Actually, although BoomTown is staying right around the corner from Buckingham Palace in Mayfair, I am in London on my way to the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam later this week, where I will be interviewing some digital leaders onstage.

We’re still working on rolling out a version of our D: All Things Digital conference in Europe next fall, so it’s important to get a sense of what is going on here in the digital sector and, of course, what is not.

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I am now at the DLD conference in Munich, which is put on by Hubert Burda Media, a gathering that has become one of Europe’s most interesting in recent years.
The three-day DLD–which stands for Digital, Life, Design–focuses on digital innovation, science and culture and has the most cosmopolitan audience of any conference out there.
It is [...]

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The money continues to dribble into Facebook, it seems.
The Samwer brothers of Germany have agreed to invest $10 million to $15 million in the hot social-networking site, a development which was first reported by Reuters and TechCrunch.

It feels like an awfully small amount to garner a key Facebook relationship in the important European market, so [...]

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While BoomTown was abroad recently, we did video interviews with lots of folks, like Facebook’s Owen Van Natta. We also talked with MySpace’s SVP and GM of international, Travis Katz, but did not get around to posting it.
So here’s the video, where we talk about key trends abroad, the markets that will really matter [...]

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For your Thanksgiving entertainment, don’t be so American! Go abroad! See the world! BoomTown did!
Here are links to the posts I have done from BoomTown’s trip to Europe–with glamorous stops in England, France and Monaco (and all the videos are below too!)–in chronological order going backward:

Kara Visits the Royal Society in London

Kara Visits Cambridge University
Kara [...]

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So the hapless team from Silicon Valley got smoked last night, losing the debate at Cambridge University over where the most billion-dollar companies of the future would be created. Europe or Silicon Valley?
Even loudly declaring “Facebook, $15 billion valuation!!!” with a stiff upper lip didn’t work one bit.
Neither did: “Steve Jobs lives in Atherton”; “At [...]

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I know new Yahoo Eurohead Toby Coppel thinks I am too mean to his overlords in Sunnyvale and even emails me about it (I can take it!).
But I am going to surprise him by telling him that I think he is so very clever today.

Why? He signed the obvious deal with social network Bebo [...]

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One of the most hot and hyped areas on the Web is in the social-networking arena. And while Facebook and MySpace suck up all the oxygen in this heady room, there are others, including the No. 3 company in the space, Bebo.

While its technical and Web creation offices are in San Francisco, a lot of [...]

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While on my visit to London, I wanted to drop into an up-and-coming start-up here, and so I went to see WeeWorld, an avatar-based social network aimed at teen girls mostly.

Funded by Benchmark Capital’s London colleagues and also Accel Partners, it is typical of a European Web company in its worldwide focus (instead of just [...]

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While in London, I paid a visit to the offices of Yahoo, which are now located near Covent Garden (less upscale than its tonier digs in years past), and which is the new home of its new managing director, Toby Coppel.

Coppel, pictured here and whom I have known for many years, comes from ground zero–literally [...]

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I have known Simon Levene for a long time–he’s been working in the European operations at a handful of Web companies, such as @Home, Time Warner and Yahoo, over the years and is now working as a venture partner at the European branch of Accel Partners, the Palo Alto, Calif., backer of Facebook and other [...]

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I have arrived in Dublin and am so tired, I am still trying to figure out the time difference and money–yes, I am a completely ignorant American!
Nonetheless, we press on and serve up some interesting items from around the Web–this time with a Euro-focus.
First observation: If you want to make a friend abroad, carry an [...]

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