If RipVanWinkle had walked into the Hilton NewYork to attend SES NewYork2010, he might not have realized right away that a revolution had taken place since he'd attended Search Engine Strategies NYC 2004.
That's why the six years between Search Engine Strategies NYC 2004 and SES NewYork2010 seems like the 20 years that RipVanWinkle was asleep. Antti Aapakari, the CEO at Luxus in Finland, made this comment on one of my RipVanWinkle posts...
If RipVanWinkle woke up last month and re-read the agenda for Search Engine Strategies NYC 2004, he might not notice that a revolution had taken place. Here's a partial answer: If RipVanWinkle hasn't been to the expo hall in six years, he last...
Even though it's too late to attend SES NewYork2010, it's not too late to give RipVanWinkle a wake up call. In Washington Irving's story story, RipVanWinkle falls asleep before the American Revolutionary War and wakes up 20 years after it.
As I glanced through the agenda, I felt like RipVanWinkle. But, I suspect that there are other RipVan Winkles out there, who don't realize yet how much has changed since the last Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo they attended.