WebTipr’s

We have eyes (almost) everywhere, thanks to our WebTipr’s. They tip us about new stuff happening in their country. Some of them regularly write articles.

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Mircea Goia, United States
Mircea Goia was born in Romania and emigrated to US in 2005. He lives in Phoenix, AZ and works as web developer. His is involved in several online projects and one of them is MyTestBox.com. Mircea shows a keen interest in commercial Web development such as social networks, viral marketing, e-commerce, online video (and filmmaking).
See his LinkedIn for more information about Mircea

Tijs Teulings, The Netherlands
Tijs Teulings runs a small web agency called Automatique and is busy building the online portfolio service startup Fresh.li. He is also involved in several community projects such as The RoomWare Project which aims take your online identity into the physical world. His current infatuation is portable social networks.
See his LinkedIn profile and lifestream for more information.

Johan Pretorius, South-Africa
Johan is currently pursuing opportunities in the Ruby on Rails environment, Facebook application development as well as desktop applications utilizing web content.
See his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information.

Maria Sipka, Spain
Maria is the CEO and co-founder of Linqia, the world’s first community and group meta search engine and previously worked at Xing, the social network for professionals. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Visit her Xing profile to get to know Maria.

Gonzague Dambricourt, France
Gonzague is a 20-year old student in Business and Management, who lives in Amiens, France. He is a consultant and community manager for BuzzParadise which is part of VanksenGroup and manages relations between blogs and brands.
Visit his blog to get to know Gonzague.

Yaniv Solnik, Israel
Yaniv is a veteran technologist with extensive web, mobile & IPTV know how and experience.
Amongst others, Yaniv have created LinkedInABox.com and is working on his new venture BEEtv.
See his LinkedIn profile for more information about Yaniv.

Timo Paloheimo, Finland
Timo is an advertising agency online creative/planner with marketing and business background. He focuses on digital marketing communications. He blogs about the web, startups and one man’s quest to create one.
See his LinkedIn profile and blog for more information about Timo.

Ricardo Bernardo, Portugal
Ricardo – also known as zone41 – writes about Web 2.0 for the Portuguese weblog network Tubaraoesquilo.pt.
During his spare time he tries to improve his short game on golf.
See his LinkedIn profile, Twitter and blog for more information about Ricardo.

Steven Carrol, France
Steven is a web applications developer, living in south of France, originally from London. In the nineties, he was a designer / director of a highly successful design, manufacturing and distribution company (Intimidation).
See his blog for more information about Steven.

Michael Sheetal, Japan
Michael is co-founder/director at Tokyo based interactive creative agency UltraSuperNew Inc. He also co-organizes industry networking event Tokyo2point0 in Tokyo each month and is active on mikesheetal.com, blogging about running an interactive agency in Japan.
See his blog for more information about Michael.

Doron Vermaat, China
Doron Vermaat is co-founder and Managing Director of NewChinaCareer.com, China’s largest English language recruitment portal. Doron closely follows the Chinese media, advertising and internet news from his hometown Hong Kong.
See his LinkedIn for more information about Doron.

Reshila, Russia
Reshila is a blogger and is also working on consulting different on-line projects. Reshila has maintained a community for a world-wide brand in Livejournal and thus has experience in consulting the community builders.
See Reshila’sblog for more information.

Ayelet Noff, Israel
Ayelet is a strategist in the world of online marketing, community building, social software, and networking. She consults hi-tech companies in regards to marketing strategy, public relations in the blogosphere, product development, community building, promotion & branding, site content, and UI enhancement. In the past Ayelet worked at a few different startups and also served as ICQ’s Marketing and Promotions Manager for four years. She likes to think of herself as a creative and “out of the box” thinker. She holds an MBA degree from Tel Aviv University, and a BA in Politics from Brandeis University.
See her blog for information

Steven Kempton, New Zealand
Steven Kempton is an Entrepreneur, Headhunter and Blogger. Expert in working for startups and technology firms who need to make cross-cultural strategic hires in Asia. He suggests you check out Ponoko.com if you love unique and wonderful things.
See his LinkedIn profile for more information about Steven.

Cristiano Betta, United Kingdom
Cristiano Betta was raised in Almere and in 2002 began to study Media and Knowledge Engineering in Delft. He’s now finishing his masters at Imperial College London. From his London base Cristiano shares with us his experiences of the big city vibe and reports back from its lively scene.
See his blog for more information about Cristiano.

Toivo Tänavsuu, Estonia
Toivo is working for Estonian biggest weekly Eesti Ekspress. Also blogging in Estonian and in English about innovative Estonian companies and entrepreneurs, whose ambitions reach far beyond Estonian borders. He’s also searching exclusive stories globally – just visited Silicon Valley, but have also been, for instance, in Playboy mansion in Beverly Hills, babbling with Hugh Hefner.

Michael Leander Nielsen, Denmark
Michael Leander is passionate about technology and marketing. Following 20 years of management experience in publishing, IT/internet and marketing he is a recognized integrated marketing expert, an accomplished public speaker and advisor to start-ups and grown-ups. He is also the CEO of Fokus Integrated.
See his Xing or LinkedIn, read his marketing blog or watch his show for more information about Michael

Jens Schwoon, Germany
Jens is Productmanager Fotoservice and Software Downloads pf Web.de, the second-largest internetportal in Germany.
See his LinkedIn profile for more information about Jens.

Sjors Timmer
Sjors is a front-end web designer, currently doing his MA in Digital Media in London. In the past he has worked as lead designer for social and e-commerce sites. He is interested in the interaction between humans and technology, and the way networks are used to create new opportunities.
See his LinkedIn profile and website for more information.

Jeroen Bakker
Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of both web development outfit Paragin and e-learning company Paragin. He’s involved as a co-founder in start-up Infovester, which aims to help professionals cope with information overload by harvesting, indexing and filtering the information they need in their daily job. Jeroen has a special interest in the business and start-up side of Web 2.0.
See Paragin, Remindo and Infovester for more information.

Chris Obdam
Chris is a true Apple fanatic, OpenID adept and Ruby on Rails promotor. Through his internet agency he tries to persuade people to switch from the dark side. With Holder, the internet agency he co-founded, he co-organized the Dutch Ruby On Rails conference called Ruby And Rails Amsterdam. As an OpenID adept Chris founded the first public OpenID server based in Holland.
See An Internet Agency and Holland on Rails

Pieter-Paul Walraven, China
Pieter-Paul lives in Beijing where he works for +8* (plus eight star), the leading cross-market and cross-culture innovation consulting company about Asia’s telecom and Internet. Before moving to China he  graduated on the internationalization of the Chinese Internet industry. Besides writing about himself in third person Pieter-Paul is also co-author of the award winning China tech-blog MOBINODE.
See his LinkedIn profile or Twitter profile for more information.