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Defrag 2008 Conference - Nov. 3-4, Denver, CO - Tuesday at 1pm Ilya will be presenting on a panel entitled Fixing Foundational Information Channels: Email, Calendars, RSS, etc.. Carol and Jim will also be attending.

ApacheCon US 2008 - Nov. 3-7, New Orleans, LA - Jim will be attending this one, and is looking to connect with SOLR-minded folks.

RubyConf 2008 - Nov. 6-8, Orlando, FL - Ilya will be presenting Ruby Heavy-Lifting: Lazy load it, Event it, Defer it, and then Optimize it on Friday at 3:05pm.

To say hi or connect with our folks while they’re out in the wild, their Twitter handles are: @carolleaman, @jimmurphy, and @igrigorik. You can also ping @aiderss and I can be your switchboard operator.

The rest of us will just be back here in Ontario, enjoying the grey skies and sleet of November while our compatriots nibble beignets and sip mojitos and such… Not that we’re bitter…

This morning we passed 100 million PostRanks served. That’s 100,000,000 for those who like things numerical. w00t!

What’s especially cool is that that’s not even 100 million PostRanks served since the company launched. That’s 100 million since our PostRank launch in July! That’s 79 days, or just shy of 1,265,823 PostRanks per day. (Of course things have ramped up over time.)

Being the ambitious sorts that we are, we’re already looking forward to our 1 billionth PostRank served. (Based on North American number schemes, since we never could figure how the British count those big numbers…)

At the Red Herring conference last week, the Top 50 Awards were presented, and AideRSS was chosen as a winner!Carol, our CEO, was on hand to receive the award and to present about AideRSS.

Our congratulations go out to our fellow Tech Capital portfolio companies Overlay.TV and Sindense, as well, for their wins.

Some photos from the Third Tuesday event in Toronto.

Some photos from the 2008 Tech Capital Foosball Tournament.

As a side note, we won the prestigious Hardest Working Company designation… because we lost early, lost often, and then were forced to spend the rest of the evening sipping beers, nibbling nachos, and playing pool.  It was rough.

Oh well, when our toil and dedication results in us getting bought by Google, and we’re cruising through the Timmy’s drive thrus of the K-dub in our gold-plated Aston Martins, we’ll see how shiny that Foosball Champion trophy looks…

November 6-8 in Orlando, FL, Ruby aficionados will gather for the Eighth International Ruby Conference (RubyConf08 to its friends).

Ilya will be presenting the snazzily named Ruby Heavy-Lifting: Lazy load it, Event it, Defer it, and then Optimize it.

And don’t forget, Ilya’s an award-winning Ruby dude, so it’s bound to be good!