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Taksiko -an easy, fast and secure way to "call" a taxi- was claimed the best application in Europe being the winner of Start Up 2.0 competition, celebrated during the 3rd edition of Nonick. Trambus won the second position and Nightbits classified third.

Startup 2.0 is a European contest that in 2011 focuses on Mobile Applications. Founded in 2007, this non-profit event is a competition for startups that use 2.0 technologies, whose objectives are to promote and reward the European startups that work in the field. Last year, more than 2,000 investors and specialists followed the online streaming and 250 took place in Nonick while the projects were being showed.

143 mobile applications have taken part in this year''s edition. Facebook users have chosen the 20 finalists by voting their favorite 5 with an ad hoc application on the Startup 2.0 facebook page. After that, an international jury formed by 10 VCs and mobile experts from all over Europe selected the 5 winners that came to Bilbao on Friday, June 17th to present their projects in Nonick: Mobitto, Trambus, EdukidsApp, Taksiko and Nightbits were the projects to fight for the "txapela" of the champion.

Closing ceremony with Shazam

The award giving ceremony to choose the best Europe''s mobile application was held at the closing ceremony of nonick.

Nonick was held from June 17th-18th in EiTB''s Multibox venue in Bilbao and it was jointly organised by eitb.com, the Basque Government''s Department of Industry via its public company SPRI, in association with CBT. Jason Titus was in charge of closing this year''s Nonick, the third international conference of its kind focusing on internet trends.

Titus is Shazam''s Chief Technology Officer. Shazam is the application that allows the user to search for the title of any song they hear, by capturing a 10-second caption of that song and cross-checking it at a central database.

The president of Mozilla Europe, Tristan Nitot, kicked off Nonick2011 conference on Friday and he took the opportunity to present the most recent free platform for mobile phone applications which bosses at Firefox''s famous internet navigator are developing in response to opposition posed by Android Market (Google) and the Apple Store.