As already posted right after the event, the party was a big success with around 500 guests attending and we received lots of positive feedback. Thanks again to all participants for coming and the great atmosphere. We have uploaded more pictures now.

At this point we would like to thank our XING member and graphical facilitator Reinhard Kuchenmüller from Visuelle Protokolle, who captured some of the conversations that evening in small drawings, which he integrated in a 5m x 1,60m picture.

We also want to thank Oliver Berger from soistdas.developing solutions and moderator of the XING Community Hamburg, who set up the photo corner at the entrance of the event. Read more about this here.

¡Hola! A few minutes ago we announced that we fully acquired the leading Spanish contact network for high-quality business contacts eConozco. At this point I want to thank the three founders Albert Armengol Bertrolí (spanish profile), Horaci Cuevas (spanish profile) and Toni Salvatella Pont (spanish profile) for building this great company, the first social networking for professionals site in Spain with approximately 150,000 professional members. And we are very pleased to extend now much faster our XING services to the Spanish community. Spanish is spoken by over 400,000,000 people and is the second fastest growing language in the world. Tuesday morning we will publish the full press-release.

update: More information in Spanish, English and German.

our hosting provider broke down, and yes, we are currently searching for a permanent backup solution so that this can’t happen egain.

Just come back from our XING CeBIT Networking Party last night.

A big success, over 400 guests and a first few pictures online, check them out here.

Many thanks to all guests for the great atmosphere, that was fun!

More pics to come soon, including the work of our graphical facilitator who visualized the conversations last night…

Many thanks as well to our Partner Deutsche Messe & our great team!

With Palm, Cash.de and ebuero we´re happy to welcome three new partners in our PremiumWorld. Please have a look, if we negotiated again unique rates for you.

Lars in interview with Technology Review [german].

XING-Gründer Lars Hinrichs über den Unterschied zwischen Web 2.0 und New Economy, die Bedeutung Chinas für sein Geschäft und neue Features, mit denen sich XING gegen die stärker werdende Konkurrenz behaupten will.

TED 2007 started today with an amazing list of speakers like Bill Clinton,

Hans Rosling,

Jeff Han

JJ Abrams, John Doerr, Lawrence Lessig,
Nathan Myhrvold,  Philippe Stark,  Richard Branson,
Paul Simon,

Tracy Chapman. TED is like taking your brain to a 4 day SPA-Treatment.

I am in USA for some days visiting companies and TED.  It is so much fun driving trough silicn valley and see so much free advertising.