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I had the pleasure of attending The Next Web Conference held in Amsterdam at the Tushinski Cinema in. It was thoroughly inspiring to have so many like minded people talking about where the web is going. It helped me realize that I should take my own startup idea full steam ahead, especially because I didn’t even hear the word travel mentioned all day! The highlights of the conference for me were:

1. Saul Klein from Index Ventures talking about funding opportunities for startup’s in Europe. He was an angel investor in last.fm that sold this past week for 280 million.

2. Tariq Krim from Netvibes. He spoke about the different widget platforms i.e. Facebook, iGoogle and Netvibes and how he sees things converging on an open standard for widgets. It really made me think that it may be high time for me to stop thinking of the web in terms of pages!

3. Rod Beckstrom gave a more philosophical talk about Decentralization on the web and how it relates to Starfish ;-). Very sharp talk, I will definitely check out his book, when I get a chance.