As the dates of PubCon draw closer anticipation is building for a week of PubCon networking with and learning from some of the industry's biggest names in sunny Las Vegas.
Some of the key players shaping the future of the Web and in particular social media have come to PubCon over the past few years to tell their stories and share their visions with our attendees, including digital entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki, named as one of the Web's top celebrities by Forbes magazine, author and The New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell, former MySpace CEO Richard Rosenblatt of DemandMedia -- who has sold over $1.3 billion of Internet media companies -- and Google lead quality control engineer Matt Cutts, who is a frequent PubCon attendee and three-time keynote speaker at our conference, to name just a few.
"PubCon was the first conference where Twitter played a huge roll." - Amanda Stewart
PubCon Keynotes
We're bringing seven social media leaders to present fresh keynote addresses at the Las Vegas Convention Center in November, including leading online shoe retailer Zappos visionary chief executive officer Tony Hsieh, Bob Brisco, chief executive for Internet Brands, the parent company of Jelsoft Enterprises Limited, maker of the market-leading message forum software vBulletin, and a unique panel of five social media experts from the largest hotel and casinos in the world.
Having Tony Hsieh (pronounced "shay") present a keynote speech at PubCon is a natural fit for our conference, with his more than 1.4 million followers on Twitter and a fresh and inspiring approach to social media marketing and customer service sure to both educate and inspire.
As the new social Web brings ever more user content to the forefront through communities such as message forums, Brisco and his vision as the leader of vBulletin will be a great keynote addition to this year's Las Vegas PubCon.
"I'm so impressed with the quality of the content by PubCon speakers. This is a great value conference." - Lisa Riolo
MGM Grand, Luxor, Hilton and Planet Hollywood Marketers Keynote PubCon
In our groundbreaking keynote panel, business marketing leaders from the Luxor resort hotel and casino, the MGM Grand hotel and casino, the Las Vegas Hilton, and Planet Hollywood resort and casino will come together to examine how their marketing departments successfully use social media.
This unique keynote speaker session will offer a rare glimpse into how some of the largest hotels and casinos in the world use social media.
All of our keynote speakers will bring their inspiring and groundbreaking social media insight to our Las Vegas PubCon.
"PubCon is the Mecca of all search engine marketing events world wide. After being in the SEM field for a while you begin to expect a little repetitive information when attending SEM conferences. But I have to say that PubCon was the best conference I've ever been to." - Darwin Hall
PubCon Twitter Track
"PubCon is going to be so well-documented on Twitter," Google's Cutts said at our PubCon South event in Austin, Texas earlier this year. His prediction came true as discussion about PubCon using the #PubCon hash tag became Twitter's most popular term for a period during the conference, and conference-goers enjoyed Tweeting questions to speakers and fellow audience members during many sessions.
Our Austin event was so successful that we sold out the conference center.
In Las Vegas at PubCon on November 10 - 13 Twitter and other social media services will play a larger role than ever.
All aspects of successfully using Twitter will be covered by marketing, social media, search and programming experts, with an entire PubCon Twitter Track of sessions including "Capitalizing on Twitter and the Microblogging Revolution," "Experts on PR and Twitter," and a unique offering called "Let's Tweet" that promises to take Twitter as an educational conference tool to new heights.PubCon Product Launches And Vision
PubCon often serves as a launching ground for major new products and services from some of the largest Internet firms, such as Google's PubCon launch of its Friend Connect API initiative in March.
