The 2009 SharePoint conference wrapped up earlier today. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. However, I did try to keep up by watching all of the tweets and blog posts that were being generated by the attendees. Here is a quick list of some of the more interesting SharePoint 2010 news:

• SharePoint 2010 beta should be available in November (sign-up here)
• Project Gemini gets a product name: PowerPivot
• SharePoint 2010 will run locally for developers under Vista and Windows 7 x64
• No more 32-bit, 64bit only
• IE6 will no longer be supported
• New PowerShell CmdLets for managing SharePoint
• New Document Center template optimized to supports hundreds of thousands of documents
• Windows SharePoint Services rebranded as Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
• Enterprise Metadata – includes tagging and ratings
• Integrated support for Silverlight
• Groove reworked as SharePoint Workspace
• Improved Mobile Web experience
• Sandbox isolation for custom code
• Business Data Catalog becomes Business Connectivity Services – no longer read-only
• Improved APIs – including list access through REST, LINQ, ATOM, and JSON

You can watch some of the highlights of the conference here.