Some lovely folks have stepped up recently to ensure there is food in your bellies and shirts on your back at the Web 2point2 event next week so I wish to give a big ‘thanks’ to our new Alpha sponsors; Yahoo!, oDesk and The WELL, and to the Personal Bee who has signed on as a Gold Web Release sponsor.

I also realized I had not given proper (written) thanks to our sponsors who had stepped up first to sponsor the Web 2point2 event. Your initial support gave us the belief we really could pull this off while doing something cool here. Sure we had two months to plan this time (compared to one week last year), but this one is a little bigger - and we are getting a little more adventurous with the format - so it is nice to have those extra weeks to put it all together, and your support to get us through that initial sticker shock. So, big hugs and a huge ‘thank you’ needs to go out to our venue sponsor, Microsoft - Beta sponsor Furl - and Alpha sponsors Fleishman Hillard, Joyent, Laughing Squid, Loomia, SpotDJ, and Wordpress.

There has been some help on the non-monetary side and we wish to send a big ‘love’ to Blue Whale Labs for our kick ass t-shirt design, Future Works for some love on the PR side, Rate It All for always being there to lend a hand, BuzzLogic for the music support at the after party, Mighty Leaf for donating a box of my favorite tea, and SxSW for some link love.

Thank you all for your support. Thank you all for believing in us.