Confabb, the world’s largest database of conferences and trade shows, launched today. Don’t let its size fool you though, Confabb is a whole lot more than just a big database.
We all go to a lot of conferences and try to keep abreast of everything planned for the shows, either before we go or while we are there. And deciding on what conference to attend is made more complicated by the fact that there is no central hub on the Web where one can search for, track and plan for conference or trade shows.
Moreover, when you’ve come home from a conference, all that great content and commentary is usually lost.
For these reasons we’ve built Confabb. Confabb is a tool for conference attendees, organizers and speakers. Confabb lets you search for conferences, track updates to conference agendas, see who is attending and speaking and offer feedback after it’s all done. You can also see what bloggers are saying and see pictures taken during the show through Flickr’s API.
TechCrunch has more:
At launch the site includes details on more than 16,000 conferences and anyone can fill out a form to submit other events for consideration. Confabb calls itself the largest conference database in the world. It’s a very well put together site; there are both standard categories and tags, integration of off-site resources, reputation management, user watch pages to track a number of events, a badge generator to post conference logos on your blog and iCal export of your conference list. Attendees and watchers can list themselves for public display.
Full story here.
A lot of very smart people are behind Confabb including Salim Ismail, Jon Mandell and Cameron Barrett.
I invite you all to give Confabb a spin. Let me know if this is something helpful and of course, don’t forget to digg this story.
Update: Robert Scoble has an interview with Salim and some thoughts on Confabb’s utility:
Is this a cool demo? Nah, not like last week’s Photosynth. Will it put Microsoft out of business? Nah. But is it something that you will probably use? I think so, at least if you’re going to go to a conference.
Robert’s post is here.
Update 2: There’s a whole lot of coverage, some of it I’ve put up on the Confabb blog and the rest you can find for yourself.
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