2.0 Made in Europe

Categories: Business, Social Web

European web market is catching up with the US.

According to what Dawn Patrol says, what’s enabling the European regions to start becoming low risk environments to do high risk things in, is the ascension of a class of entrepreneurs that have had success.

The Skype guys are only the most obvious, but says Hans Peter Brondmo, founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Plum (and a native of Norway) “There is at least one generation now of technology entrepreneurs in Europe, and some very visible successes (read Dawn’s post here).

Tech Crunch reported: “Luxembourg-based Wikio, Europe’s best hope against Digg, Google News and Technorati (it is sort of a mashup of all three), has closed a €4 million ($5.3 million) Series A round of financing.”

The.Next.Net published about a new European project too with a post dedicated to Babelgum a Joost Competitor from Italy.

The ’2.0 Made in Europe List’ also includes names like Last.fm, FON, Xing and many others…

Now it seems that the things are speeding up so I’m starting to wonder what’s coming up next?!

Exciting times here in Europe!

Andrea

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  • Tuomo Turja

    Europa’s strenght is in it’s common values of social security, equality and ecologically sound welfare. No wonder why skype or linux come from here and many sort of open source development like moodle has been developed here further.

    We do have a good basis for web 2.0 progress. I wis we do not build any more restrictions for open source and free exchange of innovation here. We europeans must trust on ethics of business and see far to the future.

  • Stefan

    Have you guys checked out http://www.viewmy.tv yet? awesome new iptv site! way better than joost or babel..

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