Image via Wikipedia Today is the start of the Amsterdam Dance Event here in Amsterdam Holland. To take a moment before you go out this weekend and enjoy dancing, music, clubbing or whatever you feel like with music this weekend have a look at these 2 great talks. One is from Bobby Mcferrin at the [...]
Cover via Amazon Steve Francis just came over happy about how his presentation on Transparency went today. It was a real great experience talking with him over the past weeks about the topic and helping him put it into a story to present. I learned a lot about how transparency networks started back in the [...]
I have been setting up some new twitter accounts for some projects and I just realised something new in the process. When someone starts on twitter first time they get 20 people to follow already. But then again, they don’t have any followers yet. Quite depressing. But wouldn’t Brands just love to be one of [...]
It seems that I am to creative to get a regular job. My whole life I’ve always been in startups. Even as a teenager. I never really understood why it was. Until lately that is. I’ve been looking for work too pay off enormous debts from bankruptcies at Mobuzz.tv and Xolo.tv (notice there is nothing [...]
Click to Play QuickTime Movie file Even though tragic events occurred in Holland during Queensday, we will never let fear rule our world. A compilation of my Queensday 2009 experience with friends in Amsterdam. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) Tags: amsterdam, queensday, amsterdamize, gabeb, gabemac, brandcells, party, music, fun, drinks, dance
Image by jurvetson via Flickr To all those creatives, artists, dancers, or anyone who feels that inner torment and struggle of, “Can I produce something good enough?” This talk from Elizabeth Gilbert at TED is something you should watch. It is scary how much this hit home, more than any of the books I’ve read [...]
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Megan Fox in Transformers Image by nicogenin via Flickr Besides Megan Fox, and Michael Bay doing Transformers again, I really want to see this movie. Transformers 2 may seem like a cheezy flick, but let me tell you, I was jealous of kids with Transformers when I was a kid. Nope, I wasn’t exactly the [...]
The pictures from the Dream Amsterdam project made by Peter Funch are now online on the IWONDER site. If you haven’t registered for the project, go check it out. Art translates into what you love about a city. Here are some pictures made with Sabine and Marc an me. Here is the press release sent [...]
So last weekend or so I was in Berlin to Speak at a workshop, and I did an interview with gruenderszene as well as some other journalists. In any case gruenderszene posted the video interviews as well as a nice writeup. In the interviews I talk about twitter, the difference between entrepreneurs in Europe, United [...]
image via CaglePost.com It is interesting to see how the web is being used as a tool for activism in Iran. And probably more importantly how people around the world show their support for the cause. Let’s take Twitter and Iran. Most of the news is coming out of this country through Twitter. And journalists [...]
The other day I was helping my friend Isabelle out with her blog. Of course setting up a blog with your own hosting etc. you need some good passwords, for example many sites insist that you create an extra strong password. Isabelle was having trouble with good passwords that were easy to remember. I told her [...]
Last weekend in Berlin I met with a number of journalists to talk tech. GameBizz.de is a popular site about gaming which also did an interview with me. Here is the interview in which I talk about Games, Game Development, teaching at the HKU, female gaming demographics and what Newspapers could be doing with Gaming [...]
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There is this really great project that my friend Jamain is doing. It is called Dream Amsterdam. This year she is asking for entries on the site to then select and actually make some happen. This is the chance to change your city conceptually. Go over and join the iWonder project, and give your ideas [...]
Last week at Webcom in Montreal I met a lot of great people, and saw some old friends. One of the friends I got to catch up with is Marc Canter. Now Marc has always been ahead of the curve. He was making the first synthesizers himself. He created Director to be able to create [...]
After coming back from Webcom where I gave a presentation on Virtual Immortality, I opened up my monthly photojojo time capsule and am floored yet again. This month I see pics from when Nuno and Nikki came to visit last year. I just got back from visiting them in Canada this weekend. Not only that [...]
If you think that Youtube is still a platform for independent film makers, think again. Watch this video about how they are slowly turning into a site purely for corporate means, and killing independent film maker oppurtunities. Youtube needs to be careful, otherwise it will fall leaving room for others to take the market such [...]
I have to admit that I was a sceptic when it came to Obama. I mean for the past 8 years under Bush, it hadn’t been the best time to be an American abroad. It reminded me a lot of when I was in highschool under his dad’s administration with all the bomb threats, not [...]
There is a guilty pleasure that really comes out in Flickr. Anonymous voyeruism. I noticed that some complete strangers have been faving certain pictures of mine for some time now. I could not figure out whether it was a stalker, or just some sad lonely person as there is nothing in the profiles to understand [...]
My brother gives my Holiday Christmas cheer message. I wish you all a wonderful Holiday Season, filled with Love and Joy. And I wish for you all an abundance of love, wealth and health in the coming year. That is my Holiday wish for you all. Make a wish yourself on Isowish.com Formats available: MPEG-4 [...]
It’s late at the office and I realized google docs could be the next social network meetup. See my excerpt from the document I was working on… is there anyone here tonight on this press release? Or am I here all alone? hello? I haven’t seen a change on this in 10 min. I’m running [...]
I said that I will be placing most of the videos I come across on the web onto vrlvideo.com. However this video is really excellent and I feel we all must strive to make it the Universal Norm. It is about what should be our Universal human rights. To often many of these rights are [...]
October 15, 2008 is Blog action day. All podcasters, videobloggers, and bloggers are joining together to raise awareness on poverty. If you have a blog, podcast or vlog, why not blog about it and help out? Click on the link above. What have I done this week? Well yesterday I was talking with some homeless [...]
This is an interesting video made in 1969 which describes what we do with the internet in amazing ways. The only thing they really forgot was gaming and porn I guess. But they got ebanking, email, onlineshopping, and webcams at least… not bad… What will the next big tech leap be in the future in [...]
I have been so bad with my About Me on all my various profiles. It’s one of those things I have on my todo list, for a while. The problem is I’ve been looking for the right kind of About Me. I was on Ellen van de Berg’s site and saw that she had a [...]
Loic Le Meur dropped into Amsterdam last night and we cought up on some of the projects we are doing together. I started talking to him about the Virtual Immortality project I’m helping with.
