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Last week has been a busy one for the Web 2.0 community. Berlin is taking another steps in strengthening its position as the European Web 2.0 hub with the Berlin Web Week.

Starting with the BarCamp Berlin 3 more than 800 visitors and a wide range of presentations; followed by the Facebook Garage on Monday at the zanox GAP Campus. The official Web 2.0 Expo started on the 21st and hosted an international crowd of Web 2.0 advocates. The LateCrunch event was a big highlight with more than 300 guests.

We are proud that we were part of this exciting week, not only by hosting and sponsoring the main events but also by contributing our own event. Luckily people were not too tired after a full week of events to celebrate the finale of our zanox Web Services Contest.

We think the Berlin Web Week has been a great success and we are happy that we took actively part – we enjoyed it a lot!

We are looking forward to the Berlin Web Week 2009

Many thanks to everyone who made this Berlin Web Week happen.

On 24th October 2008 the zanox GAP Campus hosted another great event: the zanox Web Services Contest Finale – Night of Innovations 2008.

More than 200 people – contest participants and supporters, investors, online marketers, web 2.0 fans and zanoxees – excitingly awaited the announcement of the winners. Servtag, Webtrekk and triboo were the lucky ones!

In a relaxed atmosphere people talked not only about the 3 winning teams but enjoyed drinks and snacks along with the ‘RoboCup’, a live soccer performance by Freie Universität robots.

For more details on the top 10 contest teams and the contest itself visit our Web Services blog.

Here some impressions from the event:

Join us for a night of innovation and networking at the zanox GAP Campus on 24th October 2008 starting at 19:30h.

Celebrate the winners of the 1 Million Euro Web Services contest together with investors, innovators and opinion leaders from the web 2.0 and online marketing scene. Learn more about the latest applications and watch robots play soccer.

For more information and registration click here.

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