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In spirit of the recent women2follow OR womentofollow (and also because today is followfriday) I give you “101 english tweeting Women to follow from Europe”. :)

Would you like to be listed as well? Only requirement is that you live in Europe, tweet 98% in english and don’t have a protected profile. Leave your twitter-url in the comments (and if your profile does not say which country you are from, please provide that as well).

• Belgium (3)
• Denmark (3)
• France (4)
• Germany (13)
• Ireland (10)
• Israel (3)
• Italy (3)
• Netherlands (2)
• Norway (3)
• Romania (1)
• Spain (2)
• Sweden (1)
• Switzerland (6)
• UK (47)

Please help spread the word:

Belgium

• bnox / Clo Willaerts (1248 followers)
  Marketing Manager IBU at Sanoma Magazines Belgium. …

Update 2009-02-07: Video production manager Rob Getzschman mailed me yesterday about their updated version of the video, correctly titled “Cheesy LinkedIn German video updated” ;) I have included the new version below. The only change is a a new voice over for the small German part, but that already is an improvement. I leave my original notes below for reference, but have replaced the video with the newer version. Also I have added at the bottom a longer link list of German and English links for this topic. You should be able to use Google Translator or alike for easier …

That is the the kind of unpleasant mail you do not want to see in the morning, although it was to be expected. Twitter will cease sending out SMS – that is if you are not living in "Canada, India, and the United States", but even then it gives you an outlook on what to expect for these countries.

You can read the full mail here I have attached the complete mail and put the link on how to receive DM by mail plus some remarks / questions below that. [As by experience from myself and others Twitter does not answer questions if …

Some people think friendfeed is great. And they think of themselves this way:

At FriendFeed, our goal is to make content on the Web more relevant and discoverable using a combination of social mechanisms and innovative technology. This is a big problem, and we’re just getting started. We’ll be continually improving FriendFeed for years to come as our technology, our user base, and the Web grow.

If you are a simple person, that may very well be. As in ‘if you only speak one language’ or ‘do not have a lot of input’ or “nothing to do” or so. Yes, I am grumpy …

Is Twitter going to set up a credit based system for sending / receiving messages? A screen I saw the other day suggests so. It was from my mobile, so I did not react in time to make a copy, but it basically said to me: “Not enough credits to send message”.

At that moment I just saw the error message, but now I think they will be testing that way to monetize soon. It also makes sense now to first increase the user base to a critical mass and to get them addicted, and then find a way to …

When you want to do business with ‘international’ or have an application used by others than just in your language realm, it is not about translating everything for example to German but about the small details which one frequently does not know about and makes mistakes in.

Today: The separators comma and point for numbers.

As you know, I like conferences because they are usually the easiest way to get to know people. As such I was interested to see that there are some search oriented conferences coming to Germany (I am an Analytics and Logfile addict of course), and had …

If you heard me rant in the past, I am happy to announce that those German’s are slowly getting there. ;)

Three very different events, but all of them “want” international speakers and attendees.

If you plan to attend the event in Berlin or Hamburg, I suggest you try to add more time to your visit, either to connect with the local (startup) scene and or attend additional socializing events.

As all of these events mean travel for most attendees, there is a tendency to start the evening before the event. (Hanover is a different beast, and if you want to …

It now has been nearly 5 years that I discovered this blogging thing (after wondering where the hell everybody had gone from Usenet), and it was my start into the English sphere after a “decade of denial”. Though I started blogging in German first (hidden in a secret blog to try out if it was something for me), it was the English part which really changed everything for me.

The two most relevant aspects: getting better at the ‘lingua franca’ as well as embracing international exchange not only on the virtual level.

There are many people who do not understand why …

Why Youtube helps selling CDs and DVDs and how the industry still screws that up although they could earn so much money if they only would think about it … New media does not only work for the long tail but for original music – especially for classical music. But the industry still is too stupid to pick up on the trends rising. Customers are are screaming out loud why, how and where they would be willing to spend money.

Over the last weeks, I spend more time than I probably should have listening to classical music. ‘Watchlistening’ to be more …

Short version: web2open website up, communication from twitter to facebook are up, mark the dates in your calendar for week full of events in November and think about submitting a talk / session. Oh yes, and come and have fun with the rest of us.

Special interest? People attending from all over Europe and especially the ones not from Germany or the UK!

And: If you have any kind of connections or contacts to a good venue in Berlin for the Barcamp, please get in touch with me or the organizers!

One of the hardest things these days is setting up a stringent …