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Mom’s are the BEST, aren’t they? Celebrate your mom or commemorate your life as a mom by creating a beautiful Scrapblog layout. Mother’s Day is only a few weeks away and what a better way to celebrate than sending the Mom in your life a personalized scrapbook. We have two new delightful themes that are the perfect backdrop for all your Mother’s Day photos.

Mother’s Quilt by Scrapblog designer Jen Revoltar

Amour by Little Dreamer Design’s Michelle Coleman

It is sad to see Alex leave Scrapblog. He knows more about social media than anyone else here in Miami. Since Alex joined Scrapblog a year ago, he has become a social media professor at the University of Miami. He has also organized the only two Barcamp events in Miami (the last one had over 300 attendees). We always encouraged and supported all these extra-curricular activities. Alex’s increasing exposure in the tech-scene in Miami and elsewhere has led him to new opportunities that he has decided to pursue. As bitter as it is to see Alex leave our day-to-day, it is sweet to see a good friend and colleague move up.

Alex: We wish you the best in everything you are doing. I look forward continue collaborating with you.

Check out this video of Scrapblog! It was produced by Michael Pick of Smashcut Media and we first showed it this past Friday at the Future of Web Apps party. Do you like it? We love the effects at the beginning and have added a whole bunch of scrapblogs made by you … I think this version has over a hundred pages. We’ll make a shorter one as well and perhaps include more effects. What do you think?

Last week was a busy one for us and an exciting one for the tech community in Miami. The outstanding technology and new media conference, Future of Web Apps, or just FOWA, was held at the magnificent Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Knight Concert Hall. Yes, a tech conference in an opera house, attended by about 600 people from across the US, Europe and South America. Nice! We were also pleased to host the Official Scrapblog FOWA Party, at Nikki Beach in Miami.

We appreciate the hard work the outstanding people at Carsonified put in to this conference, and their commitment to hold it in Miami. Surely the local tech community and university students are appreciative as well.

In conjunction with FOWA, on Thursday afternoon and evening I organized an event with the help of local designers, developers and technologists Nick Dominguez, Chris Saylor, Michael Montgomery and Brian Breslin. BarCampMiami had about 250 to 300 people show up and participate. Over 30 presentations were given and 16 local companies sponsored the event. It went really smoothly and people appreciated the learning and networking opportunities, particularly with so many people from out of town. A strong interest in BarCamp is a sign of the tech community getting organized; the next BarCamp in Florida will be held in Orlando: BarCampOrlando.

We’ve made Scrapblogs of both events! (We also added a bunch of photos to Flickr).

We’re very excited to have been selected one of 100 finalists from thousands of nominees!

CNET’s Webware 100 is an yearly awards program where users vote for their favorite Web 2.0 applications. According to the site, “in the 2007 Webware 100, there were more than 480,000 votes cast.”

Scrapblog is listed in the Publishing and Photography category, please scroll halfway down the page to find us and click on “Vote”.

It’ll only take a couple of seconds … and we really, really appreciate it!