We’re presenting at MeshU in a few hours. The subject is web monitoring — not just analytics, but things like synthetic testing, usability, and so on. The Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa technology community is here in force, and the lineup of presenters is impressive (and intimidating.)It’s a big deck, and Slideshare isn’t behaving well. But the presentation (in .pptx format) is available in Bitcurrent’s drop.io dropbox.

Update: Now Slideshare is working, so here’s the deck:

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We’ll be presenting on web monitoring at MeshU.

Mesh is a part of Mesh, Canada’s web conference, which happens in mid-May in Toronto. Given Microsoft’s recent announcement of the Mesh technology to synchronize all your digital content, they can probably make a killing on the URL.

This will be a workshop/tutorial on the state of web monitoring, including web analytics, synthetic testing, and how to build monitor-ability into applications. I’m using lots of monitoring tools on Bitcurrent to collect raw materials for the session.

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I’ll be attending Mesh, in Toronto, this year. I’ve heard lots about it from many Canadian technologists, but haven’t been myself. It’s a two-day event in May with an impressive lineup.

I met Matthew Ingram, one of the guys behind the conference, in Toronto recently. Matt also writes a great technology blog with the Globe and Mail. He said the conference happened somewhat informally at first, but it’s now grown into a full-fledged event.

One of the things Mesh does right is support undergraduate attendance with discount tickets (already sold out!) for students. It’s the technology world version of the cheap tickets Broadway releases for starving actors.