During last week we gave multiple interviews. Here is the list:

• GameBizz:

Link:

• Michael Reuter (CEO von YiGG)

• Microsoft Deutschland
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 121, Seite R 6 (not online available)

Today, I participated at the first Web Montag in Augsburg, my home town. About 35 web developer, designer and business people joined the event at the Capitol. The event was organized by WEKA – thanks to the organizers! The next Web Montag will be held in March and again organized by WEKA.

Despite the strong interest for the first Web Montag in Augsburg, I was the only one presenting at the event. My presentation was about social games and virtual goods. Some people from the audience asked me for the slides. So here they are:

Here is a list of events we will participate as speaker or audience in 2009:

Web Montag, Augsburg, 26. January

• Martin Szugat: Virtuelle Güter und Social Gaming

Web Montag, Munich, 9. February

• (Hm, do not know yet whether to repeat my session from the Web Montag Augsburg)

Challenges and Opportunities 2009, Munich, 18. February

BASTA, Darmstadt, 23-27. February

• Sebastian Schmitt: Stolpersteine in Silverlight 2.0
• André Wussow: Silverlight 2 – Warum muss Visual Basic im Firefox-Browser laufen?
• Martin Szugat: XML in der Praxis und in .NET

Webinale, Berlin, 25-27. May

• André Wussow: Mobile Tagging
• Martin Szugat: virtuelle Güter – reale Gewinne
• Martin Szugat: Startup Day

Meet you offline in 2009 ;) Until then, have a good time!

Martin

Microsoft published the presentations from the Xtopia conference as online videos today. Here is the online video from my presentation about making money with virtual goods in social communities:

“In den USA beläuft sich der Umsatz mit virtuellen Gütern bereits auf über eine Milliarde Dollar, dann muss in Deutschland doch auch Geld damit zu verdienen sein“ erläutert Martin Szugat seine Motivation für SnipClip.com. Zusammen mit zwei Freunden gründete er SnipClip.com und konnte jüngst die ersten Startup-Preise sammeln. Social Communities erfreuen sich immer größerer Beliebtheit und daher müssen sich nach Meinung von Martin Szugat alle Händler und Marken mit ihnen auseinander setzen. „Wenn wir unsere digitalen Produkte verkaufen wollen, müssen wir in die Social Communities, dort sind unsere Kunden. Außerdem setzen wir auf die Sammelleidenschaft der Deutschen.“, Im Rahmen der Microsoft Gründerinitiative wird SnipClip.com uns ihre Lösung für den „realen“ Vertrieb von virtuellen Gütern auf der Social Community Plattform Facebook zeigen.

“unternimm was.”- die Microsoft Gründerinitiative: Startup3: SnipClip.net – Geld verdienen mit virtual goods und social communities

The introduction is by Carsten Rudolph, head of the “Unternimm was”. initiative of Microsoft. “Unternimm was.” supports startups not only in a technical way, what most people would expect, but also in business development. So thanks Carsten for your support!

For our German readers: here is the abstract for my presentation at the Webinale 09 conference:

Virtuelle Güter – reale Gewinne

Virtuelle Güter kennen wir nur aus virtuellen Welten und Online-Spielen. Doch auch in webbasierten Communities entfalten virtuelle Güter ihre Funktion als soziales Statussymbol und bescheren den Community-Betreibern nicht nur erstaunliche Einnahmen, sondern binden gleichzeitig die Nutzer an deren Website. Der Vortrag stellt erfolgreiche Beispiele von virtuellen Gütern in Social Networks vor, erklärt die Grundlagen virtueller Ökonomien und beleuchtet die Erfolgsfaktoren von derartigen Geschäftsmodellen.

The conference takes place in Berlin during May, 25 until 27.

I’m in Berlin – once again. This time I attended a workshop from the VDI (yesterday; it was great!) and today I visited the Startup Lounge. I’m a little bit disappointed: there were just six or so investors, mainly venture capital companies, but no business angels. The sessions weren’t exciting either. However, there was one session that was inspiring and very entertaining. Titus, the sixty year old founder and head of Titus, a famous Skater company, told his life story. It was very encouraging.

Here is a picture of me at the Startup Lounge together with Stephan from sofatutor, taken by Alexander from Deutsche Startups:

Have a good time!

Here is my presentation from the Xtopia 2008 conference: 

Thanks to all participants for your attention and your questions!

Here it is, our interview with Anke from the German dot.net magazin at the BASTA! conference about Silverlight in the Social Web and, of course, about SnipClip:

“The Best of Best Practices” is the slogan of the upcoming BASTA conference. The conference website shows a trailer with scenes from the last BASTA conference. André and I presented our application there and we were also interviewed. So take a look (full interview is coming soon):

At the Web 2.0 Expo I met Viktoria from TiburonTV. TiburonTV is a web TV station about founders and entrepreneurs. Viktoria did an interview with me about SnipClip. Have a look by yourself:

Watch Martin Szugat – SnipClip: Panini collections turned virtual @ Web 2.0 Expo Europe in News Online |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com