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Dave Sifry (CEO Technorati) made this picture when I was in Munich at DLD. The cool thing is the reflection in the water. You might have noticed that it is pretty cool (or shall I say 2.0) to use reflection in logos and ads nowadays.
So this is my own PDL2.0 photo :)
Thanks Dave for sending the pic.
For the Amsterdam Open Coffee Meetup 17 people signed up, that is a pretty nice achievement. IN London, the OpenCoffee meeting 75 people gathered in the Starbucks at Regent street.
Its popularity is huge. See this article in The Guardian!
Victor Keegan: This time, the startup boom is no bubble | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
Yesterday we introduced The Next Web Awards.
Have you ever heard of an Award show where companies, services and people got an Award for something they haven’t done yet?
The Next Web Awards is the first Award ceremony that will actually do that :) Isn’t that cool! From the blogrelease:
The Award ceremony will take place after The Next Web Conference on June 1st during the grand party. The Red Carpet, limos, The Next Web Award Tech Schwag Bag, industry icons, you name it…. even Ashton Kusher might show up..
The Next Web Awards is a spin-off of The Next Web Conference.
The concept for the Awards consists of two rounds: The nomination round and the voting round. During the nomination round the public can suggest their favorite service or person in one of the categories. By April 15th, the jury will have selected the nominees out of all suggestions given by the public, and as of that moment the world can vote for its favorites.
Awards can be won in the following categories:
- Entertainment (Let me entertain you!)
- Social (You and me)
- Search (Find it!)
- Disruptors (Give me your share, now!)
- Web Celeb (Who’s the (wo)man!)
- Beta & Stealth (Rookie of the year)
- Populizr (Show me the visitors)
- Company (One company, to rule them all..)
As mentioned above the Awards will honor services / companies / people based on future accomplishments. Who will be the new Steve Jobs? Which company can change the way we do business, will create the new standard, disrupt business sectors? What service or product will change the Web forever?
Why don’t you tell us! Suggest your favorite services and help them become invincible.
Today I had an interview with Sebastien Borget about Web2.0 Fleck, entrepreneurship, The Next Web. Well read for yourself.
Last year Boris, Arjen and I had an idea to bring web entrepreneurs together in an informal way. Just to meet up with like minded people, share some thoughts, drink a beer, have a chat on what’s going on in the scene, etc.
But as we have more ideas in one week, this idea just didn’t make it.
Last week Saul Klein of Index Ventures wrote a very inspiring blogpost about ” Y Europe can seed growth of its new stars“. In short it said; hey, Silicon valley may be great, but Europe has also talent, ideas, capital, mass and infrastructure to build some very cool companies that can compete with Bay area companies.
This post triggered a wave of enthusiasm around European tech entrepreneurs.
Saul came up with the idea to organize a weekly get together in a Starbucks in Regent street. he calls it OpenCoffee. A meetup where entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bloggers, and other web savvies meet up with one another. Every Thursday of the week. Last week, the first OpenCoffee was held in London, 75 web savvies attended (you could say that that is a major success).
I believe in getting together with interesting and like minded people. It can be inspiring, you might learn something, but at least you’ll have fun and get connected with people in the industry. Also I believe that Amsterdam has a lot of talented people with brilliant ideas. It is time to show of what Europe and Amsterdam has. This is why I like to initiate an OpenCoffee Meetup in Amsterdam. I chatted with Saul for three seconds and he was very enthusiastic about the idea.
So, the first OpenCoffee will be on Thursday 15 March in de KoffieSalon on the Utrechtsestraat 130. Boris, Arjen and I start our day about once a week in this KoffieSalon and why not join us?
I put the following dutch description on the meetup page:
koffie, wifi, entrepreneurs, web2.0, programmeurs, startups, investeerders, openid, ajax, silicon city, amsterdam, hyves, thenextweb, solid ventures, ebuddy, fleck, wakoopa, lowland capital, zooof, visitopia, ilse, marketingfacts, marktplaats, DCIF, 2ehands, sellaband, schwag, yelloyello, bloggers, blueace, geenstijl, nu, meganova, fok, souki, tweakers, twones, bright, prime technology ventures,….
Elke donderdag kan je de dag beginnen met een aantal interessante mensen om je heen. De ene keer ben je met 20 man, de andere keer moet je het alleen met je koffie, je krantje en je laptop doen (het is wel de aller lekkerste koffie van Amsterdam!).
Laten we ervoor zorgen dat Amsterdam met recht de naam silicon city mag dragen! Het talent is er, de ideeen liggen op tafel, geld… (hmmm kan beter).
Elke week 1 vaste dag, 1 uur, 5 euro (voor je koffie).
If you like to join an Open Coffee meeting, please sign up at Meetup.
Get your agenda and mark: Every Thursday 09:00 -10:00 hrs, de KoffieSalon, Utrechtsestraat 130, Amsterdam.
Hope to see you there!
Oh almost forgot to say, if you have a startup and you have Schwag… bring it.
BTW Ben Metcalfe wrote an interesting post about the needed sparks and fuel for the European startup scene
The guys from Wakoopa (still in stealth mode) started a new cool blog; Schwag The Dog.
Every startup has his own schwag, be it buttons, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, or sugerbags. Schwag the Dog writes about the schwag of the startups. it is a nice way to get attention for your startup.
Startups can send their schwag via snail mail to Wakoopa (Oosterdokskade 3-5, suite 804, 1011 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and they will blog about it.
So what are you waiting for….!!
I’m gonna make new Fleck Schwag! hmmm Fleck slippers, Fleck chewing gum… have to think about it.
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