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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.

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