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Get back to work!
That is it! Party time is over!
No more champagne and stuffed turkey.
Back to the drawing board!
It is now January 5th and there are no excuses left to NOT work on that beautiful start-up you vowed to start in the new year.
We here at The Next Web Blog and Conference are eager to start the year [...]
The start-ups and expensive conferences paradox, here’s a solution
Ok, so conferences are really important if you want to get the word out about your start-up. Meeting people face to face and getting a chance to pitch your start-up to an influential via a different way than his overloaded inbox is just priceless. Unfortunately, the conference ticket fee isn’t. 750 euros 1250 euros, it’s [...]
Video: Garrett Camp (Founder StumbleUpOn) on search
Here is Garrett Camp’s keynote from The Next Web Conference 2008. After a short summary of the history of search – from directories, to algorithm, to social networks and social media – and types of search – page, query, image, visual, video, people, product and music – Garrett Camp shared some thoughts on the future:
social [...]
Video: Werner Vogels (CTO Amazon.com) on “Uncertainty”
Here is Werner Vogels’ keynote titled “Uncertainty” from The Next Web Conference 2008. Vogels shares with us that “everything fails all the time. We lose whole datacenters! Those things happen.” and “let us worry about those things, not you as a startup. Focus on your ideas.”. An interesting presentation whether you are considering using [...]
Video: Gil Penchina (wikia.com) “Giving insane levels of control to your customers”
Gil Penchina, CEO of wikia.com talks about his experiences with “Giving insane levels of control to your customers” at eBay (8 years) and now at Wikia. The difference between Wikia and Wikipedia, as Gil explains, is that WikiPedia is the encyclopedia and Wikia the rest of the library. By giving his user lots of responsibilities [...]
Behind the scenes footage of Diggnation’s trip to Amsterdam
Thanks to a ‘stumble‘ by Melody McCloskey, I’ve found this brilliant footage of the trip Diggnation made to Amsterdam for The Next Web Conference. Especially fun are the parts about the Speakers Dinner at Boris’ house and some random footage from the live show. We’re really glad that Glenn, Kevin, Alex, Jim, and the others [...]
Video: Leah Culver (Pownce): “Webapp in 5 steps”
Leah Culver talked about starting Pownce.com, how they came up with the name and the idea, the whole story about their API, how networking helps entrepreneurs, her reason for being in San Francisco and more interesting insights. Then she also takes time to answer some questions from the audience. Anne Helmond wrote a post about [...]
Say goodbye to your business cards, here’s Project E
Take a look at your desk, chances are high you’ll see a huge stack of business cards. All collected at conferences, meet-ups, and Open Coffee’s. It’s actually a bit absurd: while we’re digitalizing our lives, we still use paper to create the foundation for a new contact. Project E is one of the first initiatives [...]
Video: Scott Rafer interviews Kevin Rose (Digg.com)
Scott Rafer, the Succesful Serial Entrepreneur, co-founder of Mashery, previously CEO of MyBlogLog and currently CEO of Lookery interviewed Kevin Rose, co-founder Revision3, Pownce and Digg.com at The Next Web Conference 2008. This is a very personal interview in which Kevin talks about his own experiences and even comments on upcoming features on Digg.
The original [...]
Video: Khris Loux (JS-Kit.com) at The Next Web Conference 2008
Khris Loux is CEO and co-founder of JS-Kit, a start-up company that provides widgets to easily add interactivity to your site:
Our simple, modular and fully customizable web-services, also known as “widgets”, are fast becoming the building blocks of rich, interactive online experiences for leading-edge web sites. These solutions are self-service, elegant, powerful, and easily deployed [...]
Video: Adeo Ressi (TheFunded.com) at The Next Web Conference 2008
We are very happy to be able to announce the first video in a series of videos taped during The Next Web Conference 2008. We have videos of all the keynotes and will publish them here regularly from now on.
The first keynote we want to show you is the one from Adeo Ressi, The Founding [...]
The Next Web Conference 2008 in 2 minutes (video)
Probably a lot of you guys went to The Next Web Conference. Though for those of you who didn’t, I’ve summed up the key arguments of the speakers in a two-minute a video. It gives a great overview of the speakers who attented there and shares some interesting insights. If you want to know more, [...]
Digg.com down: new features?
Digg.com, down for maintenance, or new features?
Last week at the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam Kevin Rose said: “We have to fix the Upcoming section because it’s broken. Nobody can follow the 50,000 new stories users submit per day”.
The future might not have been very far ahead of us. Digg.com just went down with [...]
Enough for the conference now, this blog must go on
Thanks for your great feedback yesterday! I’m really glad to hear that you guys had a good time and were inspired by the speakers and other attendees. Like I said yesterday, this blog will continue to report on European Web 2.0 news. Yet before we continue, I’d like to give you an overview of the [...]