"Planning on Vegas - haven't missed a U.S.-based PubCon since Boston 2003." - Adam Jewell
We have an extraordinarily diverse pool of talent helping to guide our conferences, led by the members of our PubCon Advisory Board that includes:
Guy Kawasaki
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Tim Mayer
Vice President of Product Management, Yahoo! Search
Justin Osmer
Senior Product Manager, Bing, Microsoft Corporation
Melanie Mitchell
SVP of Search Strategy, Digitas
Adam Lasnik
Search Evangelist, Google
Gordon Hotchkiss
President, Enquiro Search Solutions
Rick Schwartz
Rick Schwartz, CEO Traffic Conference
Greg Boser
President, WebGuerrilla LLC
Heather Lloyd Martin
President and CEO, SuccessWorks
George Roberts
President and CEO, Interjuncture.com
Jim Stobb
CEO, Position Tech
Joe Laratro
President, Tandem Interactive
Ted Ulle
Partner, The MEWS Group
Jake Baillie
Managing Director, STN Labs
Todd Friesen
Vice President of Search, Position Technologies
Jim Boykin
CEO, We Build Pages
Thomas Ball
Venture Partner, Austin Ventures
Chris Tolles
CEO, Topix
Enrich Your PubCon Adventure
If you'd like to come to PubCon but are looking for ways to make it happen at your company, we have several tips available that show both the educational and monetary value of PubCon. In his "Top Tips to Get Your Boss to Send You to a Conference" PubCon founder Brett Tabke took a light-hearted look at why it is worthwhile to make an effort to attend our conference.
PubCon has always been a premium social media and search conference at an affordable price, and Tabke explained how we manage to do it in his "Keeping Conferences Affordable and Fun" piece.
If you're already registered for PubCon and planning how to best organize your time during the busy November week next month, have a look at "Conference Survivor - Sports and Games: (PubCon fun)," a look at some of the creative ways you can get more from the PubCon experience.
If you'd like to know what PubCon holds in store, look no further than our PubCon History Archives, and check out our PubCon photo-retrospective piece called "You Never Know Who You'll Run Into At PubCon."
"I'll be at PubCon this November. These PubCon photos bring back a lot of good memories." - Google's Matt Cutts
PubCon Banners And Affiliate Program
We share your enthusiasm for the upcoming PubCon in Las Vegas, and have provided a variety of PubCon Web banner images available to include on your Web site, social media pages or blogs. In August we launched our new PubCon Rewards Affiliate Program designed to thank our partners who help promote PubCon.
Whether you are a first time attendee wondering what to expect at your first PubCon or a seasoned veteran of a decade of PubCon events, for a glimpse inside what makes a good presentation -- the kind we work hard to bring you -- have a look at Tabke's "PubCon Street Tips: Giving a Kick Ass Presentation," a valuable guide for speakers, potential speakers and attendees alike.
"I send one or two people to every major conference. I send my entire team to PubCon" - Gillian Muessig, SEOmoz
Build Your Own Itinerary And Take PubCon's $20,000 Poker Challenge
To help you pick from so many tracks comprising nearly 100 session choices we encourage you to take advantage of our online "Build Your Show Itinerary" feature, which Tabke explains in detail in his "PubCon Conference Itinerary Builder" piece.
Casinos play a big part in most peoples' visits to Las Vegas, and PubCon has offered charity casino events at previous shows raising thousands of dollars for charities such as the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
This year we're offering a $20,000 PubCon Poker Challenge that will be held at the Las Vegas Hilton, conveniently located directly adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Las Vegas Hilton will offer complimentary tournament entries to the Poker Challenge for 40 lucky poker players. Prize money in the Poker Challenge will be $20,000 in Las Vegas Hilton hotel and casino promotional poker chips, spendable at the Hilton Casino.
We feel that it's important for PubCon attendees to gain valuable "take-aways," and that's why we provide every full conference pass holder with a CD containing the conference presentation files, mailed out shortly after the conclusion of PubCon, as a way to say "thank you" and to help you keep implementing the plans and insight presented in our sessions throughout the year and long into the future.
PubCon Event Scene Heating Up
The party scene for PubCon Las Vegas is beginning to heat up, and you can expect several exciting announcements for after-hours industry-sponsored and private networking parties and events as PubCon draws nearer.
We've already announced our "PreCon PubCon Kickoff Networking Blast," a pre-show networking event to be held on Monday, November 9, 2009 at the Las Vegas Convention Center featuring many of our speakers, sponsors, and lead exhibitors gathered together for this kickoff event, the first one we've had after several years absence.
Taking place the day before PubCon, our kickoff networking event offers a unique way to gather with friends and colleagues before the conference begins.
We've been building momentum throughout a successful 2009 that kicked off with our first-ever Texas event in March, and four months later, when many search and social media industry professionals in the United States were celebrating Independence Day, London was abuzz as the city hosted a PubCon networking event in England.
