One of the perks of living in such a big city as London are all the interesting events a Web developer/entrepreneur can easily visit. Even if you do not live there, it is still worth timing your visit so you can visit them.
MiniBar occurs monthly where a number of startups pitch their ideas to the visiting public, with general theme towards Web entrepreneurs. Every presenting company gets asked the hardest question: how do you make money?
Event is free, but registration is required at their homepage.
Wiki Wednesdays are also monthly event, this time, as you might have guessed, oriented towards people who use and are passionate about Wiki’s. Even though a lot of participants are involved with Wikipedia, there is also a lot of buzz around usage of wikis in corporations and in other projects. Event is free, but registration is required in their wiki, that can be found through their portal.
London OpenCoffee Meetup, is a weekly event for anyone more interested in entrepreneurial side of Online and Web business. There are all kinds of visitors there, from VC’s to developers or just people who are interested in breaking into this field or looking for someone to help them. Drinking coffee on top of Waterstones, Londons biggest book store and chatting with like minded people is also a great way to start a Thursday morning. Event is free, with no registration required. They also have a homepage and a general page of OpenCoffee Club movement.
Dorkbot London is a monthly meeting of people who do interesting things with electricity, but more precisely electronic. It involves artists, engineers, designers and just about everyone who is passionate about all things electric.
Event is free, but sometimes registration is required, so check their dorkbot wiki.
Mashup* event is a monthly, a bit more commercially oriented event where startups once again present their creations to interested public. Since it is not free, there is a bit smaller crowd there so it might be easier to actually discuss your big idea.
Entry is 35£, with required registration at the event homepage.
These three months that I worked intesively with Zemanta felt a lot similiar to what, I imagined, in pre-.com crash times was. Shipping your core team to distant, yet cool place; provide insane amounts of yaffa cakes and cedevita, accompanied with either great in-house cooking or take-aways. The whole thing is then well rounded with some (for now) quiet hyping and talking to different potential investors and users at different conferences and trade shows.
Because of all this, and my overall tendency to like all Web 2.0-ish, I found the following music video from Richter Scales especially funny; at the same time I’m also hoping that we can sustain this hype for a while since I really think that the tech that it’s currently in the labs should be shown to the world and not lost due to “bubble” bursting.
This weekend I will be visiting Evento Blog España conference in Seville, Spain to show Zemanta ’s technology to local bloggers and gather feedback. If you are at the conference or live nearby and would like to see some automatic contextual matching for your blog, drop me a mail at jure - at - zemanta.com.
Living at Zemanta HQ in London is always a fun event. A couple weeks ago we went online shopping for groceries. These are a couple of photos that happened during this process. Even though it was quite fun, we since decided that is much better for our recreation if we bring things ourselves from nearby supermarket.
So Web 2.0 Expo Berlin happened with a bit of puff and made a nice little dent into European Web 2.0 scene. Despite my early doubts it turned out that it was actually one of the best tech conferences I was at. Even their social network CrowdWine almost worked it. Since the conference venue was so big it was actually hard to find people, which meant that it would be easier to just call them on mobile phone then trying to use Twitter or e-mail.
I managed to talk to quite a few people about our upcoming Zemanta Wordpress plugin and it got a lot of fabulous feedback and brainstorming ideas. The fact that many wanted to get into early beta meant that we might have something going here. We also showed for the first time to the camera how our plugin works, to Jean Michel Billaut, prominent French blogger and Journalist. You can watch the whole video at his blog.
These three months that I worked intesively with 
This weekend I will be visiting 
