Web.Start is the first conference in Southeastern Europe focused exclusively on Web applications and Web startups. The conference takes place on May 17-18th, 2007, in Zagreb, Croatia. The conference is being organized by the Croatian Association of software and online entrepreneurs Initium.

This is the event I would like to attend, but I’m already booked to be in Vienna, Austria as a ICT Jury Member for Balkan Case Challenge Competition. Now that information is doubling every 2nd day, the events seems to be going that way too. I like the initiative of Web Conference in South East Europe. If its going to continue I can easily say: See you next year.

Therefore, I would like to give some small recommendations to the organizers:
1) Start spreading the words in Blogosphere at least 6 months before the event.

2) Blog more about the event, i like the Joel Spolsky video, but your blog has to be much richer. Its nothing shame if you also invite Jason Calacanis and if he cant make it to update in blog that he is not coming, at least we know u gave a try.

3) Participants can also contribute writing in their blogs, so participants link is much more what is web about than trying to stay corporate business conference style. In some events I go after I see that my acquaintances are attending too.

4) Do a live coverage as it happens, by using life stream services and web services such as Flickr, Youtube and Wiki’s.

See you next year.

Mike Arrington called me two days ago on my private cell phone in relation to my previous post regarding the Technology Usage in SEE. Following our phone conversation he invited to give me a free ticket for Web 2.0, I checked the dates and on that time I will be out of country going to a private vacation, so i rejected the offer. Mike also asked me if i have any idea about what he should do with this ticket and I recommended him to let people write about the negative side of TechCrunch.com

Now the post came up and I got angry because Mike Arrington again stole MY IDEA as he stole many ideas from other people around the blogosphere. TechCrunch is about gossips and attacks and Michael Arrington stealing ideas, TechCrunch is about Web 2.0 and Michael Arrington stealing ideas, TechCrunch is about Innovation and again Mike Arrington stealing ideas. TechCrunch is about entrepreneurship and Mike Arrington stealing ideas.

So what is TechCrunch about?

This is what just everyone would like to have in their houses.

I did a small research on the The Networked Readiness Index Rankings to see where does south east European countries are indexed on using technology. The report was delivered lately by World Economic Forum judging countries who integrated technology into business and helped developed an infrastructure on their countries, usage of technology in innovation, culture and leadership.

The Networked Readiness Index 2006–2007 rankings
Here is the 2006-2007 top-10 technology countries: (2005 ranking)
1: Denmark (3)
2: Sweden (8)
3: Singapore (2)
4: Finland (5)
5: Switzerland (9)
6: Netherlands (12)
7: US (1)
8: Iceland (4)
9: UK (10)
10: Norway (13)

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South East European Countries:
30. Slovenia (35)
46. Croatia (57)
55. Romania (58)
72. Bulgaria (64)
74. Serbia and Montenegro (80)
81. Macedonia (81)
89. Bosnia and Herzegovina (97)
92. Moldova (94)
107. Albania (106)
*Kosovo is not included separately in the statistics

During March 2007 group of entrepreneurs, researchers, developers and designers helped me and worked hard to put the site back on its form with many new features on it.

Now this blog will mainly cover stories about web 2.0, technology, mobile, new media, entrepreneurship and education on south east europe region focusing countries: Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania.

On this occasion I would like to thank Kushtrim Sogojeva, Alban Gerguri, Hajre Hyseni, Mentor Pacarada, Kushtrim Dragusha and all others who helped during this process.

Happy Relaunch

I came back from LIFT Conference 2007, Geneva 7-9 February 2007. I had an opportunity to meet new people, new idea, new challenges and new technologies. Wasn’t it what is LIFT about? Yes.

I will post some more lift notes in following days, also i have to copy paste stories from Berlin and Copenhagen this year.

CORDIS, the EU’s official information service on research, technological development and innovation, has launched a new service supporting information and communication technologies (ICT) research under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/

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We all remember Pac-Man game as our favorite game in early ages. Here is what Wim van Eck came with his graduation project “Animal Controlled Computer Games”

Animal Controlled Computer Games is the graduation project from Wim van Eck, In his project he build a Pacman game, in that the player can play Pacman against real crickets, that controls the ghosts in the Pacman maze. By doing this he analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of real-time behaviour of live animals in comparison to behavior-generating code in computer games.