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See You Next Week! Details On The Balkans Meetups
I will be rolling through Sofia, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana next week for a series of informal meet-ups. If you’re in those cities, I want you to attend. Here are the details.
Sofia (1.7) – The Roof by eleven – 8PM to 11PM
Belgrade (2.7) – KC Grad – 8PM to 11PM
Zagreb (3.7) – VIP Club – 8PM to 11PM
Ljubljana (5.7) – LP Bar – 8PM to 11PM
Assisting in the planning is Netokracija / Netocratic, the “TechCrunch of Southeast Europe.” They will provide us with locations and more specific timing but as it stands we expect to have some free beer, lots of sunshine, and a great chance to talk about your startup in an informal setting. We’ll also be scouting for Disrupt entrants for Disrupt Europe in October.
If you have a startup to pitch, please submit to Disrupt right now and we’ll talk about your presentation and application when I’m in town. We are still accepting applications for TechCrunch Disrupt Europe and applications to Berlin will be closing shortly. This is a great opportunity to get in front of a TechCrunch staffer before the event.
These will be informal meetups where I’ll talk a little bit about TechCrunch and getting the attention of media outside your own country and we can talk startups, entrepreneurship, and funding all night long.
To RSVP for Sofia on July 1 click here. Co-hosted by Netokracija / Netocratic & Eleven
To RSVP for Belgrade on July 2 click here. Hosted by Netokracija / Netocratic.
To RSVP for Zagreb on July 3 click here. Hosted by Netokracija / Netocratic.
To RSVP for Ljubljana on July 5 click here. Hosted by Netokracija / Netocratic.
Want to pitch at the event? We’ll be holding a mini pitch-off at each event and would love you to present. Please fill out the form below.
Interested in sponsoring the event? Please contact organizer Ivan Brezak Brkan, head of MemeMedia, directly. We’ll have much more information soon, but until then RSVP and get your product ready for our Southeast Euro Trip!
Special thanks to our general sponsors HT group and hub:raum – a leading telecom startup accelerator for Central and Eastern Europe. Special thanks to our main sponsor, the .me domain..
Office 365 Is Now A Programmable Service For Rapid App Delivery
Microsoft is offering new capabilities for building business apps with Office 365 and Windows Azure — part of a larger effort to offer services that can leverage its cloud environment for rapid build out.
Rapid delivery was one of the themes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed on Wdnesday, the first day at the Build conference. On Thursday, Microsoft showed how Windows Azure can be leveraged and turn Office 365 into a programmable service for quickly integrating apps and managing websites. The effort is reminiscent of Google’s work in integrating Google Apps with third-party services.
For example, Microsoft did a demo showing how Visual Studio, as Michael Miller of PC Mag points out, can be used to build a hiring application that “leverages Office 365 features such as documents and presence information.”
The keynotes and demos on Thursday were all about the cloud with an emphasis on the enterprise. Satya Nadella is president server and tools division. He gave the keynote and followed it with demos that showed new Visual Studio capabilities, auto-scaling, and how BizTalk can be used to integrate on-premise software with SaaS environments. There were also some looks at data services but not as much as I expected to see, considering the strong offerings from Google and AWS.
Microsoft’s direction is right. The company is pushing Office 365 in Windows Azure. It reflects a deeper emphasis on the Azure infrastructure but also its interest in marketing how it can be used as a platform for developing web sites and apps across the cloud and enterprise environments.
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