Announcing Lanyrd

No, it isn't a Happy Cog project (it's by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) but we couldn't love Lanyrd, the social conference directory any more if we'd created it ourselves.

Lanyrd uses Twitter to tell you which conferences, workshops and such your friends are attending or speaking at. You can add and track events, and soon you'll be able to export your events as iCal or into your Google calendar (the site is powered by microformats). Soon, too, you'll be able to add...