Here is the Opening Prosper Days 2008 Keynote delivered by Prosper CEO Chris Larsen.  All of the videos can be found at Prosper Days 2008 Videos.

Prosper Days 2008 is right around the corner (Monday and Tuesday, February 25-26, 2008).  It is being held at The Parc 55 Hotel, 55 Cyril Magin Street, in beautiful San Francisco. To register please visit the website Prosper Days.

The keynote speaker will be Steven Dubner the co-author of Freakonomics the book and the blog.  He is an enthralling author and speaker, exploring such topics as how crime rate reduction is linked to the legalization of abortion and the relationship between cheating on standardized tests and sumo wrestling.

The keynote address will be given by Prosper CEO Chris Larsen.  For over a decade Chris Larsen has focused on using the Internet to make consumer lending more efficient, fair, honest, open, and trustworthy.

There will be plenty of opportunity for networking with other Prosper members in between such entertaining and informational topics as the High ROI Lender Panel, Collections Practices, Leveraging Social Capital, Blogger Panel, Pricing Fundamentals: Earning a Risk Adjusted Return, API Uses and Pitfalls, and Managing Large Portfolios.

Don’t forget to register at the Prosper Days Website.

Here is last year’s keynote by Prosper CEO Chris Larsen.

Prosper Days is right around the corner.  Steven Dubner of Freakonomics is the keynote speaker.  It will be 1.5 days of fun and p2p lending education in beautiful San Francisco, CA.  Join the fun sign up for Prosper Days today: register now.  Bloggers get in for free.

From around the Prosper and Personal Finance blogosphere:

RateLadder wrote about his Prosper Taxes.

The Digerati Life tells of Bad Ways To Use Credit: A List of 21 Credit Card Mistakes

Freakonomics asks Why Aren’t There More Old Criminals?

Lazy Man and money explores Celebrities and Money: Sarah Michelle Gellar

Blogging Away Debt gives a 2 year update on her progress in I Have Been Blogging Away Debt Two Years (congratulations!)

Moorea Malatt at Queer Cents explores Femme Economics: Save Those Shoes!

GenX Finance on Redefining Risk: Your Investments Aren’t as Risky as You Think

Melissa Eastlake at Queer Cents tells us about A Day in Money

brip blap went back in time to visit Cro-Magnon man in an interview with Ur

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006.  He has a passion for p2p lending.  He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.

Prosper Days is right around the corner the — excitement is building. Two intriguing events on the agenda are Leveraging Social Capital in P2P Lending and Investing moderated by Professor Haim Mendelson of Stanford Business School and a blogger panel entitled P2P Lending 2.0 Trends and Insights moderated by Jim Breyer of Accel Partners.

Leveraging Social Capital in P2P Lending and Investing

Professor Mendelson is the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management. He is an electronic commerce and financial services expert.  In addition, he is the originator of the “Organizational IQ” concept, which quantifies an organization’s ability to use information to make quick and effective decisions. Among the panelists is Marilyn Paguirigan the group leader of Malama Ohana and Michele de Boer the Director of Product Development at Zecco.

P2P Lending 2.0 Trends and Insights

Jim Breyer is responsible for over 25 of Accel Partners’ investments, including such household names as Facebook, Macromedia, Walmart.com, RealNetworks, and of course Prosper. The blogger panelists include Jim Bruene publisher of the Online Banking Report and the blogger behind Net Banker. In addition, the panel includes social networking and media expert Dave McClure and the blogger behind Master of 500 Hats. Also on the panel, is Kevin Gillett the blogger behind Rate Ladder and the editor-in-chief of the Prosper Blog. Rounding out the panel is Jorge Sierra a financial analyst, the blogger behind Wealth Boy, and the creator of a many highly used Google Gadget including his most popular: Web Definitions.

Register For Prosper Days

It is going to be a great 1.5 days of fun and education in beautiful San Francisco… To register please visit the Prosper Days website. BTW - Bloggers can attend for free.