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The Next Web Conference 2008

Published on March 29th, 2008 by Author Elias Kai elias.kai

Who will be the finalist for the next web conference 2008 in Amsterdam?

Selected startups until now:
eBuddy
Wakoopa
Lookery
andUNITE
Twingly
Webnode
Backbase
CoComment
Netlog
BembaBemba
Radionomy
Goojet
BeezBox
Symbaloo
Wauw.fm
Empressr
Fleck
Fav.or.it
Hoera
uberVU
ConfNetwork
Introniche
Zilok ? you?

Last.fm expanded in Germany and plans to “scrobble” video/TV as well as music.

• XING, the European business social network competing with LinkedIn hit revenues of $30.98 million and the member base increased to nearly 5 million .

• 100 Euro Tech startups were picked out for the Red Herring’s annual European competition.

• The Guardian newspaper hired Matt McAlister, currently the director of Yahoo’s developer network to begin building a development platform.

• Zemanta launched its alpha for blogging on acid.

• Facebook’s UK figures bounced back after the holiday period.

• 3i re-terated that it was exiting from early stage in Europe.

• IBM started a Cloud Computing Centre in Dublin.

• We reviewed Intruders.TV, Europe’s answer to FastCompany.tv.

• Video startup BlinkBox inked a deal with FreemantleMedia.

• France’s Wikio RSS news aggregator launched in the UK.

• EU startups competed at the Plugg conference.

• Myrl launched a Web-based virtual world.

• Spinvox raised $100m (as story we broke) .

• Isango raised $8 million for its ‘travel experiences’.

• WAYN.com looked like it was on the block again.

• CloudMade raised €2.4m to supercharge open source maps.

• WeLoveLocal sold a majority stake to a local radio group.

• Pointlessly, EU taxpayers were forced to fund a $306m Google rival.

• We reviewed Forkd – a social network for recipes.

• 20 UK startups are to visit Silicon Valley in April – come meet them.

• The Russian government to buy YouTube clone for $15m.

• Scott Rafer joined Polldaddy.

• Google had strong European growth.

More European Startup news:

• Online video viewing stats tripled in the UK.

• UK real estate startup Zoopla! got off to a cracking start.

• European mobile Internet users will triple, reaching 125 million by 2013.

• Russiona search player Yandex questioned Google’s claim to dominance in Russia.

• UK startup Reevoo received funding from a French VC firm.

• The EU officially endorsed DVB-H for handset TV video.

• Apple appears to be waiting for 3G iPhones before launching in Spain and Italy.

• Behavioural targeting firm Phorm has been branded ‘illegal’ by a policy group amid further criticism of the company’s plans to track users via their ISP.

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