The Next Web

Enough for the conference now, this blog must go on

Written on April 5, 2008 – 5:57 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

The Next Web Blog covers start-up news from all over the world (not just the Valley), exciting new technologies and inspiring entrepreneurs. If you're new here, you may want to read our 'About' page and subscribe to our RSS feed.

If you came here from Digg it would be great if you could actually Digg us too! Do you have a start-up that we should write about? Contact us! Thanks for visiting and hope you come back again!

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 posts we’ve written the last couple of days. So you can sit back, relax and relive the conference.

TheNextWeb2008 Update: Vote for Last Two Demos

Written on April 1, 2008 – 9:05 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

In only 2 days The Next Web Conference 2008 will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We will post short daily updates about speakers, initiatives and events here.

Earlier we announced the 24 start-ups that would present on stage at The Next Web Conference in two days. We announced the first 22 and we thought it would be a good idea to let you decide who you want to see in the last two 5 minute presentations.

So now YOU can decide which 2 companies will present on stage on Friday. The two companies who have the most votes on Wednesday April 2nd at noon will be presenting on The Next Web.

We played around with a couple of widgets and Poll PHP Scripts but decided it would be more fun to simply count comments.

Here are the companies:

	Up2date.net Navigation by Meaning: Easy navigation from daily mail, documents & search to related information by a semantic navigation map.
	VIDDIX.com VIDDIX is a new video platform that allows users to add all kinds of webcontent to their video timeline. This new video platform will enrich the online video experience in ways never before seen on the web.
	Locle.com Locle is the hottest mobile geo-social networking app, showing your location and if friends are near, without a need for GPS or operator LBS.
	Soocial.com Hassle-free contacts for people with friends. The same addressbook on your phone, Macs, webapps like GMail and Highrise and access via API.
	Wuzzon.com Wuzzon stops the ringtone mafia! Celebrating their 1st anniversary & ready to conquer the world. Vote for this female dynamic duo on stage!