Take a sneak peek at the new Singularity web site on Google App Engine. You can sign up for the site, which will go live in July, and register your interest in the conference and help me test out the deployment environment. (And yes, Singularity is inverting its colors for the second half of the year.)

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It gives me great pleasure to announce our first confirmed sponsors for the Singularity web conference. It's an impressive list that includes Influxis, lynda.com, Yahoo! Developer Network, BBC Backstage, Triptyk, and AMEE.

Ever since I first hatched the idea for a global web conference, I've had nothing but the most encouraging support from my family, friends, fellow speakers, and the community at large. Thank you all for your sheer enthusiasm, passion, and support. It moves me when I think that everyone on the sponsors list basically came on board immediately after hearing about Singularity.

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Stephanie just DMed me on Twitter, linking to Dave's post about how Plaxo appears to be releasing user's email addresses.

My gut feeling towards Plaxo is the same as the one I have for Real (RealVideo, etc.) -- I just don't feel a sense of trust because of how they behaved in the past. I was giving Plaxo a second chance since people told me they'd changed, etc., but -- really -- I'm on way too many social networks and I don't need my email address being wantonly exposed around the web by some third party.

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Our friends at Mozilla are trying to set a world record today for the most software downloaded in 24 hours to mark the launch of Firefox 3.

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The Pistach.io Flash pack has officially kicked off and I want to take this opportunity to thank our first advertisers.

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