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Oh well, that’s summer in Berlin… Some of us just decided to move our Friday afternoon meeting down to the river Spree, to get some sun and enjoy temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius. And least we had about ten minutes to work really hard – while also working really hard on our tan:

Short-term fun though – this is how lovely Berlin summer looked just a few minutes later:

Let’s just hope it changes back to sun-and-heat mode as quickly as it just did and wishing you all a sunny weekend!

TechCrunch is coming to Berlin! Tomorrow we’ll have Mike Butcher and his TechCrunch crowd over for a what everybody expects to be a great and exciting event at the zanox Campus in Berlin. “There is an amazing tech scene in Germany and we want to do our best to showcase this. That’s why we’re partnering with several local entities on the ground to really display the best of the German scene,” Mike writes. The afternoon will hold speakers and startup pitches, the evening will be a great opportunity for international networking. Hightlights are the panel discussion on “German innovation and Entrepreneurialism” as well as  the Startup Pitch Competition, which our zanox CEO Thomas Hessler will join as a member of the judging panel. Hope to see you at our Campus tomorrow and looking forward to great TechCrunch event! And all of you who don’t have a chance to attend, you can follow the live stream here.

Our CEO Thomas Hessler welcoming more than 100 TechCrunch Berlin guests at the zanox Campus.

Just one more week to go: Next Thursday, 19 February, the Live Shopping Days Berlin will take place at zanox GAP Campus. It’s the biggest and most important event of its kind – organised by Exciting Commerce, the Live Shopping Days spread from Hamburg and Munich right to the German capital. More than 100 guests, founders, start-ups as well as e-commerce business experts  will talk about market perspectives and live shopping strategies or take part in panel discussions and expert interviews. There are only a few tickets left, so if you want to join the crowd, make sure to get your ticket soon.

In spite of the short notice approximately 30 people from the Web 2.0 community met up for a special edition of the Facebook Developer Garage yesterday. The European Founders Fund has invited to the TopTarif offices in Berlin.

The participants had the chance to chat with Facebook developers from different continents and watched Mark Zuckberg’s (CEO Facebook) and Ben Ling’s (Director of Platform) keynote live from the f8 conference in San Francisco.

Thanks to organizer Miriam Rupp the minimal catering didn’t effect the casual atmosphere of the event .

Alexander Kudlich and Sebastian Wallroth from zanox’ HQ in Berlin mix and mingeled with new and old friends from other developer events like Facebook Developer Garage Hamburg, TechCrunch Meetup Berlin and the Monetization 2.0 Camp.

Mark Zuckerberg mentioned in his keynote that more than 50% of today’s Facebook traffic is non-american, compared to 10% in February. This development shows that Facebook is becoming a global player. This gives developers the chance to extend their applications to a wider audience. With zanox Web Services Facebook developers can monetize these applications on a global scale.

Check also the 1,000,000 Euro zanox Web Services Contest for more information