It was a long day - wasn't having much luck with getting wireless internet connectivity or a phone connection; either the network was not properly set up or there were too many people using the wireless hot spot at one time.

But here are the highlights of Day 1, and I'll do another post about tonight.

I did not attend most of the sessions today - captured the end of the BIG SEO session featuring Bill Hunt and Marshall Simmonds that I wrote about in Zoom-In.

As I was finishing lunch, over walks Avinash Kaushik, who's at SES NY supporting Google and we spoke for about 10 minutes; it was great seeing him again. Avinash said he now has an office in the GooglePlex (building 4, I think … I don't know for sure, I was never at the GooglePlex).  I mentioned that if all goes well we will be fellow board members of the Web Analytics Association  soon; he said he was not even thinking about running but was asked by Bryan Eisenberg (same as me).  Said he does not know how I do it all, blog so much, work full time at IBM, Paint, have so many SEO Clients - and I replied back that I don't know how I do it either - but somehow, I do.  Avinash gave me his card and then he had to run to the Google sponsored lunch session which I did not attend (I was busy trying to post something here - but lost my internet connection and my computer also crashed).

Next, Sonal Shanker, a coworker from IBM who is attending SES NY, came by and hung out with me for lunch.

Later in the afternoon, I met with one of my clients, GCS, who run several travel distributor sites for Irish and Scottish vacations about their recent website re-design and the metrics around the new sites.

And finally, I ran into Mike Moran, a friend and my former boss at IBM; we ended up talking for a while and going to party later that evening, a very, very exclusive party that I'll cover in another post.