Web Monday
Silicon Valley
Mountain 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
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
11/05 12/05 1/06 2/06 3/06 4/06 5/06
# of meetings per month

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
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
11/05 12/05 1/06 2/06 3/06 4/06 5/06
Total # of cities

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
1,250
1,000
750
500
250
0
11/05 12/05 1/06 2/06 3/06 4/05 5/06
# wiki edits per month

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
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
1x 2x 3x 4x 5x or more
# of people who have participated n amount of times (attendee, maybe or audience)

What’s next?
• Grow?
• Connect?
• Get better?
• Go Germany!

Thank you.
Dankeschön.