Today marks the beginning of the Web 2.0 Expo, which is a companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit.

Web 2.0 Expo is a global annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo is co-presented by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media.

The following sources can be used to get a mediated experience of the Web 2.0 Expo:

• Breaking NEWS and “official” coverage here: NEWS & Coverage
• LIVE Video Stream on QIK here: QIK Stream
• Back-channel chatter can be observed here: Twitter-W2E