The next few days will be packed to the gills with conferences. Oh, and "summits," which I think are conferences with an extra-large dose of self-promoting gadabouts. Start off with a few cocktail hours to practice your networking before the big events later this week.

• Dealmaker Media's Business of APIs conference debuts today at 1 p.m. at the San Francisco City Club. Cocktail reception begins at 6. [APIConference.com]
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• blogger Niall Kennedy is hosting a conference on widgets at UCSF's Mission Bay campus. Netvibes is hosting a cocktail reception at 6:30 in the banquet room. [Widget Summit]
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• Hey, it's Blog Action Day! We don't know what that means either. [Blog Action Day]

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