Web MondaySilicon ValleyMountain View, CA — June 12, 2006

Preface

• 05/16/2005: Tim moves to San Jose, CA

• Woah! Tons of cool stuff going on!

• 11/04/2005: First visit to Germany after 6 months of absorbing life in the SF Bay Area

• So... what’s happening in Germany? Hello?!

• 11/07/2005: Web Monday #1 (inspired by Wiki Wednesday, Barcamp and the like)

About

• Informal meetup in Germany on all topics web 2.0 (in the broadest sense)

• Brings together users, developers, web pioneers, researcher, entrepreneurs, VCs etc.

• Self-organized via the wiki

• Open, flexible, free...

• Sharing, learning, networking...

Purpose

• Better connect the German web 2.0 scene

• Improve transatlantic bridging (especially between Germany and Silicon Valley)

• Help bring some of those good Silicon Valley vibes to Germany

Stats: meetings

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# of meetings per month

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Stats: content

• Ca. 75 demos or presentations total

• Startups present: Plazes, Qype, Mabber, Hitflip, Studiverzeichnis, Fleavent, Spreadshirt

• Topics: AJAX, DeepaMehta, Semantic Web, Ruby on Rails, podcasting, Webkrauts, Antisocial JavaScript and XML, Venture Kung-fu, e-learning, creative commons, Google Epic, accessibility, tagging/contextizing etc.

Stats: cities

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Total # of cities

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Stats: cities II

• Available in: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Bielefeld, Karlsruhe

• This just in: Silicon Valley, Dresden

• Coming soon: Bremen, Münster, Gießen, Second Life

Stats: wiki activity

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# wiki edits per month

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Stats: tagging

• 424 pictures on Flickr

• 815 blog posts on Technorati

• 538 links on del.icio.us

• 959 results on Google search

Stats: user involvement

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# of people who have participated n amount of times (attendee, maybe or audience)

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What’s next?

• Grow?

• Connect?

• Get better?

• Go Germany!

Thank you.Dankeschön.