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Do you have an innovative business idea and are looking for investment? Then you are probably excited to hear that we just officially kicked-off our $2 Million zanox Application Store Contest at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. After the great success of the zanox Web Services Contest and the winner ceremony last week, the second venture capital contest, held by us and Corporate Finance Partners, will award the winning business model(s) up to two million US-Dollars for the best monetising idea based on zanox Web Services. To learn more about the contest and how to register, check out our Web Services Blog!

Wow, 250 guests at zanox Gap Campus! Last night was one of the biggest events we have hosted at our Berlin Headquarters so far – and it was definitely one of the most exciting ones. The 1 Million zanox Web Services Contest Award Ceremony attracted the who-is-who of the German internet scene, start-up founders, investors and bloggers.  The evening was themed “Internet Republic Germany – entrepreneurs and politicians focus on the internet as a critical success factor” and also hosted the leader of the German liberal party, Guido Westerwelle, as a guest speaker. Check out the pictures – a best-of video will follow shortly!

Celebrate with us and Webtrekk, the winner of our 1 Mio Euro zanox Web Services Contest: On 24 March, we will have a great final party at zanox GAP Campus. Read more about the contest, the event and how to sign up for it on our Web Services Blog. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Our Web Services team has worked really hard over the last couple of months and finally THE day has come: Today we launched the open beta of zanox Web Services! Some of you might be wondering what you can do with zanox Web Services and how you can benefit from the new features. So here you go: First of all zanox Web Services are an innovative solution for both, web developers and our professional publishers. Web Services offer you access to a wide variety of new functions within our affiliate network and our infrastructure. Have a look at our Web Services video to learn more:

With zanox Web Services, you will now benefit from three key advantages when it comes to monetising your business ideas: a new automated process for managing your interaction with zanox, specific targeting opportunities including product search, geo targeting and contextual product matching, and the freedom to create your own innovative monetising models such as mobile applications or widgets. If you want to learn more about Web Services in practice, have a look at our showcases.

Two of our German closed beta testers, the team Karsten Windfelder and Frank Schulze, already published a detailed review on their blog 100partnerprogramme.de. “It’s a pleasant development that more and and more affiliate networks offer Web Services. They allow useful applications to be developed, updating one’s website in real time and the external evaluation of statistics,” Frank writes. “For the open beta launch, zanox Web Services look really good.” Read the full review here (in German).

If you want to know more about zanox Web Services, have a look at the zanox Web Services Blog, the Wiki documentation or the new Web Services Landingpage.

The Berlin Web Week is approaching quickly. It kicks off tonight with the Pre-Web 2.0 Expo Europe Drinkup at QBA.

zanox will take actively part in the Berlin Web Week to strengthen Berlin’s postition as the Start-up and innovation center in Europe; including a booth at Web 2.0 Expo Europe and sponsorships of the leading networking events like BarCamp Berlin 3 and LateCrunch.

Additionally we will host the Facebook Garage at our GAP Campus on 20. October 2008 and the zanox Web Services Contest Finale – Night of Innovations 2008 on 24. October 2008.

Berlin Web Week events at a glance at berlinwebweek.de and on zanox.com.