Tuesday October 21, 2008

Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin

I am just attending the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin.

After more than 17 years of mainly C++ software development, I thought this would be a good opportunity to get more in touch with all this Web 2.0 technologies and products.

I just enjoyed the keynote (which was held AFTER the workshops) from Tim O'Reilly.

After that, six start ups had the opportunity to talk about their new products.

One of them was aka-aki. This is an interesting product, I think. Nothing I would need personally, but I am sure kiddies, teens and students will love it.

It's also interesting from the technology standpoint of view - can use blue tooth, GPS and/or GSM cell information for phone/friend detection.

Aka-aki will launch tomorrow here in Germany, this fall internationally.

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Oct 21 2008, 06:28:24 PM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]

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OpenOffice.org version 3 is available for 1 week now, and was already downloaded more than 3 million times!

And this is only what we can count - it doesn't include torrents and other ways of distributions.

More information and links in this blog.

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Oct 21 2008, 11:16:56 AM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]