor to hist pretty cool party in the G-Lounge of the Palms casino… as you will see later I got some nice shots from there

Todd Malicoat/Stunddubl relaunched his site’s design and finally takes commments again

Tony Spencer confirms cross-linink still burns … well – good thing I got so many (don’t ask me about a number different IPs and IP-Class networks for all my projects

I got approved to the Multivariate Testing Tool of Google called “Website Optimizer” and will play with that soon… too bad I just recently launched *my onw A/B split testing infrastructure… oh well – it could have been worse to implement an own multivar-tester

Best of the Web got yet another promo running – you can SAVE 25% using the promo code SAVE25 (that’s an easy one to remember fortunately as I read in some mag during my flight)

And I got WAY too many emails still unanswered, from clients, friends and partners… and I haven’t even done these, not to mention follow ups with new contacts from Las Vegas …

So I’m ending here now – get ready to see more soon.

Some of that will be

A FULL AND HONEST review of Snapnames my experience from buying a total of over 50 expired / preferred list domains at snapnames after finding the with the DRT and I got a lot to tell about them… some old and crusty domains were cheap to get but the overall impression and workflow with snapnames wasn’t as nice… and then there is domain kiting …

A FULL AND HONEST review of sticking with Brad Callen’s “NICHE REVOLUTION” club, a somewhat closed membership program that gives out two “info products” (AKA ebooks and audio books) to market yourself -including some creatives… presuming you know a lot about keyword research, PPC, link building, SEO etc that’s a nice thing to play with… obviously people start dropping out as they lowered the price from $97 to $47 already – a sell out?

[img_assist|nid=1067|title=Shawn Hogan Owner of Digitalpoint and Christoph C. Cemper|desc=Shawn Hogan is the owner of the famous DP forums and the hero that went to court against the MPAA for false MP3 download accusations|link=node|width=160|height=130]

Greg Boser at Webmaster Bash getting outranked at the Studio 8 bar by a link spammer

Jake from TrueLocal – Dana from Webmasterradio and Becky from BruceClay doing the Sumo at the webmaster bash 2006

hope you enjoy!

Laura from Yahoo and Melissa from Bodog at the Ask.com party Aug 8

Jim Boykin from WebBuildPages and Christoph Cemper at the Ask.com party Aug 8

This girl was working like a dog to dish out great drinks at the Ask.com party bar

Jan from Friendscout24, Todd / Stuntdubl and Tim from sitetuners at Ask’s party

Krystal did a great job serviing some del.icio.us food

People were really having a great fun dancing to all sorts of music styles at the Ask-Party… great mood there!

Monte and Christoph at the Ask.com party SES San Jose 2006

Christoph C. Cemper and Aaron Wall (Mr. SEOBOOK) at the ASK.com party in San Jose 2006

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The party was a great warmup event with roughly only 100-150 people there a very cosy and private athmosphere… Matt Cutts from Google and Tim Meyer from Yahoo where there as well and had the usual crowd of 15 people around them, so taking pictures wasn’t so easy – in any case you can check out Matt Cutts and me at the PubCon in Vegas last year

Laura Lippay from Yahoo, “Greg Boser”:”Greg Boser”:http://general.webguerrilla.com/ses-party-sunday-night/ and Christoph C. Cemper in San Jose 2006

Danny Sullivan and Christoph C. Cemper in San Jose 2006

Jim Boykin, Monte Baumgartner and me at the Bodog party Aug 6 in San Jose

Marcus Tandler aka Mediadonis from Cia.de and me at the Bodog party

Laura from Yahoo New Media team, Greg Boser aka WebGuerilla, Rand Fishkin from SeoMoz and me

Chris Boggs and Jim Boykin

Pascal Fantou and me in San Jose 2006

In case you didn’t hear that – we will have one of the most prominent names in the search engine industry on stage here on Wednesday. Google CEO Eric Schmidt will join Danny for a conversation, in a morning session where they will discuss Google’s “growing and dealing with challenges and issues in search.”

Great place to be!

Update: Dave has some more pics

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