More quick jottings from the final day of the conference (and again, only a few droplets from the fire hose of information that was flowing there):

- Market researcher Mike Render says that fiber-to-the-home is growing faster in the U.S. -- at rates exceeding 100 percent per year -- than earlier forms of broadband at comparable moments in their history. Take rates (percentage of homes passed that are subscribing) are rising for providers other than Verizon, which is building FiOS faster than it can sell it. Homeowners with FTTH, as well as developers, estimate that it adds about $5,000 to the selling price of a house, and businesses are relocating in FTTH communities.

- Humanizing Technologies showed us an easy way to make gadgets (what everyone else calls widgets) for your mobile phone. Their app lets you send dynamic time, weather, stock quotes, horoscopes, or any other web-based information to your phone in about three clicks.

- VizSeek from Imaginestics, using a technology developed in Purdue University, is a video search application for manufacturers. Doodle a picture of the part you're looking for, and you can find it in any parts catalogue on the Web.