Women on the Next Web meetup
On Friday morning, every woman that participated in the conference got together at the Women on the next Web meetup, which I organized during the international meetup as a follow-up of the female Internet heroes series. About 40 women, being 5% of the participants, joined forces to network, get inspired and talk about their business. [...]
That was one rocking conference!
Thanks everybody for attending or following us online! If you’re not having drinks with us on stage now, you can leave a comment to tell us what you think about the last two days!
One important notice: this blog keeps reporting about the next web! We ARE associated with the conference yet there’s one difference: we’re [...]
Winners of The Next Web Awards
And the winners are….!
Entertainment: Last.fm
European Company: Hyves
If you’re visiting from Hyves, you’re gonna like this article about the Hyves 5 million party!
Social: StudiVZ
Webceleb: Loic le Meur
Check out his thank you video on Seesmic.
Weblog: Dutchcowboys
Rookie of the Year: Glubble
On Stage Start-up: Wakoopa
Jessicah Mah: “Recommendations are crap!”
Jessicah Mah is a 17 year old serial entrepreneur and blogger who started her first business at 11 years old and a dedicated server company at the age of 13. She is now a sophomore in college but still loves starting businesses.
Mah expressed a common complaint on the web: We have so much clutter and [...]
Photo impression of The Next Web so far
For everybody who wanted to be in Amsterdam but couldn’t make it (or is too much of a cheapskate to buy a ticket) some photo’s to get an impression.
Left: NextWeb Blogger @ work and Erik Schonfeld from TechCrunch Crunching down a new article.
Right: There was food too.
Left: Lots of great start-ups presented themself during [...]
David Hasselhof got all the attention during the last round of start-ups
The Next Web is about the future of the web, so it is obvious that startups play a significant role during the Conference. 24 startups will do a 5 minute presentation on main stage. During breaks all attendees and press can visit the startups at their booth in the Company Arena (same area as where [...]
Garrett Camp: “one-size-fits-all in search is history”
So I hope Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbeUpon, uses Slideshare since he has just summed up all the hot topics of the web in thirty minutes. It was hard to keep track with. No kidding! All the important questions the web community struggles with, were discussed by Camp. This would have been a really interesting [...]
Werner Vogels: “Everything fails all the time”
Werner Vogel is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com and focuses on technology innovation within the company. As “the oldest guy in the slate” at the Next Web Vogel takes a few steps back and looks at the larger patterns in the media world instead of presenting a visionary view.
Media have [...]
Third round of start-ups: are you looking for a warm body?
The Next Web is about the future of the web, so it is obvious that startups play a significant role during the Conference. 24 startups will do a 5 minute presentation on main stage. During breaks all attendees and press can visit the startups at their booth in the Company Arena (same area as where [...]
Robert Scoble at The Next Web, Amsterdam
I spoke to Robert Scoble in Amsterdam at http://2008.thenextweb.org/
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Nova Spivack: “The Semantic Web as an open and less evil web”
Nova Spivack is a web visionary, entrepreneur and the founder of semantic web application Twine. It is a service that aims to “tie it all together” in order to make sense of the web. The semantic web is a popular buzz word used for giving meaning to the web. Moderator Erick Schonfeld is not alone [...]
Second round of start-ups that are shaping the next web
The Next Web is about the future of the web, so it is obvious that startups play a significant role during the Conference. 24 startups will do a 5 minute presentation on main stage. During breaks all attendees and press can visit the startups at their booth in the Company Arena (same area as where [...]
Leah Culver and the magical unicorn: A Pownce story
Leah Culver is a co-founder and lead developer of Pownce, a social messaging application that combines micro-blogging and social networking. She is notable for her laser-etched MacBook Pro with Web2.0 company logos. By selling advertisement space on top of her laptop she was able to afford to replace her ancient Mac with a shiny new [...]
Keynote: Khris Loux “Bloggers and startups, challenge the big companies and embrace open standards”
Khris Loux is CEO and co-founder of JS-Kit, a start-up company that provides widgets to easily add interactivity to your site:
Our simple, modular and fully customizable web-services, also known as “widgets”, are fast becoming the building blocks of rich, interactive online experiences for leading-edge web sites. These solutions are self-service, elegant, powerful, and easily [...]
Kevin Rose: ‘Digg will soon start suggesting stories’
Kevin Rose is officiously one of the most famous Web 2.0 entrepreneurs. He has co-founded Revision3, Pownce, and of course his most popular company Digg. Somebody with such an entrepreneurial spirit certainly has something to tell, so we asked Scott Rafer – who also managed successful start-ups such as MyBlogLog – to interview Kevin on [...]
The Next Web conference live videostream
Didn’t make it to the conference? I’m really sorry for you! I do have some good news though. You can now follow the conference by downloading Silverlight to see the live video stream (after the more button). So you might still miss the networking part, but you do have the possibility to stay updated about [...]
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