Regardless of the travel problems, I did make it home from ETech. The conference wasn't quite was I was expecting, but the people I met made it worth the trip. ETech was filled with enthusiastic, friendly, alpha-geeks who all share a passion for learning, pushing technology, and sharing what they find.
There have been plenty of people blogging about ETech, and lots of pictures posted from the event, so I won't duplicate that work here, but I wanted to include a few links that came either from presentations or derivatives there-of:
Google's new site for linking to code that uses the Google APIs: http://code.google.com/
Chris Anderson's site about The Long Tail economics: http://www.thelongtail.com/
One of the many interesting services built on the flickr APIs: http://mappr.com/
A9's open search project: http://a9.com/-/opensearch/
An example search engine description for A9: http://www.koders.com/search/KodersSourceCodeSearchDescription.xml
Search engine research divisions: http://next.yahoo.com/ http://research.yahoo.com/ http://labs.google.com/
Yahoo! predictive market tech buzz game: http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/
Google personalized search: http://labs.google.com/personalized/
BBC phonetags project: (think del.icio.us for live radio) http://rnd.historicalfact.com/phonetags/
Tor: "The Onion Routing" project http://tor.eff.org/