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?