Following popular demand we have recently upgraded the profile so now you can add your apps.

Whether you want your app to be showcased, shared and discovered or you want to submit it to an app competition in partnership with dotopen, like the AppCircus, you will find this new feature very useful and, of course, free.

To start you will have to log in to dotopen and once in your dashboard click on “UPDATE PROFILE”

Once at the edit profile screen choose the tab “apps” and make sure you fill in all the fields. You can also embed a YouTube video and screenshots to further describe what your app is about.

Once you are done describing, make sure that you click on “SAVE CHANGES”.

You can add as many apps as you like just hit the “+ add app” icon and start over.

Simple enough! Of course, you can always drop us a line for questions, feedback or bugs reports!

Participate for FREE to The Next Web Paypal X Startup Rally

We are happy to announce a partnership with The Next Web. dotopen members will have a unique opportunity to participate at The Next Web Paypal X Startup Rally. Apply today, we have 5 spots to present in the final in Amsterdam on April 27-29, 2010.

The Next Web Paypal X Startup Rally is open to any startup (Mobile or Web). It is free to enter.

Sign up here: http://dotopen.com/the-next-web-10 Hurry! We close submissions on Friday, April 2, midnight CET.

A Jury of Experts will select the 5 startups that will get a free ticket for the conference along with their 5-minute slot to present on the main stage.

Special ticket price for dotopen members

dotopen members can also buy tickets at a special price of 650€ (a 35% discount on the 999€ regular price). Get them here: http://dotopen.com/the-next-web-10

Not a member, yet? Register, it’s FREE!!

About dotopen
dotopen.com is the open platform for organizations, where decision makers can showcase their companies, discover relevant partners and build their ecosystems. With its international partnerships dotopen offers members opportunities to participate in startup and app competitions around the world. http://dotopen.com

About The Next Web Conference
April 27-29, 2010, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: The Next Web Conference is going into its fifth edition. It is the leading Internet Conference on European soil. Enjoy 3 days of Amsterdam, inspiration, business and fun. 1000+ Mobile and Internet professionals, entrepreneurs, developers, VC’s, bloggers, industry journalists and higher management of leading corporations gather in Amsterdam for The Next Web. It is a must attend for everybody that is interested in the future of Mobile and Web.
http://thenextweb.com/conference

Plugg is a one-day conference on Thursday, March 11 in Brussels, with a clear focus on celebrating entrepreneurship and innovation in Europe and raising global awareness for those European start-ups in the Web / Mobile 2.0 field that stand out in the crop. Check out the  full list of confirmed speakers and schedule for the day. You can register here.

One of the most exciting things at the conference is the Start-Ups Rally. Below, behold the names of the 20 innovative startups who’ve submitted their profile on dotopen.com for this year’s competition and were selected out of a total of 116 submitted profiles for the competition by a balanced jury of renowned industry professionals.

Hope to see you in Brussels next week!

- aNEWSMe (website – dotopen profile) from Bulgaria

- Apprupt (website – dotopen profile) from Germany

- CloudSplit (website – dotopen profile) from Ireland

- Collibra (website – dotopen profile) – from Belgium

- Datpresenter (website – dotopen profile) – from UK

- Distimo (website – dotopen profile) – from Netherlands

- English Attack (website – dotopen profile) – from France

- Fits.me (website – dotopen profile) from Estonia

- Flowr (website – dotopen profile) – from Slovenia

- Gigswiz (website – dotopen profile) from Finland

- Hipui (website – dotopen profile) from Finland

- Inbox2 (website – dotopen profile) from Netherlands

- Lumo Research (website – dotopen profile) from Finland

- Raz*War (website – dotopen profile) from Belgium

- Sclipo (website – dotopen profile) from Spain

- Shotools (website – dotopen profile) from Spain

- Smarkets (website – dotopen profile) from UK

- Stupeflix (website – dotopen profile) from Germany

- Submate (website – dotopen profile) from France

- Tweetmeme (website – dotopen profile) from UK

This year, the Mobile Premier Awards and Mobile Sunday attendance event registrations are done through dotopen. See below for details.

Mobile Premier Awards

The Mobile Premier Awards announced the 20 finalists to the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation: The best grassroots startup innovation chosen by their peers in partnership with MobileMonday, the global community of mobile professionals.

