O'Reilly's Brady Forrest threw a solid pre-pre-pre party for this fall's NYC Web 2.0 Expo last night in TriBeCa. "Ignite" featured more than a dozen speakers giving PowerPoint presentations about topics from open-source gadgets to indie games. Highlights:
- Writer Jessica Bruder's report on a NYPD training course: "How to be an Undercover Hooker"
- Path101 founder Charlie O'Donnell's overview on self-induced baldness: When to Bic, and when not to
- Entrepreneur-in-residence Nate Westheimer's Charisma 101
- The New York Times' Nick Bilton on the future of news
- I'minlikewithyou founder Charles Forman's "How to date celebrichauns with founder fetish," based on a true story, during which he publicly broke it off with Wired cover girl Julia Allison (see video)
Photo/video: Nick McGlynn