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Went to Search Champs v4 last week, Flickr pictures and list of attendees on Emily Chang’s blog. I participated in the community track, basically we were providing feedback to search team on social filtering/community tools they are integrating into search. The overall feedback to the team seemed to be “solid work” but they could be taking greater risks in their prototyping. On the whole people seemed to find the experience rewarding, appreciating the opportunity to a) provide MSN with feedback that would impact the quality of their products and b) schmooze with each other. The three most interesting people I met were mary hodder, who told me a bit about her new project Dabble, John Musser, who has implemented programmableweb , a very cool site providing a repository of “mashup” web applications, and chris pirillo of lockergnome who’s organizing gnomedex here in Seattle with his fiance Ponsi. Brady Forrest organized the event and I thought he did a great job, it’s definitely improved over the years. At one point late in the evening I looked around me and realized I was sitting with Brady, Rael Dornfest and Chris…all who organize these events and were the last ones up chatting. Coincidence, to find yourself at a table full of connectors?