The finalists were chosen by an international jury of the most recognized mobile industry experts who will pitch their idea, application or project at the Mobile Premier Awards event that takes place in Barcelona, at the Petit Palau of Palau de la Musica on February 15, 2010 in front of investors, operators, media companies, peer entrepreneurs, and press and influential bloggers.

Registration to attend the event is now open. Get your ticket at http://www.dotopen.com/mobile-premier-awards.

Mobile Sunday Barcelona

The fifth annual Mobile Sunday – an unofficial, informal and generally cool and funky gathering of mobile bloggers and their chums – will be taking place in Barcelona on the eve of this year’s Mobile World Congress on Sunday, February 14, 2010, starting at 7pm CET.

This year, the event takes place at one of the coolest new bars in Barcelona, the VINTAGE – around the corner of the venue last year – for more space and a jazzy, loungy athmosphere, with different rooms and salons. We’ll be able to host 500 people in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and bites, including lots of sofa’s, private salons, four screens, a heated terrace and a dancefloor for the ones who like to kick off the  busy week with a swing.

Attending Mobile Sunday is free to all registered users of dotopen.com who will also get their company’s logo and pitch shown on the many screens visible at the event.

How to register

Log in to dotopen.com and click on attend this event in your toolbox. If you’re not a dotopen member yet, then register and publish your profile, it’s FREE! Non-dotopen members can purchase a ticket to Mobile Sunday at Amiando here.

We recommend not to wait last minute to book your tickets. There are limited seats and both events sell out every year in advance!

We hope to see you in Barcelona!

We’re happy to announce the partnership between dotopen and Slush!

Ever heard of Linux, MySQL or IRC? Nokia ring a bell? All of them came from the slush… Could it be that slush is the missing ingredient? At least you will not find much of it in Silicon Valley. Or in any of the other wannabe Silicon Valleys. You will find many new companies in the slush that you never heard of. Most of them built by entrepreneurs with names you can’t pronounce.

Slush Helsinki provides you with a perfectly safe, guided tour to this amazing, cold and dark habitat of cool new startups. If you’re a cool new startup, you should be there!

Go to dotopen.com/Slush-09 to find relevant info about the event on November 3-4 in Helsinki, Finland. dotopen members have a one-click access to register their startup for a demo table at Slush*. Selected startups might also get selected for a special Talkoot Treatment and get an opportunity to pitch to a board of experts organized by Slush.

So, what are you waiting for? Login or register to dotopen to apply for this exciting opportunity! The deadline for submission to Slush is 30.10.2009.

We hope to see you there!

the dotopen team.

* The demo table doesn’t cost you anything extra, but you still need to get your Slush ticket.

Last Thursday we hosted the Mobile Bites @ PICNIC09, a showcase dotopen organised to give young talented startups in mobile the chance to pitch their idea to a new audience. The startups could apply to demo through the dotopen.com/PICNIC participation page.

We selected five of the most interesting, creative, touching, weird or exciting applications in mobile to be showcased to the PICNIC audience in mini-presentations lasting 3 minutes each.

Alex Kummerman presenting Soundwalk

The presentations went well, most of the presenters went for the daring task to do a live demo on stage and the audience just loved it. Here below the pictures of the presenting startups, you can check their profile on dotopen by clicking their links. You can follow these companies as a dotopen member and stay up-to-date on their latest moves.

Stefanie Hoffmann – aka-aki, Georg Broxtermann – Orbster

Andie Nordgren – RjDj, Peter Vesterbacka – Ball-IT

We’d like to remind all startups in mobile to join the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Launch Pad!

Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley provides a platform for pre-A round and A round start-ups focusing on mobile applications and services looking for funding, trade press, tech blogger and early-adopter attention. Click here to apply for Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Start-up Launch Pad in San Francisco on October 15th, 2009 – any start-up with a mobile service or application can apply for jury selection.

We’re happy to announce the partnership between dotopen and Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley.

The MOBILE 2.0 Silicon Valley brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, and mobile application developers and web technologists. The conference is an opportunity for companies to connect to industry leadership and startup innovation and broaden your C-level relationships. The MOBILE 2.0 conference is a two-day event on October 15th and 16th, 2009 focusing on new Mobile Applications and Services, the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile Innovation presented by the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee.

