09May2008
Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, 2008
We attended our first Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on April 22-25 this year. The conference had some 10.000 visitors and a lot of exhibitors and sessions. In that sense it was a bit different from some of the European conferences such as LIFT, Plugg and The Next Web that we’ve been to this year that host only a few hundred visitors. The Web 2.0 conference in SF also had more large companies (Nokia, Amazon web services, Adobe, Google etc.) exhibiting their offering, whereas the previously mentioned conferences (ok, maybe LIFT excluded) were almost 100% startups.
Conferences are great for meeting people and this was no exception. We met a lot of people from the blogging scene like Robert Scoble, Mashable’s Kristen Nicole (great party guys 
, Venture Beat, GigaOM and of course the Next Web guys, who seem to be everywhere wearing their white suits.
There were a whole bunch of Finnish startups at the expo: Floobs, Xihalife and MoiPal to name a few we hooked up with. On Monday night before the conference, there was even a Finnish night at a restaurant called Foreign Cinema (they show foreign movies) with some media, some locals and some ex-Europeans now working in San Francisco. Jyri from Jaiku/Google was even nice enough to show us around Googleplex. As a sidenote and a bit of an advert for our Finnish friends, we used Scred to record our expenses throughout the trip, an incredibly useful mobile app.
We also got to meet people from some San Francisco based travel startups, like Elliot from travel review meta search site UpTake and Gregg and Scott, the founders of trip itinerary organizer TripIt (pic on the left), that has done quite well.
All in all, the trip was a success, San Francisco was mostly sunny and the Wi-Fi didn’t totally suck. We’ll be back next year! Meanwhile, be sure to check back on our blog and see how we are doing on our twitter feed.
We attended our first Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on April 22-25 this year. The conference had some 10.000 visitors and a lot of exhibitors and sessions. In that sense it was a bit different from some of the European conferences such as LIFT, Plugg and The Next Web that we’ve been to this year that host only a few hundred visitors. The Web 2.0 conference in SF also had more large companies (Nokia, Amazon web services, Adobe, Google etc.) exhibiting their offering, whereas the previously mentioned conferences (ok, maybe LIFT excluded) were almost 100% startups.
Conferences are great for meeting people and this was no exception. We met a lot of people from the blogging scene like Robert Scoble, Mashable’s Kristen Nicole (great party guys , Venture Beat, GigaOM and of course the Next Web guys, who seem to be everywhere wearing their white suits.
There were a whole bunch of Finnish startups at the expo: Floobs, Xihalife and MoiPal to name a few we hooked up with. On Monday night before the conference, there was even a Finnish night at a restaurant called Foreign Cinema (they show foreign movies) with some media, some locals and some ex-Europeans now working in San Francisco. Jyri from Jaiku/Google was even nice enough to show us around Googleplex. As a sidenote and a bit of an advert for our Finnish friends, we used Scred to record our expenses throughout the trip, an incredibly useful mobile app.
We also got to meet people from some San Francisco based travel startups, like Elliot from travel review meta search site UpTake and Gregg and Scott, the founders of trip itinerary organizer TripIt (pic on the left), that has done quite well.
All in all, the trip was a success, San Francisco was mostly sunny and the Wi-Fi didn’t totally suck. We’ll be back next year! Meanwhile, be sure to check back on our blog and see how we are doing on our twitter feed.
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