"PubCon Austin was great. Incredible content, speakers and networking. If you were not there, you missed out." - Scott Polk
New Features And Events In Store At PubCon
It's been a whirlwind of activity as we've had overwhelming response from nearly 500 top speakers hoping to present at one of our sessions and some of the largest sign up weeks in conference history. With our largest set of session proposals ever we are excited about what is on tap for the thousands of people we expect to see at PubCon in November.
We'll also be bringing PubCon back to the southern U.S., with our spring 2010 PubCon South multi-track conference that will take place in Dallas Texas on April 13 - 15, 2010.
We've added many new events and lined up new promotions for our upcoming PubCon, including our PubCon Training Program and Workshops, a one day two-topic slate of intensive educational training programs that will take place on Monday, November 9, the day before the full conference officially begins, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with two simultaneous tracks of in-depth sessions led by some of the industry's most respected search professionals.
Monday will be the biggest pre-show day ever at PubCon, with our new professional search training program followed by our evening Kickoff Networking Blast pre-show event.
"Meeting folks in person is the best part of PubCon!" - Roger Dooley
PubCon Networking Lunch
Another entirely new event at this year's Las Vegas conference will be a PubCon Networking Lunch Program hosted by a variety of top speakers leading conversations about more than 20 social media and Internet marketing subjects, giving you the opportunity to get close to some of PubCon's top speakers and spend time discussing the industry topics they know the best, all in a relaxed shared environment around a lunch table.
In September we teamed up with Seattle-based Internet marketing and search engine optimization company SEOmoz on a special cross-promotional PubCon registration and SEOmoz PRO membership rate, a deal that quickly sold out thanks to all of you who recognized and took advantage of a fantastic opportunity.
Wynn, Other Travel Promotions Still Available
Our special PubCon room block at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel also sold out, however we have been able to secure a second block of luxury accommodations at the Wynn, the only casino resort in the world to receive the Mobil 5 Star, the AAA 5 Diamond, and the Michelin 5 Red ratings.
The Wynn Las Vegas Hotel still has very special PubCon pricing of only $129 a night on a limited number of opulent suites, conveniently located across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center where PubCon 2009 will take place, and offer that comes in addition to our existing choice of Treasure Island as a PubCon hotel, and offers attendees another exciting luxury hotel option.
"Thank you PubCon for terrific times! See ya'll in Vegas November 2009." - @chiropractic
We've arranged PubCon travel discounts with airlines, hotels, Las Vegas monorail and car rental companies in order to make your PubCon experience more economical and convenient.
Our "Fly JetBlue to PubCon and Save" promotion gives conference attendees a five percent discount from JetBlue's lowest available fare when you book your PubCon Las Vegas 2009 flight online.
Our "Dollar Rent a Car promotion" gives PubCon attendees discount rates for those who prefer driving in Las Vegas, available up until the conference begins.
Whether this will be your first visit to Las Vegas or your one-hundredth, our "Planes, Trains and Limos" tips for getting around Las Vegas during PubCon will help you spend as little time and money as possible on transportation so that you can spend more time at the show.
PubCon Sponsors And Exhibitors
As a Gold Sponsor at PubCon, Microsoft Bing continues a long and successful relationship with our conferences, and will have representatives speaking on several session panels. Microsoft Bing will also be an exhibitor at PubCon.
Among others joining Microsoft Bing in sponsoring PubCon are Raven SEO Tools and Market Health.
"Just counted 29 pages of notes from PubCon. what an amazing event. Thank you!" - Ricci Neer
New PubCon Video Blog
Another new feature we've added is the PubCon Video Blog, showcasing past, present and potential future PubCon speakers in interviews by WebmasterWorld video content producer Vanessa Zamora and PubCon founder Brett Tabke.
Watch PubCon-produced video interviews with many of the "Who's Who" of top search and social media marketers, webmasters and technology innovators, and learn as they speak on a wide range of the Internet-related subjects that are the trademark of PubCon conferences, including many from our previous conferences.
We've continued to have tremendous response to our upcoming PubCon conference in Las Vegas, which is shaping up to be the biggest and best conference in our ten year history.
Keep up with the latest news about PubCon by visiting the PubCon LinkedIn social networking site group, the PubCon Facebook group, the PubCon Flickr photo stream group, and our PubCon Twitter feed.
