TED 2008 starts today in Monterey and continues through Saturday, in case you were wondering where your CEO was. People from Foresite Systems are talking in Hotel Valencia today about how you can make your company's products more compliant with environmental standards. Tonight, Google is having one of its Geo Developer events on creating custom maps, with developer John Coryat at the helm. "Mozilla/XULRunner-loving developers" are meeting up at Neue Songbird Nest for a little bit of business, but mostly party. Christine Comaford-Lynch is leading a sold-out talk over at the Schwab Building in San Francisco. The not-so-miserable millionaire and Chuck Schwab will be donating proceeds to the Kashin-Beck Disease Foundation, that provides medical humanitarian assistance to Tibetans. If you crash, don't be a cheapskate: donate.