Ebuddy provides instant messaging to all platforms for all browsers for all devices. Ebuddy can be used on mobile phones, Sony PSP’s, Nintendo’s, etc. It is a successtory, they have more than 40 million online and over 6 million mobile users. It counts up to more than 1 billion pageviews every month. The main […]

Tapan Bhat, vice-president of Front Doors, Yahoo, asks the question: Is the next web the next web at all? Tapan Baht kicks off with a short overview how the web changed. The old web contained static content, moved to a web where search is the dominant cocept to the web nowadays and the future which […]

Debora Schultz, former marketing director at Six Apart, has a presentation called “Stop yelling and start weaving. Communicating in a relationship economy”.
Schultz talks about the fact that the medium is the relationship. More and more people are moving away from email in the direction of instant messaging, chatting and even Twitter. You are connecting anywhere […]

After the break we get some product presentations. The first is Microsoft Silverlight. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications. Adobe shows Apollo,  a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, etc). Furthermore they extended the […]

Jeff Clavier is a succesfull venture capitalist with French origins.  He points out that the market for investing is much more difficult in 2007 than in 2004. Less and less talented people are available and the competion is getting much stronger. But he still invests. There are still a lot of offline inefficiences, large pockets […]

A couple of hundred internet adepts, startups, people who are just interested in what the future of the internet has offer have come together in the beautiful old theatre of Tuschinski in Amsterdam for the Next Web Conference. Moderator Scott Rafer welcoms us with and outlines the content of today. Where Google is all about […]