Some of the key players shaping the future of the Web and in particular social media have come to PubCon over the past few years to tell their stories and share their visions with our attendees, including digital entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki, named as one of the Web's top celebrities by Forbes magazine, author and The New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell, former MySpace CEO Richard Rosenblatt of DemandMedia -- who has sold over $1.3 billion of Internet media companies -- and Google lead quality control engineer Matt Cutts, who is a frequent PubCon attendee and three-time keynote speaker at our conference, to name just a few.
"PubCon was the first conference where Twitter played a huge roll." - Amanda Stewart
PubCon Keynotes
We're bringing seven social media leaders to present fresh keynote addresses at the Las Vegas Convention Center in November, including leading online shoe retailer Zappos visionary chief executive officer Tony Hsieh, Bob Brisco, chief executive for Internet Brands, the parent company of Jelsoft Enterprises Limited, maker of the market-leading message forum software vBulletin, and a unique panel of five social media experts from the largest hotel and casinos in the world.
Having Tony Hsieh (pronounced "shay") present a keynote speech at PubCon is a natural fit for our conference, with his more than 1.4 million followers on Twitter and a fresh and inspiring approach to social media marketing and customer service sure to both educate and inspire.
As the new social Web brings ever more user content to the forefront through communities such as message forums, Brisco and his vision as the leader of vBulletin will be a great keynote addition to this year's Las Vegas PubCon.
"I'm so impressed with the quality of the content by PubCon speakers. This is a great value conference." - Lisa Riolo
MGM Grand, Luxor, Hilton and Planet Hollywood Marketers Keynote PubCon
In our groundbreaking keynote panel, business marketing leaders from the Luxor resort hotel and casino, the MGM Grand hotel and casino, the Las Vegas Hilton, and Planet Hollywood resort and casino will come together to examine how their marketing departments successfully use social media.
This unique keynote speaker session will offer a rare glimpse into how some of the largest hotels and casinos in the world use social media.
All of our keynote speakers will bring their inspiring and groundbreaking social media insight to our Las Vegas PubCon.
"PubCon is the Mecca of all search engine marketing events world wide. After being in the SEM field for a while you begin to expect a little repetitive information when attending SEM conferences. But I have to say that PubCon was the best conference I've ever been to." - Darwin Hall
PubCon Twitter Track
"PubCon is going to be so well-documented on Twitter," Google's Cutts said at our PubCon South event in Austin, Texas earlier this year. His prediction came true as discussion about PubCon using the #PubCon hash tag became Twitter's most popular term for a period during the conference, and conference-goers enjoyed Tweeting questions to speakers and fellow audience members during many sessions.
Our Austin event was so successful that we sold out the conference center.
In Las Vegas at PubCon on November 10 - 13 Twitter and other social media services will play a larger role than ever.
All aspects of successfully using Twitter will be covered by marketing, social media, search and programming experts, with an entire PubCon Twitter Track of sessions including "Capitalizing on Twitter and the Microblogging Revolution," "Experts on PR and Twitter," and a unique offering called "Let's Tweet" that promises to take Twitter as an educational conference tool to new heights.PubCon Product Launches And Vision
PubCon often serves as a launching ground for major new products and services from some of the largest Internet firms, such as Google's PubCon launch of its Friend Connect API initiative in March.
"Planning on Vegas - haven't missed a U.S.-based PubCon since Boston 2003." - Adam Jewell
We have an extraordinarily diverse pool of talent helping to guide our conferences, led by the members of our PubCon Advisory Board that includes:
Guy Kawasaki
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Tim Mayer
Vice President of Product Management, Yahoo! Search
Justin Osmer
Senior Product Manager, Bing, Microsoft Corporation
Melanie Mitchell
SVP of Search Strategy, Digitas
Adam Lasnik
Search Evangelist, Google
Gordon Hotchkiss
President, Enquiro Search Solutions
Rick Schwartz
Rick Schwartz, CEO Traffic Conference
Greg Boser
President, WebGuerrilla LLC
Heather Lloyd Martin
President and CEO, SuccessWorks
George Roberts
President and CEO, Interjuncture.com
Jim Stobb
CEO, Position Tech
Joe Laratro
President, Tandem Interactive
Ted Ulle
Partner, The MEWS Group
Jake Baillie
Managing Director, STN Labs
Todd Friesen
Vice President of Search, Position Technologies
Jim Boykin
CEO, We Build Pages
Thomas Ball
Venture Partner, Austin Ventures
Chris Tolles
CEO, Topix
Enrich Your PubCon Adventure
If you'd like to come to PubCon but are looking for ways to make it happen at your company, we have several tips available that show both the educational and monetary value of PubCon. In his "Top Tips to Get Your Boss to Send You to a Conference" PubCon founder Brett Tabke took a light-hearted look at why it is worthwhile to make an effort to attend our conference.
