Sclipo, a social Skills-Network based upon user-generated videos, has won the Startup 2.0 contest, whose final was hold yesterday at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. The second place was for a very similar project coming from Israel, 5min, while the third prize will go for Properazzi, crawler-based web 2.0 property search engine for all of Europe.

If you can not come to the Guggenheim, you will be able to follow the live videocasting of Blogak 2.0. It’s available thru this page and you just need to have Flash installed in your computer. It’s actually like youtubing or videoblogging in real time… Enjoy it!

If you want to have some beers with other bloggers coming to Blogak 2.0, do come tonight to Kafe Antzokia (find it here) at 11 p.m. We will party together! This event is also opened to people who could not come during the day to Blogak 2.0.

Last year we tried Blogak 2.0 to be an unconference. This means that people would just ask to be invited to talk and they were so. It worked pretty well, but we thought it should be improved, specially in a one-day event that needs to move fast. That is why this year’s Blogak 2.0 is half a conference a half an unconference.

Usually students attend classes to listen to some people who explain some boring things about a boring world. Well, perhaps it’s not exactly like that all the times. But, yes, many times it seems that there’s nothing interesting about attending classes. Not in a traditional way. The system is mostly based on memory, on studying, on reading. Teachers behave as teachers and students behave as students. Everything is in order. But could web 2.0 change roles? Let’s have a look at the Education 2.0 panel, at blogak 2.0.

This video was taken during Startup 2.0 two weeks ago in Madrid. Bloggers and Internet experts talk about Web 2.0: what they think and expect from it. A lot of optimism surrounds this word. Are you also very positive about it?

Rob Malda, the founder of the largest blog, Slashdot, will be in Blogak 2.0 next May 24th. Malda is 31 years old and created Slashdot as a science fiction and technology news website back in September 1997. It was later sold to the Open Source Technology Group, which belongs to VA Software. Malda keeps running the site, though, together with Jeff Bates and Robin Miller.

Twitter is such a social phenomenon that we plan to use it in order to webcast the event. You will be able to follow Blogak 2.0 if you aggregate yourself to this user in Twitter. We will also use this blog and everything will be video-casted in real time from the Guggenheim Museum to the whole world.

Why did we organize Startup 2.0? Last year we had so many projects wanting to be presented during Blogak 2.0 that we thought it would be a good idea to give everybody the chance to come through a contest. This contest was called Startup 2.0 as we wanted it to have some kind of business sense. The first part was held in Madrid and the European final is going to take place in Bilbao during Blogak 2.0.

The room is reserved (in the Guggenheim Museum), wi-fi connections are ready, speakers are already arranged… and the food is being cooked. So everything is ready for this year’s event. Remember this was the first Web 2.0 event all around Europe!