weblin is nominated: AlwaysOn Global 250 Competition

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weblin is one of the nominees in this years AlwaysOn Global 250 Competition! This is so great, we are really surprised to be on this bright listing in neigbourhood to freindster, hi5, Gaia Online, JaJah, meebo and so many other famous companies.

"AlwaysOn and KPMG have officially launched this year’s AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies competition. After 6 years of the AlwaysOn 100, we're expanding our flagship list to better represent the burgeoning startup communities from around the globe."

Weblin is nominated in the "Consumer and Entertainment" sector. We are very excited and hope be on the final winners list, which will be announced on July 22.

weblin wins red herring europe 2008

Red Herring today announced the winners of the european top 100.
Zweitgeist with its product weblin is a recipient of this award, given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year. The Award Recognizes the 100 "Most Promising" Companies Driving the Future of Technology.
"This really motivates and encourages us to take weblin to the next level", said Jan Andresen, weblin´s CEO.


We are very happy to get this international recognition. It ist the second international award, the first was business 2.0 naming weblin as one of the top ten "world shaking" business models outside the US, in August 2007.

weblin is a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe

Malta , March 20, 2008 – Red Herring today announced that Zweitgeist GmbH with its social software weblin was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.
“This year’s impressive list of submissions from companies demonstrates Europe’s growing role as a major center of innovation in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology startups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”

Red Herring’s lists of top private companies are an important part of the publication’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay, and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.

Red Herring’s editorial staff rigorously evaluated several hundred private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

Red Herring will honor the Red Herring 100 Europe Finalist companies at its Red Herring Europe 2008 event. Scheduled for April 14-16, at the Westin Dragonara Resort, this intimate, three-day event is themed “The Pursuit of Disruption” and will explore how European firms are leading the charge in many technology sectors, gaining the competitive advantage, and driving entrepreneurial success in ways that create business opportunities for challengers and incumbents alike.


About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.

weblin on the way to LeadAward

weblin is on the way to earn further awards in 2008. weblin is currently nominated for the LeadAwards in the category Online - Web Community of the year. The awards show will take place on March, the 5th, in Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

Lancia Online Press Conference with weblin Avatars

Things were ablaze on Thursday morning on the web page of the Lancia Momo Design Project . At 11.30, the Italian motor makers Lancia (FIAT Group Automobiles S.p.A.) held the world’s first on-line press conference with avatars on its own web page. Participants were real journalists and press representatives from Italy, the conference language was Italian. Together with the presenter, the Lancia hostess Angel presented the web page and the advertising campaign for the Lancia Momo Design Project. It is all about heaven and hell, about angels and the devilishly passionate characteristics of Lancia’s new Ypsilon model. The press representatives had installed the weblin software before the conference and then went on-line with their own avatars. The avatars designed by Lancia especially for the on-line campaign all have a Lancia Ypsilon logo on their t-shirts. Communication is quite simple; you write in your own speech balloon. The web page is, in a manner of speaking, the press conference room. Everyone who enters the web page with a weblin avatar can see and chat to all the others. Weblin connects the virtual world of avatars with real life, with people and with the real content of web pages. I do not wish to predict the worse but who needs an island in Second Life when much more is possible in the real Internet so much more easily?

Weblin is noted on the shortlist “Best social innovation” of the futureaward

The futureaward lists weblin on its shortlist published May 25th, see zukunftsaward.com for further information.

More than 100 applications were received and the organizer was amazed about the variety of new ideas. Below the candidates were big names as Deutsche Post AG, power supplier EnBW and the Hotel Vierjahreszeiten (four seasons). The jury said it was difficult to find the four laureates in the categories: best product innovation, best service innovation, best social innovation and best prototype.

The laureates will be announced on the 12th of June on the “Future Award 2007” within the Futurecongress in Kronberg/Ts.

Award: zweitgeist is awarded special prize by Baden-Württemberg for the most innovative founder concept

zweitgeist GmbH from Karlsruhe has been awarded the CyberOne Award 2007. At the ninth award ceremony, the original weblin software company received the special prize for the most innovative founder concept from Minister-President Günther Oettinger in the name of the technology network Baden-Württemberg: Connected (bwcon). “The jury was especially impressed by the new entertainment and advertising format for the Internet. The software works on any web page without the involvement of the web page operator”, was the comment of the jury members when awarding the prize to zweitgeist GmbH.

Federal Ministry of Economics awards prize to zweitgeist

Outstanding award for zweitgeist GmbH: on the occasion of the Founder Congress Multimedia 2007 in Berlin on 6th March, the start-up company received the prize for the lighthouse project of the High-Tech Gründerfonds (Founder Fund) in the category multimedia from parliamentary state secretary Dagmar Wöhrl. Following the “Innovation Prize Web 2.0″ from the State of Baden-Wurttemberg in the category “Digital Life”, this was already the second award for zweitgeist in the last six months.

zweitgeist wins Innovation Prize Web 2.0 in the category Digital Life

zweitgeist wins the Innovation Prize Web 2.0 in category 2: “Digital Life - new forms of social interaction in the second generation Web”. The prize was awarded on the occasion of the doIT Congress on 16th November in Freiburg.

The “Innovation Prize Web 2.0 is awarded by the MFG for successful second generation Internet applications. In the category “Digital Life”, focus was on new forms of interaction, individual participation possibilities and the degree of innovation. The MFG Baden-Wurttemberg held the competition for the first time in the course of the project “Innovation Programme Web 2.0″. The award is given to innovative, next generation Internet applications from Baden-Wurttemberg. zweitgeist, the alter ego which is visible on every web page, succeeded in convincing the jury in category 2: Digital Life - new forms of social interaction in the second generation Web. The zweitgeist software provides a new method of communication across all web pages.