Slides from the inaugural Web Monday Silicon Valley, held on June 12, 2006 in Mountain View, California (USA). Web Monday is an informal gathering in and around Germany on all topics internet: http://www.webmontag.de

1. Web Monday
Silicon Valley
Mountain View, CA — June 12, 2006

2. Preface
• 05/16/2005: Tim moves to San Jose, CA
• Woah! Tons of cool stuff going on!
• 11/04/2005: First visit to Germany after 6
months of absorbing life in the SF Bay Area
• So... what’s happening in Germany? Hello?!
• 11/07/2005: Web Monday #1 (inspired by
Wiki Wednesday, Barcamp and the like)

3. About
• Informal meetup in Germany on all topics
web 2.0 (in the broadest sense)
• Brings together users, developers, web
pioneers, researcher, entrepreneurs,VCs etc.
• Self-organized via the wiki
• Open, flexible, free...
• Sharing, learning, networking...

4. Purpose
• Better connect the German web 2.0 scene
• Improve transatlantic bridging (especially
between Germany and Silicon Valley)
• Help bring some of those good Silicon Valley
vibes to Germany

5. Stats: meetings
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
11/05 12/05 1/06 2/06 3/06 4/06 5/06
# of meetings per month

6. Stats: content
• Ca. 75 demos or presentations total
• Startups present: Plazes, Qype, Mabber,
Hitflip, Studiverzeichnis, Fleavent, Spreadshirt
• Topics: AJAX, DeepaMehta, Semantic Web,
Ruby on Rails, podcasting, Webkrauts,
Antisocial JavaScript and XML,Venture Kung-
fu, e-learning, creative commons, Google
Epic, accessibility, tagging/contextizing etc.

7. Stats: cities
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
11/05 12/05 1/06 2/06 3/06 4/06 5/06
Total # of cities

8. Stats: cities II
• Available in: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich,
Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig,
Bielefeld, Karlsruhe
• This just in: Silicon Valley, Dresden
• Coming soon: Bremen, Münster, Gießen,
Second Life

9. Stats: wiki activity
1,250
1,000
750
500
250
0
11/05 12/05 1/06 2/06 3/06 4/05 5/06
# wiki edits per month

10. Stats: tagging
• 424 pictures on Flickr
• 815 blog posts on Technorati
• 538 links on del.icio.us
• 959 results on Google search

11. Stats: user involvement
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
1x 2x 3x 4x 5x or more
# of people who have participated n amount of times (attendee, maybe or audience)

12. What’s next?
• Grow?
• Connect?
• Get better?
• Go Germany!

13. Thank you.
Dankeschön.