This past weekend Delip Andra and Alex Gault took part in the Palo Alto Barcamp — a self-organizing two day conference for technologists and startup companies, with programming supplied ad hoc by the attendees themselves and a schedule devised on the fly. There was an amazing exchange of energy and new ideas between the 1,000+ participants.

Several companies located around the same block in downtown Palo Alto — including Socialtext, IDEO, Edgeio, Searchspark and EchoSign — donated their offices as meeting spaces.

Alex gave a 5 minute presentation at DemoCamp on Saturday evening, the one pre-scheduled session at the conference. First, Alex demo’ed the widget installation process, emphasizing how easy it is to customize and install the widget onto a blog. Then he demonstrated how the widget works on a blog — dynamically presonalizing content, as he clicked on blog entries or links in the widget itself.

This neighborhood in Palo Alto is densely populated with startups. Just around the corner, Facebook will be hosting the Facebook Developer Garage on August 25, which Minekey will also attend.