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I am very pleased to announce that all our efforts in creating a tech scene in Rome and more generally in Italy are coming through. On Monday, November 23rd we will be hosting our first event, in collaboration with a few roman startups: Publisoftweb, Ibrii, Frestyl and other cool geeks.

UpStartRoma will be a monthly meetup for the italian tech and startup scene. Our fist meeting will be held in Publisoftweb’s offices (thank you) and will feature quite a few pitches and keynotes.

What we aim to do is recreate the London-like ecosystem in Rome. There are a lot of great people, great startups, investors and bloggers but nobody knows each other very well. We hope to help everyone in finding new business contacts, mentors, investors and more generally very cool dudes to hang out with.

We can’t wait to be  able to do this in other cities, but for that we would need your help. Please contact us if you’d like our help with the organization of something similar in your city.

We must say, we got a good inspiration from the first Startup Night, that was held in Milan in September. And, by the way, they are hosting a second one, on Tuesday 24th.

If you’re around Rome this is a must-attend event, see you on November 23rd, 19:00 c/o Publisoftweb, Via Gallonio 6, Rome

I forgot to say that beer and pizza are on us!

Wozaik, a Paris-based startup which is developing a dynamic bookmarking system, is giving away 200 invites for an exclusive preview of their platform to theStartup.eu readers. You can grab one here.

You may have already heard of them as they were the winners of Mini Seedcamp Paris 2009, where they first demoed their product. They are still in private alpha, but will soon expand in a beta.

Wozaik provides you with a “mosaic view” of the web, meaning that you can place dynamic bookmarks on your wozaik page. That works with a bookmarklet, thanks to which you can clip portions on websites and insert them on your wozaik page. For example you could clip Techcrunch’s actively discussed posts, a market summary for a given stock, or some search results for a specific term.

If you are wondering how they are going to make money, they plan on generating revenue trough affiliations and a more classic freemium model. Premium features are however not disclosed at this time.

Let us know what you’re clipping in your wozaik. Here is a video that explains how it works.

LeWeb ‘09 looks more promising than ever. With the recent news of Queen Rania Al Abdullah attending on Dec 10th, the speakers’ list gets even more exciting.

To see the complete list of speakers you can either check the official list or follow the twitter list. As you can see the most famous internet stars will be there, and you should too.

I am an official blogger of LeWeb, and with many others I will be covering the event on twitter and on this blog. I suggest you follow the official bloggers’ twitter list.

The early bird ends on november 10, you can get a 10% discount on top of that with the following code: BLOG09.

Here is a video of the organizers, Loic and Geralindine, explaining the theme, program and speakers of LeWeb ‘09.

I’ll live blog the event, but I’d prefer to meet each and everyone of you over there!