Get a special rate on tickets
Go to dotopen.com/mobile-20 to find relevant info about the event and benefit a $50 disount on the standard ticket price for dotopen members only. dotopen offers 100 discounted tickets to its members for the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Businees Day event in San Francisco ($249 instead of $299). Log in or register at http://www.dotopen.com to find your discount code in your dotopen toolbox. Don’t wait too long to book your ticket since this event is always fully booked well in advance.

Startups in mobile: join the Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Launch Pad!
Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley provides a platform for pre-A round and A round start-ups focusing on mobile applications and services looking for funding, trade press, tech blogger and early-adopter attention. Click here to apply for Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley Start-up Launch Pad in San Francisco on October 15th, 2009 – any start-up with a mobile service or application can apply for jury selection.

We hope to see you there!

the dotopen team.

We’re happy to announce the partnership between dotopen and PICNIC Amsterdam 2009.

Go to dotopen.com/PICNIC to find relevant info about the event and pick up the goodies we have prepared for dotopen members.

Startups in mobile: join the PICNIC Mobile Bites!

On Thursday September 24, PICNIC and dotopen organise a short but sweet PICNIC Mobile Bites:
Five of the most interesting, creative, touching, weird or exciting applications in mobile will be showcased to the PICNIC audience in mini-presentations lasting 3 minutes each.

Do you have a really cool mobile application that you would like to demo or pitch during PICNIC ‘09?  Then this might be your chance! Apply exclusively through dotopen. Go to dotopen.com/PICNIC to participate, before September 10 midnight CET. *

Get a special rate on tickets

Dotopen members get a 15% discount on the PICNIC tickets. Log in or register at http://www.dotopen.com to get your discount code.

PICNIC is Amsterdam’s leading annual international event, highlighting creativity and innovation, particularly in media, entertainment and technology. PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas & knowledge of the world’s best creators & innovators. PICNIC ‘09 will take place from 23 to 25 September 2009 in a unique location, the Westergasfabriek, a former gasworks fabric.

dotopen is a social platform for decision makers to connect & collaborate. dotopen is open to any organization interested in developing its ecosystem in order to advance its business and innovation.

We hope to see you there!

the dotopen team.

* PICNIC and dotopen will review all applications based on the applicant´s profile page on dotopen. The selected companies will be notified by September 14. We will provide you with a free all day Festival ticket** that will allow for access to all the Festival activities that take place on September 23, 24 and 25!

**The Festival ticket does not give you access to the PICNIC Conference. Travel and hotel fees are not included.

Last week, we launched the public beta of dotopen – the b2b online platform for decision makers.

dotopen is aimed and open to any organization interested in developing its ecosystem in order to advance business and innovation.

No matter how large or small your organization is, you can create one or multiple profiles on dotopen to present your business and be discovered by others. You can add your different company streams to share your news and activities with other companies. Once registered, you will be able to follow any company that interests you, creating a filtered, personalized business stream.

In our effort to continue to build valuable opportunities for our members, we are pleased to announce our first partnership with GigaOM’s Mobilize 09 event.

Check out the Mobilize 09 event page on dotopen at http://dotopen.com/mobilize09.

dotopen members get a 20% discount on the Super Saver Ticket (on sale till August 14). Log in or register at http://www.dotopen.com.

About GigaOM’s Mobilize 09: The Future of the Mobile Web

Mobilize 09 is a one-day conference that brings together the thought leaders and practitioners of the mobile web and telecoms ecosystem for talk, demonstrations and debate. “We’ll examine what it means to have wireless broadband speeds at the Gigabit scale and how the explosion of open platforms and hardware beyond traditional handsets create new opportunities, for entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Join us for a look at emerging devices, from netbooks to smartphones and beyond. Examine the potential presented by application stores and the rapidly expanding variety of mobile tools. Sort through information on users and their needs. We will find the early indicators for opportunity in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the mobile web. We’ll also identify bumps in the road ahead — and help players in the wireless ecosystem see the opportunities they present.

At Mobilize 09 you’ll be able to network with 50 speakers and 500 delegates. Companies include Dell, Motorola, Sony Ericcson, frog design, Adaptive Path, Intel, ATT and a slew of mobile startups. We have over 40 confirmed speakers to date, including Sanjay Jha the co-CEO of Motorola as our Keynote.”