Next Sat­ur­day I’m fly­ing to Las Vegas — Microsoft invited me to attend the Mix 2010 con­fer­ence. Look­ing for­ward — of course, I’ll keep you updated via my blog and Twitter.

Wel­come to the weekly blog round-up — a lot has hap­pened dur­ing the last seven days. Every­body was talk­ing about Google Wave, and Loic Le Meur announced that Seesmic will soon release a browser-based ver­sion of their client.

Con­tenture reverses the clas­si­cal online adver­tis­ing model by offer­ing users ad-free sites and enabling web­mas­ter to build Freemium con­tent busi­ness mod­els. Very inter­est­ing launch — I just registered.

The last week was as all about Google Wave: will the new Open Source app rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way we com­mu­ni­cate online? Read last week’s break­ing news on datadirt’s weekly round-up of the blogosphere.

From gen­der dif­fer­ences to sud­den twit­ter deaths the last week was a joyride of emo­tions — blog­ging busi­ness as usual.

Wid­getized side­bars come with extra-comfort and a nifty drag-and-drop bonus, but things tend to get com­pli­cated when you want to use the same wid­get in more than one side­bare. But fear not, plug-in help is available.

Twit­ter is expe­ri­enc­ing secu­rity issues, the blo­gos­phere finally gets to know the 3 rules of the inter­net and the new year inevitably takes its course — wel­come to the sec­ond weekly round-up of 2009.

Have you thrown your daily pig already? Is there any sig­nif­i­cance to using super­poke? Doc­tor Kim de Vries inves­ti­gates the mys­ter­ies of sym­bolic com­munca­tion in her lat­est paper.

Microsoft’s sur­face hard­ware enables coders to cre­ate amaz­ing inter­faces. Is this what the future work­place will look like?