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If you are stuck on what to get your web friends for Christmas, worry no more.

We’ve been working really hard to get you guys the best speakers for Carson Workshops 2009.

Check out the awesome line up:

February
Ben Huh - I Can Has Cheezburger
Paul Boag - Headscape

March
Eric Meyer - meyerweb.com

April
Ryan Singer - 37signals

June
Tara Hunt - Citizen Agency

September
Daniel Burka - digg/Pownce

November
Dan Cederholm - SimpleBits

Titles, passes and dates will be released on December 1st (next week).

Be quick (zoom zoom) as the first 10 passes for each of the workshops are at a reduced rate :)

A little bit about Carson Workshops:

For those of you who don’t know, Carson Workshops are a one day event, held at the beautiful RIBA, in the Wren room. It is a more intimate setting where you can be taught, ask questions and meet like minded people. Refreshments and lunch are included in the price, and we always invite you guys for a bevvie or two after the workshop.

If you have any questions or enquiries please drop me a line at natasha at carsonified dot com.

Mike, Keir and Elliott have been working really hard on a complete redesign of our event sites. I’m SO excited about them so I wanted to give you a sneak preview.

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UPDATE: We have a winner!! Jakub was picked as the winner, live on Ustream.tv. Congrats!

Want to win an all-expense paid trip to any Carsonified event?

Of course you would :)

If you’d love to travel around the world, meet amazing speakers and attend fun conferences, here’s your chance. The winner of the Carsonified Golden ticket will receive …

1. A free ticket to ALL Carsonified 2009 events. This includes Future of Web Design, Future of Web Apps, Future of Mobile, Fuel and all Carson Workshops.

2. Pick one Carsonified event and we’ll fly you there and put you up in an amazing hotel, for FREE*

3. An all-access backstage pass at all 2009 Carsonified events

4. An invite to the VIP speaker dinner at one Carsonified event of your choice

Here’s how to enter

1. Write a blog post about wanting to win the Golden Ticket, linking to this post

2. Drum up 25 comments on the post (they can’t be you or spam and only one comment per person)

3. Submit the URL by October 1st at Midnight UK time

4. Watch the live draw on UStream on Thursday, October 2nd at 5pm London time

5. Party accordingly!

* Annoying legal terms: Your hotel and flight can be up to a maximum value, including taxes, of £1800. The Golden Ticket is non-transferable and cannot be re-sold or traded. It is only valid for Carsonified events that occur during 2009. We will give the winner seven days to claim their prize. Phew.

We’ve recently finalised the speaker list for our next event, Fuel Conference, and are privileged and excited to be welcoming the following folks to share their wisdom with us:

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We’re excited to announce that we are able to welcome Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) and Kevin Marks (Google) to FOWA Miami 2008.

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The Carsonified team is in central London today for the Future of Mobile, our brand new event. We’re in the BFI MAX theatre, where pioneers of the mobile web are talking to a sell-out crowd of 450 developers, designers, entrepreneurs, marketers and strategists.

Talking at 3pm will be Google’s Dave Burke - he’ll be covering Android and Google’s role in the Open Handset Alliance. It’s the most highly anticipated session of the day, and is being live blogged by Mike Butcher at TechCrunch UK.

By Elliot Jay Stocks

I’m going to be speaking at the ‘iDesign: design for life’ event next Tuesday (18th), and the organisers have given me two free tickets to offer as a competition prize. The event is part of the London Design Festival and focuses specifically on the digital world; details are here, here and here.

To enter the competition, simply leave a comment on this post on my site. That’s it! On Friday I’ll randomly pick two comments’ permalink IDs and and announce the winners on that post.

By the way, the prize includes the free ticket only (normal price £55) and no travel expenses or anything like that. For that reason, it probably only make sense for UK-based readers to apply (unless you’re feeling rich), but if you’d like to enter on behalf of a friend (for instance, you might live in the US but your friend is in the UK and able to attend), that’s absolutely fine - just leave their name in the comment.