Adaptive Path’s Lane Becker gave the Wednesday introduction, for keynote speaker Jeff Veen.

Becker joked that he was the only guy from Adaptive Path giving an introduction that hadn’t coined a tech buzzword: Jesse James Garrett minted “AJAX” and Peter Merholz tabbed “blog.” He then went on to say he’s at least partially responsible for “blog”: before putting it on his then-weblog, Peter allegedly used the term to try to pick up a chick at the bar while Lane was buying the drinks, so Lane owns at least a little bit of the term.

Becker noted Veen was responsible for perhaps the greatest of all Web 2.0 trends: he was the first to use rounded corners when he designed Blogger. He also said Veen was in the room when someone invented banner ads. (Depending on your views of the web, he’s either famous for those two things or infamous because of them :)).

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