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Second half of May will be quite busy for us with many conferences. We’re trying to visit as many as possible to have a chance to meet you and see what other innovative people in the industry are doing.

Here is a short list of them, in order of happening:

NT Konferenca, Portorož

Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose

Thinking Digital, Newcastle

BarCamp NorthEast, Newcastle

@Media 2008, London

BarCamp London 4, London

European Sematic Web Conference, Tenerife

(drop a note to jure@zemanta.com to arrange a meetup or follow our twitter.com/zemanta for instant notifications)

Image via WikipediaOn friday we had a pleasure to present Zemanta at Web.start conference in Zagreb.

What surprised me was the number of participants. There were 250 people there. Eventually I got the feeling that more Slovenian web companies were there than they are at Slovenian conferences.

The moto of the conference was venture capital in Southeastern Europe. Nothing new was said except for the honest truth that regional VCs like copycats. Copycats are a safe bet and easy to understand.

Zemanta on the other hand tries to do something really innovative. Something that hasn’t really been tried before. Our presentation was the last one, but I still managed to get people excited. Let’s see how many of them start to use Zemanta while blogging. How many times do you have to hear how good Zemanta is before you start using it?