Unfortunately even with my identification of a few incognito Canadians on the Web 2.0 attendee list, Canada was one attendee shy of being the 2nd largest country in attendance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week.

The top five countries in attendance were,

#1 United States: 915 | #2 United Kingdom: 42 | #3 Canada: 41 | #4 Germany: 16 | #5 Japan: 16

The strong Canadian presence included attendees from the following companies.

Brainpen (Les Cedres, Que.), Business Objects (Vancouver, BC), Cambrian House (Calgary, AB), Canoe/Quebecor Media (Montreal, Que.), Coradiant Inc. (Montreal, Que.), Cre8Object Corp. (Ottawa, Ont.), Flickr (I still consider the team Canadians even though they are in their new office in San Fran), Freshbooks.com (Toronto, Ont.), Geosign Corp. (Guelph, Ont.), Hydro-Quebec (Montreal, Que.), Indigo Books and Music (Toronto, Ont.), Radialpoint (Montreal, Que.), Sympatico/MSN (Montreal & Toronto), Torch Partnership (Toronto, Ont.), Tourism BC (Vancouver, BC), Tucows (Toronto, Ont.), Uniserve Communications (Vancouver, BC), Wanted Technologies (Quebec City, Que.), Yahoo Canada (Toronto, Ont.) and the Yellow Pages Group (Toronto, Ont.).

Radialpoint (my old team) and the team at Cambrian House were both there in force as sponsors representing Canadian companies.

Also in attendance was Wikitravel co-founder Evan Prodromou who was reporting for LinuxWorld, Michael Snider from the Globe and Mail and Salim Teja from Brightspark Ventures.

I was able to sit down and do audio interviews with Mike Sikorsky and Jason Woodrow from Cambrian House (who are great guys - and deserve an upcoming post of their own), Mike McDerment from Freshbooks (also a great guy, who spoke on Paul Kedrosky’s Enterprise 2.0 panel and was mentioned in Mary Meeker’s round up of Web 2.0 companies) and my old friend Elliot Noss from Tucows.

I also interviewed Canadian author Don Tapscott about his new book Wiknomics which looks great.

Paul Kedrosky and I were about to sit down, but our schedules ended up just missing each other. I’ll be trying to arrange a skype call with him in the coming weeks to do an interview for my upcoming podcast.

I am very excited about the startup activity I’m seeing in Canada. It was great to meet so many of you at the show.

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On Wed 15 Nov 2006.