Agreed. It's the perfect thing to pay someone else to run for you. Someone who's very focused on making this service great.

Or read this essay by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

We're using it in production and loving it.

The date of the conference is October 17, 2009. Your screen resolution is vintage! I didn't realize folks were still using 800x600.

It shouldn't matter what resolution people are using; sites should degrade gracefully. You never know when you're going to have someone with a visual disability, or using a screen reader trying to use your site.

> what do you expect to learn from speakers > that you already haven't read on the web?

Are you kidding? Do you think the only thing to learn from someone is what they've written on the web?