Project FAZR really heating up and OR Mapper Guide update

As you might've read on Robert Scoble's recent post (well, as of August 12th, 2005 at about 5pm..sheesh that guy posts a lot!), he linked to the Project FAZR Blogs and wonder if we'll come up with anything. To that I say, "of course we'll come up with something!"

The question is, "What will it be?"

There have been a lot of interesting ideas pitched so far and just a ton of talking going on in general among us. We're actually trying to follow Scoble's lead in terms of putting word-of-mouth marketing, blogging, and cool ideas to work for us. I'd say it's still all an experiment at this point. Hey Scoble - where are the best conferences, nerd dinners, and other events to attend to get your name out there and circulate some buzz? We'd love to hear some advice from you, Mr. "Red Couch at Gnomedex" ;-)

Although it's just the seven of us at this point - we will still be looking for certain skill sets once we decided on a product so if you're interested there is still time to submit your name to us.

On another note - today I submitted my first draft of the HowToSelectGuide for O/R Mappers for .NET. I'm looking forward to hearing what the really smart people reviewing it have to say...hopefully it won't get torn up too badly. We profiled 37 different vendors and their products for the Guide and my hopes are that it will end up being a somewhat authoratative guide on the who's who in O/R Mapping. Oh, and they've already posted the Guides for PDF and Obfuscation components, if you want a feel for what the Guides are like.