As someone who used to hang out in all these strange and exciting places, I'm happy to know it's all still happening despite the mainstream takeover.
Several well-known technologists and software developers were invited to an internal conference for the development staff at amazon.com headquarters this week. Most corporations would close an event like this to outsiders, which is what Amazon has done also. The major difference being that they’ve been blogging highlights of the talks to the rest of the world via the Amazon Web Services Blog.
Who knew flying a kite could be so hazardous?