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Back in March I was on a panel at SXSW: Beyond Aggregation — Finding the Web’s Best Content, with Marshall Kirkpatrick, Micah Baldwin, Louis Gray, and Gabe Rivera.

The audio is now available.

(No video, but you can check out my awesome cowboy hat here.)

DemoCamp 20 went down in Toronto on Monday, and a good time was had by all. (Free pizza and beer didn’t hurt…)

The KW area folks rocked the end of the evening, with Ignite presentations (20 slides, 15 seconds each) by Ilya and Ali at Well.ca

Thanks to the Techvibes folks, we have a video of it:

Toronto DemoCamp20, Video 4 / 4: Ilya Grigorik of AideRSS, followed by Ali Asaria of Well.ca

And their post: DemoCamp returns to Toronto

And yes, he did mention porn, in a statistical way. (Around 1:07 in the video.)

RailsConf 2009 took place in Las Vegas at the beginning of May, and Ilya did a couple of presentations.

The decks can be found on SlideShare:

Ruby Proxies for Scale, Performance, and Monitoring

(Also: related blog post.)

Building Mini Google in Ruby

Additionally, there’s an audio interview on Akita on Rails from the conference as well.

Yesterday at meshU in Toronto, Ilya presented on Henry Ford & Event-Driven Architecture. (After a brief weather-related delay…)

His slides from the presentation are at the bottom of the post as well.

Additionally, Mark Evans interviewed Ilya with some questions about his topic a little while back, and the Q&A is posted on the mesh blog.

I attended the Branham 300 Awards reception in Waterloo last night where AideRSS/PostRank was named one of the Top 25 Up and Coming technology companies in the country! w00t!

Being recognized with any kind of an award is always a thrill, and once again we’re humbled to be included on a list with a lot of other great companies we know and respect. It’s further validation that we’re doing something that matters to more than just those of us who work here.

Branham did a really nice job of thoroughly analyzing the Canadian tech landscape and the complete list of winners is included in the latest edition of Backbone magazine.

Huge thanks to our strong community of users and supporters who continue to like what we do and offer us great feedback. We’ve got so much more on tap in the months to come that we hope the awards keep rolling in!