33 “hot” Web 2.0 companies from Holland

Written on August 9, 2008 – 12:50 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Forgive your blogger this nationalistic moment: but here’s a short video showing 33 hot Dutch Web 2.0 companies. I just want to make sure you know innovative web companies like SellaBand, Nulaz, Respectance, and our sponsors eBuddy and Wakoopa are from that tiny little country in West Europe.

A complete list of the start-ups can be found on Bubble Foundry - where Peter Robinett collected them for you. The video was brought to you by the guys from AppAppeal, who try to gain attention with mash-ups like this one. They succeeded for the second time now. Although I don’t agree with the background music. This song would have been more appropriate.

I hope you like that post!

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

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By Peter Robinett on Aug 9, 2008

If you see your company missing from my list, please let me know!

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on August 9th, 2008:
TwitterCounter.com! Feedburner for Twitter! :-)

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By Peter Robinett on August 9th, 2008:
Of course! Added!

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By John on Aug 9, 2008

And how about Zideo.nl, videosharing and revenue sharing?

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By Peter Robinett on August 9th, 2008:
I did miss them but actually just added them to the list a few minutes ago. =)

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By John on August 10th, 2008:
Ha ha oke, thanks Peter

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By Erik on Aug 9, 2008

Hollanders are crazy folks.
That ir1connect looks pretty cool.
Kinda like Meetup or Upcoming on maps… for crazy hollanders.

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By Sander on Aug 10, 2008

What do you think of tunin.fm? Music on your mobile, wherever you are through your gprs or umts connection

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By Avatar on Aug 10, 2008

ah.. the dutch. crazy as hell, but also brilliant as hell. i have dutch friends so i am not saying it just because.

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