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I love being the bearer of good tidings, so here goes - the podcasts of all the sessions at Content 2.0 are now available to download.

The day saw leading experts and practitioners in the digital space - from Yahoo!, Microsoft, MySpace, BBC, Broadband Mechanics and elsewhere - come together with an informed audience for a day of talks and discussion on some of the key issues and developments facing the content industries.

Social networks, user-generated content and ownership of digital identity, blogging and control, Marketing 2.0, brands and trust, social search and recommendation, folksonomy and tagging, and the habits and attitudes of digital natives were explored and debated with the audience. Listen at your leisure here.

UK web pioneer and serial entrepreneur Ivan Pope will be a guest contributor in the Search & Enjoy forum at Content 2.0.

Ivan started his internet career as publisher of The World Wide Web Newsletter in 1993. He sold this to Future Publishing and became the consultant editor for the launch of .net magazine in 1994.

After inventing the Cybercafe, he co-founded Webmedia which went on to become, briefly, the leading UK web design and build company.

While at Webmedia, he founded the world’s first domain name company, NetNames. NetNames was sold in 2000 to Nebenefit and Pope joined the board of this LSE listed company. A short lived incubator, Pregenensis followed, after which Pope ‘retired’ to Brighton to look after his two small children.

Justin Kirby, a recognised innovator in the UK (and latterly Australian) multimedia and digital marketing scene since the eighties will be contributing to the Content 2.0 forum session "Marketing 2.0 = Content 2.0".

Justin started his career in the mid-80s working on groundbreaking multimedia installation projects, including the famous Herbie Hancock video robotics models.

In 1994, Justin founded Digital Media Communications Ltd (DMC). Based in England and Australia, DMC are expert connected marketing consultants.

The audience at Content 2.0 is already shaping up to be a diverse and interesting one, with delegates coming from as far afield as Wales, Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin and Helsinki.

In addition to the organisations listed below, several people have booked in an indvidual capacity. [*List UPDATED 2nd June 2006].

Don't miss your chance to discuss and debate the future of marketing, search & recommendation, branding and more in the Web 2.0 era with global thought leaders and practitioners in the field. Book now! 

Serial entrepologist Sam Sethi will be a guest contributor in the Search & Enjoy session of the Content 2.0 conference NMK can confirm.

[UPDATE]: Sam Sethi has taken up a new role as of 22nd May - he is joining BT as Director Of Product Development.

The panelists for this afternoon session - which follows Bradley Horowitz's keynote on The Future of Web Search and a scene-setter on Folksonomy (speaker TBC) - are Suranga Chandratillake of Blinkx, Alex Barnett, MSDN International Program Manager for Microsoft and Last.fm Senior Web Architect Matthew Ogle. Mike Grehan of Marketsmart Interactive is chairing.

Longstanding online publishing editor and director Sheila Sang will be a guest contributor in the Search & Enjoy session, NMK can confirm.

The panelists for this afternoon session - which follows Bradley Horowitz's keynote on The Future of Web Search and a scene-setter on Folksonomy (speaker TBC) - are Suranga Chandratillake of Blinkx, Alex Barnett, MSDN International Program Manager for Microsoft and Last.fm Senior Web Architect Matthew Ogle. Mike Grehan of Marketsmart Interactive is chairing.

Dropped by Bradley’s blog today only to discover he was interviewed for the US programme Market Watch in April 2006 about social search!

He touched on points he’ll be expanding on in his keynote talk on ‘The Future Of Web Search’ at the Content 2.0 conference on 6th June.

The interviewer Bambi Francisco - gotta love that name! - said the next chapter of the web will be all about sharing what we find and what we know.

Bradley explained that Yahoo! want to grow sites like Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming and Yahoo Answers...

Matt Locke - Innovation Director at the BBC Innovation Team - joins the Content 2.0 debate as a guest contributor in the Search & Enjoy session, NMK can confirm.

[UPDATE]: Matt will now be giving the scenesetter talk:  'Folksonomies: What Are They Good For?' For more details see the Schedule.

Matt's boss, BBC Director Of New Media & Technology Ashley Highfield gave a facinating interview to Content 2.0 media partner New Media Age last week on their long terms plans. But unfortunately most of the NMA feature articles aren't accessible on their website to non-subscribers, so no link love there sadly!

Nicholas Roope from Poke London will be a guest contributor in the conference session Marketing 2.0 = Content 2.0.

Poke London are one of the most acclaimed digital marketing agencies in Britain - but they are also rare in the agency landscape for their advocacy of Web 2.0 marketing techniques.

And in this period of agency aquisitions they remain independent.

Clients include Boots, Orange, Yahoo! and Top Gear.

Poke also took part in the recent BBC Innovation Labs.

Everyone's jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon, but public discussion of these trends is still playing catch-up with the fast-moving expert debate around the subject...

NMK has thrown its hat into the ring on this front, and announced the details of its conference 'Content 2.0' to be held in London at the RSA on 6th June.

Posing the question, 'what is the value of content?', the conference addresses the current and future impact of social networks, user generated content (such as MySpace, recently purchased by News Corporation) and disruptive technologies on the business and marketing models of the digital content industries - music, film, TV, radio, games and publishing.