As I perused the links today, I noticed a startling trend. Nearly every major player in today’s links will be coming to the Web 2 Summit in November this year. Forgive me, I’ve got the conference on the brain, as we are about to announce the lineup (early next week). To the links…

Waiting For Superman (A VC) The filmmaker will be at Web 2 Summit this year.

Net Neutrality: A New Flash Point for Foes of Big Government (Time) The Chair of the FCC will be at Web 2 Summit this year as well. Also see Google, Verizon and the FCC: Inside the War Over the Internet’s Future (DailyFinance)

Article: The Thin Line Between Liking a Brand and Liking Its Social Marketing (eMarketer) The CEO of Facebook is coming too…

Google Now Serving 1 Billion Users Each Week (TC) and Google Instant: The Headlines and Quick Takes (Searchblog) And the CEO of Google will also be at Web 2 this year.

RIM Patents “Adaptive” Billboards for Delivering Ads Based on Traffic (RWW) Yep, the CEO of RIM is coming….

Like It or Not, Twitter Has Become a News Platform (GigaOm) The CEO of Twitter…well, you get the picture. I’ll stop. For now.

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