The Web Mondays in Zurich are really becoming a capacity test for startup offices: Last night about seventy Web worker, Upstarts and young entrepreneurs attended the 13th installment of Zurich's most important meetup for small Internet-related business. However, the masses were well accomodated by the still fairly new Wuala offices (thanks again for hosting!)

The presenters, Hyperweek of Geneva as well as iMusicianDigital and Oskope from Zurich, who also provided snacks and drinks, used their moment in the spotlight well to introduce their products. Raphaël Briner presented the Community solutions provider Hyperweek with a shot of extravaganza, while Shigs Amemiya of iMusicianDigital gave a brief, but enlightening overview over the history of digital music. Their service provides distribution of digital music files to many online stores for musicians. The presentations part was rounded of by a short introduction of the image search engine Oskope by Alain Leclerc.

Before and afterwards the really nice Wuala office was bustling with chitchat of the startuppers. It's been a good night once more to exchange and catch up with everybody. And with the attendee numbers being high as they are, it seems like the Web Monday is definitely here to stay. The next event will soon be set up, of course you will hear of it on Amazee.

If you have blogged about the event or taken pictures, feel free to drop a link in the comments and of course on the project wall! You can find a couple of pictures on our flickr site as well.

As most of our blog readers will know, Amazee is working on a major redesign (startpage, dashboard, project setup). Yesterday night we presented the first prototype to our UX Chuchi colleagues. And if you've been at an UX Chuchi before, you'll know: the feedback round was toughly instructive and after three hours of sweatshop style scrutinization we had a bag full of condensed change requests. A big thank you to all collaborators - again I'm amazed how much value the UX Chuchi has brought to our product development - bit of a UX Gucci indeed (quotation Rupert). Find some pics over here

Alright, back from Basel we are! Saturday saw a great second StartupCamp Switzerland with almost 150 participants and great opportunities to exchange knowledge and network! I don't even know where to start, so I'll keep it short and give my impressions.

First of all I'd like to express my gratitude towards those who organized the event – even though one of them, Dania, usually sits right across from me. All of the organizational committee have done an outstanding job once again. This is a kind of Camp where nothing is missing: There was food, drink, Internet, and even heating!

As far as the conference itself is concerned, I was once more struck by the grand array of different subjects in the 20 sessions. Although five sessions in one day are much to take in, it didn't seem to be too much. The sessions I visited were all very interesting, most presenters seemed to come well prepared. This seems to be a general notion as I have only read one or two Tweets all Saturday that were criticizing the quality of a session – fair enough!

It was good to see people again and catch up and of course to see new hot ideas. This year's stars were undoubtedly My Swiss Chocolate, two very nice Gentlemen who will come out of closed Beta with their homemade chocolate soon! I can tell you, I have done some thorough Beta testing!

So, with Poken being the brow-raiser last year, will this be a recurring theme? Each StartupCamp bears a star company? It'll be exciting to see who it might be next year. Speaking of which: If there will be another StartupCamp Switzerland I can't say, and the organizers probably haven't talked about it yet. But I can hardly imagine there will not be one.

If you'd like to keep discussing, you can do so via Twitter – make sure you use the #scs10 tag! For pictures of the Camp and the Apéro afterwards in a literally obscure wine cellar, check out this flickr pool! If you are on flickr, feel free to drop your pics there. Thumbs up to Michael and Corsin for their great shots! (Oh, and don't miss this arty shot by @knowLED!)

Here's a surely incomplete collection of blog posts about and presentations from the Camp: My Swiss Chocolate (in German), Swiss Startups (also in German) and here's Corsin's entry. He has also compiled the Startups present in a nice list (nice because Amazee is on top, of course!)

Daniel of La Table D'Hôte – being the gourmet he is – has interviewed Sven of My Swiss Chocolate, you can find the little clip here. This one's in Swiss German. Toni, Dorian and Patrice of Memonic have uploaded their presentation "22 random hints for startups" here. And there's even an audiofile of this here.

If you are interested in picking up leads to interesting UX readings, Roland has compiled them in his Posterous niche. If you have anything to add to this list, feel free to drop a link in the comments! And please also tell us about your experiences!

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Sorry, Jan, how could I forget your blog entry at Startwerk? This one's in German also!

Today saw the second installment of the Social Media Gipfel (Social Media Summit) in Zurich. Despite the early hour – the event started at 7:30 in the morning, resulting in one of the presenters not showing up because he thought it'd be in the evening – the café at the NZZ headquarters was well filled with people from the Web/Marketing biz.

On today's agenda: A short talk about Amnesty International's campaign of solidarity with two Swissmen incarcerated in Libya, and a battle of the location-based Social Media services: Gowalla vs. Foursquare.

While Daniel Graf of AI Switzerland pointed out much of what we heard on other occasions (like the first Social Media Gipfel or the last Politforelle): Social Media campaigns need a lot of dedication and can't be done in passing-by. And: there is very little power without traditional and/or established mainstream media outlets.

Daniel revealed that most of the traffic directed toward the campaign's Website was generated through a report on 20Minuten.ch, one of the biggest news websites in Switzerland. His further experiences: Taking a campaign to Facebook definitely requires a strategy, and, as always: communication is key. There are no office hours!

During the second half of the morning, two users, Pixelfreund aka Ralph Hutter (find his presentation here) and Peter Hogenkamp introduced two Social Media services which work location-based: Gowalla and Foursquare. Both are still in very early stages of public awareness and experiences are mixed.

Both made it clear in their fresh and funny presentations that both applications are mostly for play at the moment with more serious usage expected in the future. Ralph gave a probably involuntary outlook into this with his utterance that with Gowalla the user collects digital stamps in a digital passport.

The second Social Media Gipfel proved the concept right, an honest hat tip to Peter Hogenkamp and Marcel Bernet for thinking the event up and organizing it. The next dates are April, 7, and June, 2. Stay tuned to their Website for signup announcements or follow @smgzh on Twitter!

(Sorry, we needed to mess with the original Logo once again!)