PubCon has always been a premium social media and search conference at an affordable price, and Tabke explained how we manage to do it in his "Keeping Conferences Affordable and Fun" piece.
If you're already registered for PubCon and planning how to best organize your time during the busy November week next month, have a look at "Conference Survivor - Sports and Games: (PubCon fun)," a look at some of the creative ways you can get more from the PubCon experience.
If you'd like to know what PubCon holds in store, look no further than our PubCon History Archives, and check out our PubCon photo-retrospective piece called "You Never Know Who You'll Run Into At PubCon."
"I'll be at PubCon this November. These PubCon photos bring back a lot of good memories." - Google's Matt Cutts
PubCon Banners And Affiliate Program
We share your enthusiasm for the upcoming PubCon in Las Vegas, and have provided a variety of PubCon Web banner images available to include on your Web site, social media pages or blogs. In August we launched our new PubCon Rewards Affiliate Program designed to thank our partners who help promote PubCon.
Whether you are a first time attendee wondering what to expect at your first PubCon or a seasoned veteran of a decade of PubCon events, for a glimpse inside what makes a good presentation -- the kind we work hard to bring you -- have a look at Tabke's "PubCon Street Tips: Giving a Kick Ass Presentation," a valuable guide for speakers, potential speakers and attendees alike.
"I send one or two people to every major conference. I send my entire team to PubCon" - Gillian Muessig, SEOmoz
Build Your Own Itinerary And Take PubCon's $20,000 Poker Challenge
To help you pick from so many tracks comprising nearly 100 session choices we encourage you to take advantage of our online "Build Your Show Itinerary" feature, which Tabke explains in detail in his "PubCon Conference Itinerary Builder" piece.
Casinos play a big part in most peoples' visits to Las Vegas, and PubCon has offered charity casino events at previous shows raising thousands of dollars for charities such as the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
This year we're offering a $20,000 PubCon Poker Challenge that will be held at the Las Vegas Hilton, conveniently located directly adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Las Vegas Hilton will offer complimentary tournament entries to the Poker Challenge for 40 lucky poker players. Prize money in the Poker Challenge will be $20,000 in Las Vegas Hilton hotel and casino promotional poker chips, spendable at the Hilton Casino.
We feel that it's important for PubCon attendees to gain valuable "take-aways," and that's why we provide every full conference pass holder with a CD containing the conference presentation files, mailed out shortly after the conclusion of PubCon, as a way to say "thank you" and to help you keep implementing the plans and insight presented in our sessions throughout the year and long into the future.
PubCon Event Scene Heating Up
The party scene for PubCon Las Vegas is beginning to heat up, and you can expect several exciting announcements for after-hours industry-sponsored and private networking parties and events as PubCon draws nearer.
We've already announced our "PreCon PubCon Kickoff Networking Blast," a pre-show networking event to be held on Monday, November 9, 2009 at the Las Vegas Convention Center featuring many of our speakers, sponsors, and lead exhibitors gathered together for this kickoff event, the first one we've had after several years absence.
Taking place the day before PubCon, our kickoff networking event offers a unique way to gather with friends and colleagues before the conference begins.
We've been building momentum throughout a successful 2009 that kicked off with our first-ever Texas event in March, and four months later, when many search and social media industry professionals in the United States were celebrating Independence Day, London was abuzz as the city hosted a PubCon networking event in England.
