Felix Schrader, editor of CREATE OR DIE, interviewed me at the Webinale conference about the Webinale Fanbook and SnipClip’s mobile integration of QR code (twodimensional barcodes). The interview is in German:

Yesterday i spoke about mobile tagging at webinale 09 in BCC, Berlin. It was a very cool session for me with very interested participants and really nice discussions.

So if you want, you can download or watch the slides here (in German):

Don’t forget to check out the corresponding article on create or die with an detailed overview about readers and generators (in German).

If you have further questions or suggestions don’t  hesitate and feel free to contact me at any time. If you’re a webinale visitor don’t forget to check out the really cool Webinale collector’s book and scan up some exhibitors :)

It’s online: our first online collector’s book! We launched it at the Webinale conference in Berlin. Take a look:

Webinale participants visit the exhibitors (e.g.  Adobe, Spreadshirt, SAE institutes, Hanser), scan QR codes (2D barcodes) with their mobile phone and retrieve a collectible for each code. Each completed album takes part in a lottery. Here is a more detailed description (in German).

How you can help us: give us feedback! and re-tweet and re-blog it :) Thanks! And have a good time.

Here is the trailer for next Webinale 2009 conference:

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

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.

The webinale and the Startup Day 2008 was a great success for all participants. So I’m very happy to announce that the webinale and the Startup Day will take place also in 2009 and this time in the heart of Berlin: at Alexanderplatz! The date is 25. until 27. May 2009. As a member of the advisory board I like to invite all readers to actively participate in the composition of these three days. We like to invite:

• artists that present their art at the webinale
• experts on web technologies and trends that share their expertise with the participants
• investors that join the evening party and meet with founders
• companies that sponsor the webinale and/or the Startup Day
• entrepreneurs that share their experience with founders
• and of course developers, designers and founders that want to learn from those.

Please send me a short abstract and spread the message! Thank you and have a good time!

Martin

My presentation at the Webinale conference about how virtual worlds change the web business is now online (only in German language, sorry guys):

Thanks again to all participants, speakers and organizers of the Startup-Day! It was a great event! We had about 40 to 50 listeners. The feedback was primarily positive and the founders joined actively the conversations and discussions.

Have a good time!