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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.

The word just got out…
Jason Calacanis is giving a keynote speech at The Next Web Conference! Jason is a successful Serial Internet Entrepreneur and an extraordinary human being. Read more about him at Wikipedia or in this Wired Article.

Check his blog also.

The Jason Calacanis Weblog

I’m always looking for some cool opportunities to show Fleck to an audience. I believe Startups face two major problems:

1. Get funding (at least in Europe you have to do a lot more than just snap your fingers)
2. Get published (create a hype)

So as of now I’ll start a series called: “Cool opportunities for startups”. If I see an opportunity I’ll share it here. This is the first one. And why not start with The Next Web Conference. This conference is attended by web influentials only, and a lot of cool stuff is happening out there for startups.

Startup Arena, Showcases on main stage and Speedpitching sessions. That sound s cool right? Check it out.

TheNextWeb.org - Amsterdam, June 1, 2007 » Startup Arena

I tried to meet all of them for some years already, but for one reason or the other they are never where I am, not even in my favorite coffee bar!
But, my luck might be changing!! I got an invitation for the DLD conference (Digital Life Design) in Munich this weekend. And guess who will be there as well…..?

Good guess!

Unfortunately I’ll miss the performance of Nicolas Negroponte because the cheapest airline I could find only goes once a day at 16:20 hrs.

I have some ideas for some cool podcasts live from the conference, so it is time to get myself an audio recording device. The problem is that my birthday is just after the conference (the 24th) and I can’t afford one at the moment…
So the question is… Who is willing to lend me (or even better buy me) an audio recording device this weekend?
How about this… if you can lend/buy me the device I’ll make each one of them say your (company) name :)

I’m pretty exited to go and I’m looking forward to meet up with Tariq.

It’s official!

The Next Web Conference will be held on the first of June in Amsterdam.

The Next Web is for technology entrepreneurs, VC’s, industry journalists, influential bloggers, Top Notch developers, forward thinking CEO’s and though leaders only.

At the beginning of February we will open up registration.