DevCon (Precursor to eBay Live!) Has Begun!

If eBay Live! is the extroverted older brother who plays quarterback on the high school football team and quickly gets to know everyone at a party, the Developers Conference is his quiet, brilliantly geeky younger brother who builds a rocketship in the garage and is consulted by NASA even before he goes to MIT.

The long and short of this elaborately contrived analogy is that the Developers' Conference, the not-so-well-known precursor to eBay Live! (unless you're a developer, in which case it's the only event that really matters) began in Chicago yesterday. The Developers Conference is the biggest event in eBay's Developers Program.

You can keep tabs on the goings-on at the event through the Developers Blog. It already has a slew of reporting on events avidly followed by our Developer community, including Rajiv Dutta's Keynote Address, eBay's Product Roadmap, Max Mancini's Keynote, some of our Web service code lab sessions, and our own occasional Chatter blogger Delyn's rundown on this year's Star Developer Awards.