I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the SXSW podcast & videocast is among the hottest content you can put on your media-player at this time of the year! subscribe now, content will trickle in over time!
hanging out on the 31st floor of the Millenium-Tower, where the first installment of ThinkAloud Vienna tries to establish a forum for the austrian web2.0- & social media-industry…(photos on flickr)
update: check out two of the austrian web-apps we’ve seen demos of today, Tupalo (geo-tagged social network) and System One (enterprise-level wiki & collaboration), both unique in their own way.
like last year, (almost) all the talks & slides from the Future of Web Apps have been published by Carson Systems. I’ve setup an RSS-feed for those who don’t want to go through the hassle of downloading every single file. enjoy!
seems like fowa got me hooked on tech-conferences - so why not go to amsterdam on june 1st? The Next Web features Marc Canter, Jason Calacanis and Felix Petersen (founder & CEO of plazes.com).
the future of web apps 2007 is going down in little less than 2 weeks (feb. 20th-22nd), and I’m going to visit London together with my company like last year. anybody else?
I’m a bit late, but I just discovered the live-video feed of Le Web 3, currently taking place in Paris. upcoming talks for the next hours include panels like “The Dragon’s web: what can we learn from Internet in China?” or “Best startups of LeWeb3″ (sponsored by TechCrunch). tune in until 19.00 CET!
update: Tom Morris has some coverage…
it’s probably a bit early to mention, but I just discovered that there’ll be a BarCamp in Carinthia (Austria) in February 2007. nice to see this virus spreading over Austria… 
while O’Reilly’s web 2.0 summit is almost over, PodTech’s John Furrier published a bootlegged video of Eric Schmidt’s keynote given on tuesday:
An overflow crowd waits for the Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 keynote. At $3,500 per conference attendee, and a full plate of sponsors, it looks like they made some serious bank. Speaking of bank, the Google CEO denies rumors of $500 million legal reserve for YouTube, and states that Google will never trap user data.
Michael Arrington gave a comprehensive summary of Launch Pad, the kick-off event giving 13 startups the chance to demo their products to an high-profile audience. contestants included companies like sphere, omnidrive and oDesk.
despite not participating in the summit itself, Riya (formerly known for their face-recognizing image-search engine) managed to do the most-covered product-launch this week: like.com utilizes their technology to find products (currently limited to jewelry, shoes, handbags and watches) based on visual similarity. coverage all over the place.
and finally there’s an interesting sum-up of a talk between John Batelle and Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie on Read/Write Web.
update: Redeye VC links to Mary Meeker’s presentation on the “state of the internet” - 41 slides incredibly stuffed with numbers & stats on business-development on the net.
a very honorable mention goes to Lou Reed, who has been performing on yesterdays post-dinner party, sponsored by AOL (via Webware). bubbly, anyone? 
…update: here’s the video!
Office 2.0, the conference on web-technology and office software taking place in San Francisco on october 11th & 12th, is accompanied by Office 2.0 Podcast Jam - a meta-blog collecting live-blogging around the event, podcasts published by speakers, scheduled chats with conference hosts and presenters as well as audio-content produced by non-attendees - a great resource and a way to contribute for those not able to attend!
Carson Workshops published audio-recordings and (to some extent) pdf-slides of most presentations given at the Future of Web Apps summit in San Francisco a month ago. the podcast-feed includes talks by Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Kevin Rose (Digg), Tantek Celik (Technorati), Evan Williams (Odeo) and many more.
