• Keep your eyes peeled: you never know who might sit down next to you — a potential mentor, a potential partner, or, in the case of presenter Soren Stamer, a potential wife. Stamer, who presented Tuesday morning on “Surviving and Thriving in a Web 2.0 World” met his wife two years ago at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The German citizen soon thereafter relocated to San Francisco and the two have, thus far, lived happily ever after in a Web 2.0 world.

• Remember the Skittles social media marketing campaign where they put any and all consumer tweets and Facebook mentions on their homepage? It came as no surprise that people started posting inappropriate messages for a short-lived giggle or claim-to-fame. Who would have guessed that something similar would go down at a conference full of professional adults?

Web 2.0 conference coordinators probably didn’t see this coming when they had the idea to broadcast a real-time Twitter stream on a huge screen on the keynote stage. The tweet stream was enjoyable, albeit slightly distracting, to follow along with. And I’ll admit, I got a little giddy every time my #w2e tweets made it on the screen. The Twitter stream lost its cool factor when some attendees turned on a presenter, making harsh remarks about Danah Boyd’s keynote delivery.

I’ll admit it–Boyd struggled to connect with the audience. She hardly looked up from the document she read straight from and went through her slides at lightening speed. It’s too bad because her concept was intriguing. Boyd’s Twittering post-presentation indicates that she heard laughter in the audience and deflated. Following Boyd’s keynote, the conference coordinators began monitoring the tweet stream, to avoid the rude comments that were previously broadcast. So thenceforth, the stream was a few minutes delayed and only a portion of tweets were streamed. I guess that’s the price that must be paid. Although we are all adults, childish impulses seize to fade.

• Thank you, Chris Brogan for flat out telling me I’m a fool for using Twitter’s Web client. TweetDeck has changed my life … and made me that much more addicted to Twitter.

• Apparently soggy wraps and brick-like sandwiches is all the Javits Center is capable of. Thank goodness for IBM’s Sweet Tweets candy stand. Seriously great idea. If anyone from IBM is reading this, big kudos to whoever hatched that plan.

• I had been missing out on a lot of hilarity occurring on Twitter thanks to The Onion Editor Baratunde Thurston. Please if you haven’t done so already, check out the handle Thurston created, The_Swine_Flu. Receiving a notification saying “The Swine Flu is now following on Twitter” seriously made my day. Thurston spoke about “There’s a hash tag for that” and said, “[Hash tags] seem to be these tiny grassroots movements… They are also a great way to mess with people.” Thurston showed hilarious tweets involving the following hash tags:

#howblackareyou, #worldthinnestbooks, #unseenprequels, #next4dobbs, #webrunchhard, #twammogram, and #greatmomentsintwitterhistory.

Web 2.0 was a lot of fun. Thanks to all the conference staff members, session leaders, and keynote speakers for making it a great show.