Web Monday Silicon Valley, Vol. 1

Slide 1: Web Monday Silicon Valley Mountain View, CA — June 12, 2006

Slide 2: 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)

Slide 3: 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...

Slide 4: 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

Slide 5: 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

Slide 6: 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.

Slide 7: 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

Slide 8: 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

Slide 9: 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

Slide 10: Stats: tagging • 424 pictures on Flickr • 815 blog posts on Technorati • 538 links on del.icio.us • 959 results on Google search

Slide 11: 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)

Slide 12: What’s next? • Grow? • Connect? • Get better? • Go Germany!

Slide 13: Thank you. Dankeschön.