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We have eyes (almost) everywhere, thanks to our WebTipr’s. They tip us about new stuff happening in their country. Check the map on this page to see where they’re based. Would you like to join the WebTipr’s? Send us a short biography (Or LinkedIn page) + avatar and an example of a tip or post!
David Petherick, United Kingdom
David is a Scottish entrepreneur who has created a number of companies in language and business intelligence since 1993. He became known in 2007 as ‘The Digital Biographer’ from a BBC interview, and continues to advise, blog and speak on topics related to personal and corporate online visibility.
Follow David on Twitter or see his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information.
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.
Kurt Linderoos, Finland
Kurt is making Europeans more aware of their European citizenship by stimulating them to create Personal EU Teams on PersonalEU.net. By doing this, Europe should become the world’s most advanced information society. He lives in Helsinki, Finland.
See his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information about Kurt.
Joop Dorresteijn, Sweden
Joop lives in Sweden, a country known for its high speed networks, beautiful nature and unique web projects. He is a business administration student, web developer and SEO consultant. He likes to write about the social and useful contributions that are created in our next web.
See his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information about Joop.
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.
Peerapong Pulpipatnan, Thailand
Pete is the founder and developer leader of LetsProve. He’s also investing in Thailand Document Outsourcing Company (Docuxpert Co.) and works as an adviser. He is based in Bangkok.
See his website for more information about Pete.
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.
Marc Wesseling, Japan
Marc Wesseling is co-founder/director at Tokyo based interactive creative agency UltraSuperNew Inc. He also co-organizes industry networking event Tokyo2point0 in Tokyo each month.
See his website for more information about Marc.
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.
Victor Cruzate, Spain
Anthropologist and web addict. Worked non-stop for the past 12 years in different internet ventures in Buenos Aires, London, New York and Madrid. Currently helping people and companies as an independent consultant in matters such as interactive content, online marketing and community building.
See his LinkedIn for more information about Victor.
Christopher Comella, Sweden
Chris is an American entrepreneur living in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the founder of BuzzPal – The World Is Your Party, a seed-stage startup. Chris’s background includes an MBA from Georgetown University, in Washington, DC, his hometown, and a number of years in venture capital and corporate finance.
Visit his LinkedIn profile, company blog, and personal blog for more information.
David Long, United Kingdom
David spends most of his time helping businesses to grow by improving their digital marketing activities. When he isn’t consulting, blogging or twittering about digital marketing tools and techniques he abuses a little white ball in the pursuit of his third love - Golf.
See his LinkedIn for more information about David.
Cyril Attias, France
Cyril started working in the Interactive business in 1999 at OgilvyInteractive. He created a ‘Digital Unit’ at Ogilvy France in 2006 and is now in charge of Digital Influence Unit in one of the best French Ad agencies.
Cyril is also blogging about digital experiences in the advertising world.
See his blog for more information about Cyril.
Jens Schwoon, Germany
Jens is product manager and owner of Web.de, the second-largest internetportal in Germany.
See his LinkedIn profile for more information about Jens.
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