I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break and that you’re not having to eat turkey sandwiches all this week.

I know that I’ve been really absent from blogging/podcasting lately and I apologize for the lack of updates over the last few weeks, but I’ve been completely swamped with preparations for a major meeting that I’m putting together this weekend for my (real) job, so I haven’t had time to do much else.

Anyway, there’s so much that has happened this month that I’ve been meaning to blog about, like the Web 2.0 Summit—which happened in SF from NOV 7-9^th (check out their audio and video podcasts here)—together with their popular Web 2.0 Launchpad (read more at TechCrunch, ZDNet and VentureBeat). You can find lots of summaries and wrap-ups on the Web 2.0 Summit in the blogosphere, including some interesting coverage by CNET and write-ups at Read/Write Web, GigaOm, Stowe Boyd, and Fast Company.

And, speaking of Web 2.0, I find it interesting that Intel (of all companies!) announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that they were also getting into the Web Office game, with the launch of Suite Two—“…a rich set of interconnected services that combine to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing…[including] the most trusted platforms for blogs, wikis, RSS feed reading, and RSS feed management, all under a single management interface.”

Suite Two consists of four existing applications: MovableType from SixApart, SocialText, Simplefeed and Newsgator (read more at TechCrunch).

I think what is even more revealing than the fact that it shows how easy it is these days to put together a Web Office Suite these days (this suite was actually put together by SpikeSource for Intel), I think it also shows the shift in thinking of exactly what a Web Office Suite is. No spreadsheets. No presentation tools. No typical office suite stuff. Instead, this is really a suite of Web 2.0 content consuming/generating tools. Cool (or should it be “Sweet”?).

Anyway, that’s about all the time (and thoughts) I can spare before my big meeting this weekend. Hopefully, life will get back to semi-normality after this weekend.