http://www.koelpin.de weekly news about the Digital Berlin by Alexander Kölpin Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:57:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More than 180 exhibitors from the capital region Berlin-Brandenburg exhibited at the Cebit 2010. Some of them met at the Berlin booth in hall 2. Though part of the media were discussing the necessity of this ICT exhibition, the general mood seemed good, it was well worth the trip. The ... http://www.koelpin.de/2010/03/berlin-at-the-cebit-2010/ Wie in den letzten 3 Jahren wird auch dieses Jahr Berlin wieder mit einem Stand auf der web 2. 0 Expo vom 3. - 5. Mai in San Francisco vertreten sein. Organisiert wird der Messestand durch die Berlin Partner GmbH, die auch Silver Sponsor der web 2.0 Expo ist. ... http://www.koelpin.de/2010/02/berliner-startups-auf-der-web-2-0-expo-anfang-mai-2010-in-san-francisco/ [Am sitting in front row seat and trying out the iPhone's wordpress app for liveblogging:] Full house at the Socialmediaweek's Congress in Berlin. I love that they have chosen the Berlin-typical location Festsaal Kreuzberg - crowded and people were queuing up outside. This panel was moderated by Markus Angermeier ( @kosmar ... http://www.koelpin.de/2010/02/socialmediaweek-berlin-2010/ Not truly digital in every sense, but good for Berlin and its English speaking visitors - NPR is in Berlin. I am a big fan of NPR, the US' public, non-commercial radio, which you can basically hear in all regions of the USA. Of course you can listen to them ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/11/npr-national-public-radio-on-fm-in-berlin/ Am 9. Juni fand im gut gefüllten Berliner ewerk die Preisverleihung des Deutschen Multimedia Awards DMMA statt. Aus etwa 300 Einreichungen wurden 19 Preisträger ausgewählt. Moderiert wurde die Abendveranstaltung von der Ehrensenf Präsentatorin Christine Henning, die wie in ihrer Selbstdarstellung auf der Ehrensenf Seite beschrieben, deutlich machte, dass sie "sich ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/06/deutscher-multimedia-award-und-dmmk-2009/ Friday morning, getting up after the Zanox Summer Party and heading straight to the Berlin Open Coffee Club in the Carras Café at Potsdamer Platz. The crowd was a little smaller than usual, due to the aforementioned party I think, but the networking was good. The idea is simple, existing ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/06/berlinwebweek-open-coffee-club-and-bizzin3d-meetup/ Wednesday and Thursday evening of the BerlinWebWeek 2009 were a good occasion to meet new people and catch up on old acquaintences. Nicole Simon invited the GirlGeeks who were around to her GirlGeekDinner to CoffeeKarma in Friedrichshain and Alexander Hüsing from Deutsche Startups invited the movers and shakers of the ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/05/berlinwebweek-girlgeekdinner-echtzeit-and-zanox-summer-party/ This week, the BerlinWebWeek 2009, was hard so far - lots of events, meetings and parties to go to. Having initiated this BerlinWebWeek I tried to be at all the events and I almost succeeded. Most of my time I spent at the webinale conference, the strategy and business oriented ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/05/berlinwebweek-webinale-railswaycon-phpconference-und-virtual-worlds-camp/ Die BerlinWebWeek Spring Edition 2009 hat begonnen - wieder ein sonniges barcamp in Berlin. Gestern und heute fand das Berliner Usability User Experience Camp statt, im Erwin Schroedinger - Zentrum (ja, der mit der Katze) in Berlin Adlershof. Es war gut, die Vorstellungsrunde auch bei gefühlten 200 Leuten durchzuführen, so ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/05/uxcamp09-usability-camp-berlin-2009/ Ich war an diesem Wochenende mit offensichtlich fast 600 anderen auf dem Politcamp 09 Berlin (twitter hashtag #pc09) und habe es nicht bereut, die Maisonne mit den Vorträgen und Diskussionen im Radialsystem zu tauschen. Zumal die Lage es Radialsystems an der Spree genügend Sonne und Aussicht bot. Insgesamt ein wirklich gelungene ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/05/politcamp-09-berlin/ The third year in a row Berlin has had its booth at the web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. I think I remember Berlin being the only German booth as well as being the only economic development agency there in the past. Counting all companies there now I come to ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/04/berlin-at-the-web-20-expo-09/ [caption id="attachment_172" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Webmontag"][/caption] Yesterday the Webmonday Silicon Valley took place, i.e. the Webmontag web 2.0 Expo edition. I do not exactly know, how many people were there, I suppose around 40 all in all. It took place in Citizen Space, a co-working place in San Francisco's city centre I ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/04/berlin-at-the-webmonday-in-san-francisco-march-2009/ Berlin will be present for the 3rd time in April 2009 at the web 2.o Expo in the Silicon Valley. Berlin Partner organized a booth for the capital region, which they will use together with the economic development agency of Brandenburg ZAB to market to international companies for an expansion ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/03/berlin-auf-der-web-2o-expo-in-san-francisco-april-2009/ The BerlinWebWeek SpringEdition will take place at the end of May 2009, the preparations are going on fine and I am very optimistic, that the days of the BerlinWebWeek will be packed with events again. They will make travelling to the capital worthwhile. I have tried to compile a ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/02/ruckblick-berlinwebweek-2008/ Berlin will be present at the web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in March 2009, however, the Berlin presence at US East Coast and West Coast web conferences has a long history. The last presence of Berlin - Berlin Partner and Berlin companies - was at the web 2. 0 ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/02/berlin-on-east-coast-and-west-coast/ The next BerlinWebWeek will take place end of May 2009. The best time for it was discussed for a long time since there are two big events in the 2nd quarter of the year which would have been suitable, the re:publica and the webinale. Organisational reasons led to the decision to have ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/02/the-next-berlinwebweek-will-take-place-end-of-may-09/ To get an overview about who is who and who is doing what in the German (speaking) Startup scene, a regular visit of  Deutsche Startups is recommended. The portal, whose editorial office is located in Berlin, publishes a daily newsletter, offers a huge  list of existing web startups, a long ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/02/deutsche-startupsde-online-und-offline/ http://www.koelpin.de/2009/02/mit-deinem-startup-ende-marz-09-zur-web-20-expo-nach-san-francisco/ For people, who would like to get to know the Berlin Web and Free Software crowd and also meet nice people and have a cold beer, I recommend the webmonday, Webmontag, at new.thinking. The founders of new.thinking and hosts of the events are Andreas Gebhard und Markus Beckedahl. The new.thinking ... http://www.koelpin.de/2009/01/webmonday-in-berlin/ One of the most forward thinking events I have ever visited was the web 2.0 summit 2008 organized by O'Reilly Media. They are usually organized at the end of each year in November in San Francisco. It is an invitation only event (you can ask for one here) which has ... http://www.koelpin.de/2008/12/berlin-at-the-web-20-summit-2008/