"PubCon Austin was great. Incredible content, speakers and networking. If you were not there, you missed out." - Scott Polk
New Features And Events In Store At PubCon
It's been a whirlwind of activity as we've had overwhelming response from nearly 500 top speakers hoping to present at one of our sessions and some of the largest sign up weeks in conference history. With our largest set of session proposals ever we are excited about what is on tap for the thousands of people we expect to see at PubCon in November.
We'll also be bringing PubCon back to the southern U.S., with our spring 2010 PubCon South multi-track conference that will take place in Dallas Texas on April 13 - 15, 2010.
We've added many new events and lined up new promotions for our upcoming PubCon, including our PubCon Training Program and Workshops, a one day two-topic slate of intensive educational training programs that will take place on Monday, November 9, the day before the full conference officially begins, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with two simultaneous tracks of in-depth sessions led by some of the industry's most respected search professionals.
Monday will be the biggest pre-show day ever at PubCon, with our new professional search training program followed by our evening Kickoff Networking Blast pre-show event.
"Meeting folks in person is the best part of PubCon!" - Roger Dooley
PubCon Networking Lunch
Another entirely new event at this year's Las Vegas conference will be a PubCon Networking Lunch Program hosted by a variety of top speakers leading conversations about more than 20 social media and Internet marketing subjects, giving you the opportunity to get close to some of PubCon's top speakers and spend time discussing the industry topics they know the best, all in a relaxed shared environment around a lunch table.
In September we teamed up with Seattle-based Internet marketing and search engine optimization company SEOmoz on a special cross-promotional PubCon registration and SEOmoz PRO membership rate, a deal that quickly sold out thanks to all of you who recognized and took advantage of a fantastic opportunity.
Wynn, Other Travel Promotions Still Available
Our special PubCon room block at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel also sold out, however we have been able to secure a second block of luxury accommodations at the Wynn, the only casino resort in the world to receive the Mobil 5 Star, the AAA 5 Diamond, and the Michelin 5 Red ratings.
The Wynn Las Vegas Hotel still has very special PubCon pricing of only $129 a night on a limited number of opulent suites, conveniently located across the street from the Las Vegas Convention Center where PubCon 2009 will take place, and offer that comes in addition to our existing choice of Treasure Island as a PubCon hotel, and offers attendees another exciting luxury hotel option.
"Thank you PubCon for terrific times! See ya'll in Vegas November 2009." - @chiropractic
We've arranged PubCon travel discounts with airlines, hotels, Las Vegas monorail and car rental companies in order to make your PubCon experience more economical and convenient.
Our "Fly JetBlue to PubCon and Save" promotion gives conference attendees a five percent discount from JetBlue's lowest available fare when you book your PubCon Las Vegas 2009 flight online.
Our "Dollar Rent a Car promotion" gives PubCon attendees discount rates for those who prefer driving in Las Vegas, available up until the conference begins.
Whether this will be your first visit to Las Vegas or your one-hundredth, our "Planes, Trains and Limos" tips for getting around Las Vegas during PubCon will help you spend as little time and money as possible on transportation so that you can spend more time at the show.
PubCon Sponsors And Exhibitors
As a Gold Sponsor at PubCon, Microsoft Bing continues a long and successful relationship with our conferences, and will have representatives speaking on several session panels. Microsoft Bing will also be an exhibitor at PubCon.
Among others joining Microsoft Bing in sponsoring PubCon are Raven SEO Tools and Market Health.
"Just counted 29 pages of notes from PubCon. what an amazing event. Thank you!" - Ricci Neer
New PubCon Video Blog
Another new feature we've added is the PubCon Video Blog, showcasing past, present and potential future PubCon speakers in interviews by WebmasterWorld video content producer Vanessa Zamora and PubCon founder Brett Tabke.
Watch PubCon-produced video interviews with many of the "Who's Who" of top search and social media marketers, webmasters and technology innovators, and learn as they speak on a wide range of the Internet-related subjects that are the trademark of PubCon conferences, including many from our previous conferences.
We've continued to have tremendous response to our upcoming PubCon conference in Las Vegas, which is shaping up to be the biggest and best conference in our ten year history.
Keep up with the latest news about PubCon by visiting the PubCon LinkedIn social networking site group, the PubCon Facebook group, the PubCon Flickr photo stream group, and our PubCon Twitter feed.
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