andUNITE joined the WhereCamp 2008 in Mt. View at the Googleplex last weekend. Pretty interesting and very inspiring, but: not that many people. At the registration desk you had to sign a NDA before you were allowed to enter the Google building in which the WhereCamp was hosted. Someone commented it as: “I don’t want to sign this. Why?? Well, I know, this is Google nowadays…”.

Most of the sessions were pretty interesting although we are not specialized in the geo whatever field. Google was nice enough to sponsor the event also with Ginseng Cola, chips, sweets and other specials like - well you can see the TOTO seats enhanced toilets for the delicate Google employee’s bum below. Oh, and you got a Google tent if you stayed over night on the campus!

So, here are some photos from the event:

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The dutch news site NUzakelijk published an article and a video/interview about andUNITE. The interview was recorded at The Next Web 2008 conference in Amsterdam.

andUNITE will be at the “Gründerkongress Multimedia 2008″ in Berlin tomorrow. We are looking forward to a) meeting other start-ups, b) having a chance to listen to all the exciting speaches and presentations, c) meeting with VCs and angels as well as d) having some nice snacks (?) and drinks (??). However, we are not really looking forward to getting up at 4 something a.m. AGAIN in order to take the plane to Berlin…

Bernd and Vincent will be present (and will present) at the “Web Montag” tomorrow in Stuttgart. Just in case there is someone out there who is interested in meeting the founders of andUNITE and freundefeed. The naughty guys from freundefeed caused quite some - well - uproar in the last few weeks - and andUNITE is still runningandrunningandrunning…

Ashok helped to put up another andUNITE poster in Surat, India. Early this year we already published some photos from other andUNITE posters in Surat. Thank you Ashok for your support! We also especially like the colors on these photos…

At The Next Web 2008 conference in Amsterdam Christian Schmidkonz, one of the founders of andUNITE.com, gave an interview on the red couch on, well, the Internet in general. Level3 conducted quite a lot of interviews with some of the VIPs and IPs and less IPs during the conference. How exciting to sit on this famous red couch - and being not allowed to look into the camera…

As already mentioned in a previous blog entry andUNITE is currently supported by a MBA team of the Cambridge Judge Business School. They already came to Munich for a workshop and we went to Cambridge for another workshop. Tomorrow will be another workshop with them, this time in Berlin.

Who are they? Well, they all are fascinating personalities! Here are some photos:

From left to right: Tomokazu Ogawa, an award winning architect from Tokyo, Carol Wong Hoi Yin, a highly experienced logistic manager from Hong Kong, Gek Chuin Tang , responsible for marketing and leasing of State land and buildings for Singapore Land Authority and Johnny Zhang, a well known former MTV presentator from Beijing.

And there is Ed Aruffo with a twenty-one year U.S. Naval Officer experience (you can read more about him here and here):

Except for the last photos (with Ed on the right (top) and left (bottom)) all pictures were taken in Munich, Germany, after our first workshop. It’s an honor to be able to work together with such an international team. And: It is a lot (!) of fun! Unfortunately this is only a temporary co-operation…