Oh yeah and we all got glowing things. I thought it looked like a slide of germs, hehehe. Anyway, this keynote speech was like some sort of religious cult. People were screaming and crying and virtually fainting in the aisles when the ebay CEO (a lovely lady called Meg Whitman) came out. It seems that in the US, ebay has changed so many people's lives - there were heaps of disabled people who have been able to now make a living. There were also the most amount of deaf people I have ever seen in one place and just about all the seminars had a signer-person. Even the US Postmaster General was a 'surprise special guest' which caused more commotion...of course, with ebay being so big, the postal system LOVES it and wants to do whatever it can. So they were outlining all their new strategies - the poor guy could not ever finish a sentence, as after each mini-point he made, the crowd would go wild, then he would have to finish the point which made even more craziness...and so it went on. A quick 3 minute speech turned into a 10+ minute cheering match (we were getting bored and overwhelmed by then). We couldn't get over how over the top everything was!