It's MashupMania Time

"Oh yeah...." those of you who ever watched WWF will remember Randy "Macho Man" Savage and his famous "Oh Yeah" line that he would use just as he started an interview.

Well, that's kind of what I'm expecting at the Mashup Mania event that O'Reilly's crew has put together next week at the eTel conference which is shaping up to be great.

Om Malik has his first of a series of LaunchPad events, and a swank party which clients Covad and Grand Central are sponsoring on Tuesday night that has been engineered by the smartest guy I know, Surj Patel. There is also, as Bruce Stewart points out a MashUp event during eTel too that will be worth hacking around at.

This is where the chest thumping, bragging will happen and rightfully so. There is a lot of amazing new technology out there and my instincts tell me that LaunchPad and the Mashup events will be the highlights of eTel.