We have a new NEXT video platform. It is run by 23 Video from Copenhagen. The Danish start-up celebrates its international rollout this Thursday, October 28th. We're happy to be part of the international launch.
For now we made a selection of the last five years, feel free to check out our past highlights at video.nextconf.eu.
Our complete video archive will of course still be available at sevenload.
On Wednesday, next10 closed its gates. After four years in Hamburg, this year's edition was the first in the German capital. 1385 people finally registered for the show, and more than 100 speakers were on stage.
The programme featured several keynotes given by inspiring, creative and technical savvy pundits, lots of talks by Game Changers and an elaborate discussion of the vibrant App Economy with many of the relevant players on stage for an entire conference day. All that summed up to three parallel, two-day conference tracks.
Many of our speakers, sponsors and partners made news during the conference. Check out the press room for sources and TechCrunch for coverage. Many thanks to all of them, including everyone who spent his hard-earned money for making this possible!
Paul Jozefak wrote a lengthy guest post on TechCrunch about next10, which he concluded as follows:
In summary, I feel my time was well spent in Berlin. The Next10 has established itself and I believe this is one of the events you should attend if in this market in Europe. You can get some great insight into the EU market if you aren't based here by spending a day or two attending.
Thanks Paul, and we'll surely heed your tips for next11.
The whole conference was videotaped, and we'll release the videos on sevenload as soon as post production is done. In the meantime, check out zaplive.tv where the livestream coverage of Track 1 and Track 2 is archived and can be viewed.
The next10 team now takes some rest to recover from the strain of the past weeks. Thanks again to everyone and see you next year in Berlin!
Photo: © André Krüger, boschblog.de. More photos on flickr.
In 2008, we ran the next conference under the motto "get realtime". By hindsight, this seems a bit premature now, as the real-time web is just getting steam. Loïc Le Meur even runs his excellent LeWeb conference with "The Real-Time Web" as the theme this year - a full one and a half years later then next08.
ReadWriteWeb has just published a Primer on the real-time web in three parts (one, two and three, via), written by Ken Fromm. He is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Vivid Studios, one of the first interactive agencies, and Loomia, a recommendation, discovery, and personalisation company.
Ken's Primer is way Twitter-centric in my opinion, but hey - Twitter is the cool kid on the block real-time web. What really has changed since the advent of Twitter in the mass-market, is speed.
Years ago, pages might have been crawled by search engines daily. With the advent of RSS, new posts would flow through the system within hours. With Twitter, the flow is propagated from company to company to user in real time.
If you are interested in the real-time web, you definitely should take some time, shut down Twitter and mail and read his piece.
