Attended this year's Donews Beijing gathering. Thanks L.S. for telling me about it. As I heard about it only in the morning, I didn't have time to register, so by the time I got in (after being on the waiting list), all the seats had already been taken. I mingled in the room outside, exchanged some name cards. Ran into an ex-colleague from Verity who is now with Google. He is one of the exceptions; everyone else seems to have gone over toYahoo. (Yahoo's current emphasis on social paradigms seems to bear their imprint.)