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2009 conference schedule for the digital media industry

The 2009 conference season begins
Happy new year! Recently, Jason Oberfest of MySpace put together a great resource of a bunch of digital media tech conferences. I added a couple ad-related conferences, and he agreed to graciously share.

Is this list complete?
Of course this list isn’t complete at all. If there’s anything missing in the list, please leave a link in the comments!

The digital media conference list (so far):

Demos and General Technology

Platforms, apps, and widgets

Online Advertising events

Gaming

Finance

Business and analysts

UPDATED: added a couple games and search ones, courtesy reminders from Jameson Hsu, Joe Ludwig, Lee Clancy, Wallen’s, Niki Scevak Charles Hudson, Andrew Parker, and Jonathan Mendez. Thanks!

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Will be in Seattle on Jan 8th and 9th

Freemium business model case study: AdultFriendFinder ARPU, churn, and conversion rates

Twitter links (while still on blog vacation!)

Taking a quick blog vacation…

Video up from Virtual Goods Summit, Metrics for Virtual Goods Businesses: The Whirled Case Study

How to calculate cost-per-acquisition for startups relying on freemium, subscription, or virtual items biz models

Amazon Associates stats for this blog

The Secret History of Silicon Valley (next Thurs, Nov 20)

List of essays from this blog is now up to date!

Twitter links from last week (posted 11/09/2008)

Usability presentation for iPhone apps and store

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Ad-based versus direct monetization: Which one is better for you?

Ad rates drop in social networks, music, entertainment

Amazing presentation on leadgen tactics from Jay Weintraub

Slate on split testing in the McCain and Obama campaign (robo-calling versus text messaging)

Links from my Twitter (Oct 29, 2008)

How to generate awesome test candidates for A/B testing

Virtual items design: Build it yourself or use UGC?

4 major cultural differences between Games people and Web people

Go-to-market strategies for vertical social products

Quick link to another fave blog Altgate, by Furqan Nazeeri

Twitter links from last couple weeks…

I have blogger’s block!

Revenue, ARPU, Funnels, and RPM: My talk from Startonomics on Revenue metrics

The best new games blog you’re not reading yet

Dan Cook’s slides on productivity + last week’s Twitter links

Quick link: List of $350MM of VC investments in social gaming, virtual worlds, casual MMOs, etc

Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links

The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics

Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees

Weekend links from Twitter (9/14/2008)

Growing renewable audiences (a talk at O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures)

Ad targeting talk from Community Next: People Not Pages (updated x2)

Help me fill in the blanks: iPhone platform versus Facebook platform

How to measure if users love your product using cohorts and revisit rates

More weekend links from my Twitter account