I'm fresh back from SES in San Jose.
No talk in regards to the staleness, outside of the normal conversations of spam and such.
There was more talk of who's blackhat versus whitehat and why?
Lots of VC's on the floor. The GoogleDance was pretty kewl too.
Great business development opportunities out there.
There was 1 jacked up TV company there that introduced themselves in a manner that did not garner a very warm welcome from the SEO/SEM community.
Also, SEMPO was the talk of the show as well.
All in all, a great show for business...just not a lot of talk regarding change.
Yahoo and MSN seem to be the ones to keep your eye on. Interviews with some of these guys will be forthcoming on
http://www.ynotradio.com