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PC Forum, the annual executive technology business conference produced by Release 1.0 and a property of CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET), announced today the addition of two roundtable sessions to the event agenda that are generating considerable buzz among the circle of critical thinkers and investors registered to attend. This year's PC Forum takes place March 12 to 14 at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. Registration information is available at http://pcforum2006.com. The first session, "Me Media -- Creating, Tagging, Finding, Sharing," will focus on the proliferation of Internet companies that let individuals create, store, and share blogs, photos, videos, music and more. The discussion among participants, many of them start-ups in this field, will define differences among the players and distinguish passing fads from lasting businesses. Participants will consider, among other things, how to foster community, the social impact of online communities, and alternative business models. Creators, distributors, taggers, bloggers, hosting services, attention collectors and attention purveyors, advocates, skeptics, and users will all join the discussion. The second session, "Trust, Reputation and Identity," will let participants examine the interacting concepts of security, reputation, identity, and trust. For example, if authorities aren't in charge, how can we provide tools and encourage individuals to protect themselves without making them paranoid? The session will include developers and advocates with a variety of tools and services that use distributed knowledge and local technology to help increase trust and mitigate risks. Participants will include both established vendors (Microsoft and VeriSign) and newer players such as TRUSTe and Karmasphere. Each of these discussions is a natural extension of PC Forum 2006's theme Erosion of Power: Users in Charge. Alongside a distinguished list of speakers and presenters, attendees will be examining the subtle but pervasive shift in control that is occurring on the Web and learning how those who are embracing it can build successful businesses. "These two sessions are the part of PC Forum where the users really take charge," said Esther Dyson, host of PC Forum and editor of Release 1.0. "Our general sessions get active audience participation, but in our breakout sessions there is no audience. The breakouts this year are devoted to the edgiest areas -- content and identity -- where users really understand why they want to take charge, and want better tools and services for doing so. Many of our attendees are active developers as well as users of such tools -- but they have been so busy working they haven't had the chance to meet or check out each other's work." In addition to these roundtable sessions, the three-day event will include challenging, thoughtful, and powerfully interactive presentations and discussions that are the hallmarks of PC Forum. Speakers include Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, Scott Cook, Chairman, Executive Committee and Co-founder of Intuit, Omid Kordestani, Senior VP, Global Sales and Business Development at Google, Pierre Omidyar, Co-founder and CEO of Omidyar Network, Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO of Linden Lab and Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook. For more information on PC Forum 2006, contact Daphne Kis, Executive Producer, at 212-924-8800 or via email at daphne@release1-0.com. About Release 1.0 Release 1.0, a property of CNET Networks, Inc., since 2004, is led by Esther Dyson, Release 1.0's editor and an influential thought leader on emerging technologies and markets. 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