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Organized by SinnerSchrader, the next conference in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is one of the most important networking and trend conferences within the European web industry. It is the only conference that unites the Internet community with brands and leading companies. One of the people behind next is Martin Recke, next conference manager and Head of Corporate Communications at SinnerSchrader.



Amongst others, the speakers of next09 were Mathys van Abbe, Markus Berger-de León, Rafi Haladjian, Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein, Darius Miranda, Marco Ripanti, Axel Schmiegelow, Katarina Skoberne, Renato Valdes Olmos, Martin Szugat, Henriette Weber as well as Jeff Jarvis - blogger and author of What Would Google Do?



If you missed next09 or cannot wait to attend the next next conference, don't lose heart ;) there are only 270 days until next10! The event will take place at Kampnagel Hamburg on May 4 & 5 and will kick off with a Pre-Conference Day on May 4 and some visionary keynote speeches. The Main Conference Day with the full-fledged programme including four parallel tracks is scheduled for May 5. Over the next few months, the main topics and motto for next10 will be announced and a Call for Participation will be kicked off. If you register now you get 50% off! For more information or support just write an e-mail to next10@next10.de

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Starting today, Tiburon-TV will be publishing a new Monday series „The Top 5“. We picked the five most promising German Startups to kick off this new weekly series: Plista, barcoo, Twidox, Yoose and hiogi. Berlin-based startup plista.com, co-founded by Dominik Matyka, offers a personalized Internet user-experience and helps you discover new relevant content. It works on every channel as well as cross-domain as an item independent browser extension. Plista’s CIO Andreas Richter presented the startup at the Plugg Conference’s Startups Rally. Another startup from Germany’s dynamic capital city is barcoo.com, co-founded by Benjamin Thym. Barcoo’s mission is to offer transparency to consumers during shopping: The product’s 1D-barcode can be scanned with the barcoo application on one’s mobile and the consumer gets test ratings, local price comparisons and recommendations as well as ecological information on the scanned product. Wiesbaden-based startup twidox.com – founded by twin brothers Nicholas and Daniel MacGowan von Holstein as well as Jan Deppe is a free online library of documents that allows users and organizations to upload, share and manage their documents with direct access to any documents that can be found. The company focuses on large organizations within the European market and cooperates with Amazon, the United Nations and Creative Commons. Twidox has won third place of the best start-ups at this year’s Nonick conference in Bilbao and has been selected for the elevator pitch at next09. Yoose.com will be launching very soon its mobile coupon platform in Berlin with a very localized offering for Berlin-based retailers. „As soon as we have the first returns out of that launch, then we’ll take it quickly to other German cities and later on we’ll go international“, says founder and CEO Christian Geissendoerfer and adds „we’ll look into Asian countries since they are very open to new technology.“ The German startup teamed up with Aloqa and presented its service at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. Question & answer portal hiogi.com offers high-quality mobile answers for all mobile questions. All questions via the mobile portals or wireless email are free. To learn more about the startup, please watch hiogi's pitch from Le Mobile 2.0 as well as a mini video with hiogi’s co-founder and CEO Björn Behrendt. Please note that in next Monday's "The Top 5" we will be presenting "The 5 Most Promising Swiss Startups"

He’s both the co-founder of twidox.com and the organiser of „Challenges and Opportunities in 2009“: The young German / British entrepreneur Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein. „In the recession it’s important to see if there are synergies and collaboration possibilities with other companies“, finds Nicholas. „Everyone has to pull through this crisis together in order to come with a blue eye out on the other side. In Germany, we’re lucky that it hasn’t hit us quite as hard as in other places. You can talk it bad and bad and bad, but in the end you need to think about what you can do to come through it. History has shown that in times of crisis the best companies have been started.“ Nicholas, his twin brother Daniel and Jan Deppe came up with the idea for twidox, an online library of documents with direct access to any documents that can be found. Nicholas points out: „Twidox is also an extremely powerful tool for publishers. We analyze documents, extract metadata and make basically any quality document available to the crawlers.“ The company focusses on large organizations within the European market and cooperates with Amazon, the United Nations and Creative Commons. Being in the middle of its second financing round, twidox will be building up content as well as a white-label solution in 2009: „At the moment we have 70 hour work weeks“, says Nicholas „so there’s plenty to do... like assessing how users are working with twidox and going back to the drawing board to see how we can improve it. We will definitely roll out some new features. But our main task will be to speak to high-profile partners.“ More information on Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein, twidox and „Challenges and Opportunities in 2009“ can be found on our website www.tiburon-tv.com.

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The financial crisis is amongst us and will affect everyone in some way. Nonetheless, this event is not about discussing all the bad things around us, it is about providing a high-level, positive and casual platform for people in the technology/ internet industry to exchange ideas, experiences and create new business or collaboration opportunities.

The event is open to anyone who has purchased a ticket and will start at around 19:00. At around 19:30, there will be a number of short presentations about forthcoming challenges and opportunities in 2009. Afterwards, everyone will be able to discuss possible thoughts & experiences, synergies and collaboration opportunities, in a casual setting.

There will be a number of people giving presentations; so far these include:
• Terry von Bibra (CEO Yahoo Germany)
• Stephan Uhrenbacher (founder of Qype)
• Felix Haas (co-founder of amiando)
• Nicolas Kirschner (Investment Manager at High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
• Nico Lumma (lumma.de)
• Constantin Gonzalez (Principal Field Technologist at SUN Microsystems)
• Dr. Ingo Dahm ( Head of Academic Relations at Microsoft)
• Axel Schmiegelow (CEO at Sevenload)

Each presentation will be about 5-10 minutes long and centre on either a challenge or opportunity in 2009.

Date, time and location The event will take place at the premium event location Lounge2 in Munich, on the 18th of February. The event will start at 19:00.

Tickets to the event cost €6.99. They will be sold via our partner amiando.de and can be purchased here: http://www.amiando.com/cando09.html

News and information about the event will be delivered here and on Deutsche-Startups.de. Updates will also follow via twitter (@TiburonTV, @vik_t & @nicholasmvh) and on the twidox blog.

Sponsorship

If you are interested in supporting this event, please contact Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein A sponsorship package costs €399 and will provide the sponsor with:
• 5 free tickets to the event
• Branding on two posts on Deutsche-Startups.de
• Branding at the event (sponsor is responsible for implementation)
• One sponsor will be selected at random to pitch their business on stage for 1 min

Get in contact with the organizer: Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein - nicholas -at- twidox -.- com