A message on the German O’Reilly community blog indicates that the Web 2.0 Expo Europe, an annual event held in Berlin, Germany, has been suspended for this year in the face of the worst economic downturn in decades. (translated version here) The event, co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, had been running for only two years.
Web 2.0 Expo Europe was widely known as an outstanding event for the European tech community with a host of excellent speakers, but like many companies O’Reilly and TechWeb are feeling the sting of the declining economy and are being forced to make difficult decisions. Obviously, this is bad news for European entrepreneurs and startups.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Damn! Web Expo-1 was great. I found many interesting information there. I was even including that information in a lot of rewarded essays, which i wrote. So I'm really upset that they cancelled Web Expo-2. I hope they will still make it. Maybe late, maybe in a year or more. But it can't end so stupid. A lot of people need it, so...
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