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The San Francisco Plug & Play Expo introduces “the best of the breed”: Executives, entrepreneurs, key venture capitalists and angel investors will come together to get insights into the lastest products and offerings of the internet, media, software or mobile industry. Of course we will make our way to Valley on 7 May to attend the event, sessions and presentations. We are also one of the Plug & Play sponsors, so we’ll be hosting the fun part: the cocktail reception! If you want to come along, meet us and enjoy a cocktail or two, drop by from 5 pm onwards at the Plug & Play TechCenter in San Francisco. Our CEO Thomas Hessler will give a brief speech and will let you know a little more about our just recently launched $2 Million zanox Application Store Contest for start-up businesses and developers.

We’d be happy to see you at the Plug & Play TechCenter. Check out the agenda and let us know if you want to join the party! Looking forward to seeing you in the Valley!

We had a great time at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, met many interesting people and learned quite a lot from the conference. Giving you a recap of all the sessions we attended would probably fill a whole book, so we just wanted to point you to the site where most of the speakers share their presentations for all those who didn’t have a chance to be there. We also took some pictures of the zanox team, our booth and a little San Francisco sightseeing tour. Check them out here:

I attended several sessions and found the following ones most valuable: Ryan Sarver talked about  “W3C Geolocation API – Adding ‘Where’ to Web Applications“and showed us how important location information will be for the future developments of apps. In “Best Practices in Social Media Integration for Web Publishers and Content Providers” Bob Buch, VP of business development for Digg,  pointed out the essential ingredients for social media integration. Tara Hunt explained how to have a good community presence during her session “The Whuffie Factor:  The 5 keys for Maxing Social Capital and Winning with Online Communities” and I learned a lot from Jyri Engestrom, talking about  “Building Sites Around Social Objects”. All in all, it was a great event and we are already looking forward to next year!