On October 13 and 14 the conference “Web 2.0 Kongress Hamburg” took place. Amazee was one of 10 startups nominated for the Startup Award 2008, which is why I went to Hamburg on Monday morning, attended the conference and pitched at the Startup Award 2008.
Younect.de – a platform that matches employers and apprentices – won the award. Congratulations! Amazee was the runner-up with only two votes less and made the second place. Mikestar – an online karaoke platoform – made the third place. The other nominated startups were Actindo, Allyve, Geoflags, Platool, MeinProf, MyJobNextDoor and Telewebber.
On the second conference day I attended a very interesting session by Ibrahim “Ibo” Evsan, Co-founder and CTO of
sevenload. He speech had the title “fixation code” and addressed the changing relationship between humans and machines and what that means for us as a society. People are more and more developing a fixation or rather addiction to mobile devices and information.
He talked about his life as a digital native, addicted to the internet and explained that the loss of his Macbook a while ago resulted in physical pain from this virtual amputation. If the last thing you do is take your I-Phone or Blackberry to bed to check your mails one last time before the long night starts, you definitely are addicted. Trying to negate this fact or trying to cover up for some of your late night mail-checking activities are even more of a proof. He wrote a
whole essay about this topic you can read
here on his blog (only in German).
Why am I writing about this? Because he is totally right and I see it with myself! I will not do it the cold-turkey way, but start my therapy with regular 2-hours-internet-abstinences. Maybe.
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gratulier!