Day 1 (and 2) of SES 2006
So I would say my first day of the conference went well. The sessions were pretty good, particularly a lunchtime Q&A with three Google engineers and an afternoon session on search behavior (including eye tracking studies from Enquiro).
We celebrated with a fantastic meal at Mesa Grill.
I missed the Ask.com Code Red party (ok, I’m sure I could have gone, but it was late), but while catching up on my daily feed reading I found out that Robert Scoble was in my hotel and looking to go out for a late night snack! So I called him on his conveniently posted cell phone number and off we went to the Roxy Deli in Times Square.
While we were there Scoble got a call from Matt Cutts from Google, so headed over to the Hilton to chat. After running a gauntlet of SEOs (interesting crowd those SEOs) we sat down sans alcohol (the bar closed just as we walked in).
Just as the hour was getting late, who would walk by and join us but Danny Sullivan.
Sadly the hour grew even later and thus it was time to part ways, but it was a pretty good first day.
update: I forgot to give Danny Sullivan a hard time for talking trash about web developers during the Search Engine Basics session