facebook street art in Amsterdam. Facebook is the Opium for the People

Today I received this email from one of my sources. It talks about the cyber attacks upon South Korea and the U.S. that have been happening the last couple of days. These cyber attacks are the first signs of attacks. Back when Russia and Georgia had their invasions last year I reported on how the [...]

I haven’t been posting any great virals lately on vrlvdo.com because I need to reboot the system (at least that’s what the sales guy told me to do.) But until i get it working again, sign up for my Viral Newsletter which I will be starting shortly, and in the meantime, here is a few [...]

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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 [...]

As those of you who read this blog, or know @Marlooz you know she had her laptop stolen while at the #140conf in New York City. Her twitter followers raised enough money for a new one for her. She put together this compilation (was working until late last night I can tell you) to thank [...]

Do you want to know the amazing story of how video games came to be the way they are today? I found this great 5 Part documentary series that takes us through Pong being made on an oscilloscope( I think ), to the Virtual Worlds we have today. And every beautiful Ms. PacMan, Legend of [...]

Since I’ve been back in Amsterdam, I have been unable (too lazy) to get a bike. My old one, is dead somewhere near GabeB’s place and I can’t find the key. Marc had another bike which he lost the key to outside my house since August. Good condition though. I finally got around (was awake [...]

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 [...]

Hey family and friends that read this. Here are a whole bunch of pictures that I haven’t gotten to posting. Everything from going to Berlin, DreamAmsterdam, Steve’s B-Day party, GabeB singing at Panama, breakfast with Sabine and more in between. Slideshow frenzy!

Joking around with friends about the Adidas campaign “Impossible is nothing”. Rose Bertins tells the story. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) Tags: rosebertins, adidas, shows, brand, advertising, branding, nike Image via Wikipedia

The thing about working freelance…

I haven’t had a TV in Holland for a little over a year now. Actually I never really watched dutch TV to be honest when I did. When Bicyclemark skyped Amserdamize and I if we wanted to be on TV, we said sure why not? A friend of his Shylo (fun geek girl who loves [...]

My dad is Qikking at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. My mom works there saving the environment like she has always done. I remember chaining myself to trees as a kid with al the other neighborhood kids, in protest to a highway being built through a park in the area. Great memories. Love my parents for [...]

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 [...]

Caturday means more cats. Actually I’m more of a dog lover being allergic to cats, but virtually I think they are awesome. Maybe I need a virtual cat on the XBOX like Milo? Today coming from my buddy Nuno is Cats on Catnip. For more videos check his post here.

My roommate Marlooz gave a presentation today at the 140 conf by Jeff Pulver. Back in Kinnernet, Pulver and I where in a group talking about twitter and I shared my TwitterDate experience with Marlooz. Now Marlooz and I are roommates. He said he wanted that story at the 140conf. So Marlooz was able to [...]

A picture for an awesome girl for her birthday. Happy Birthday Sabine! I hope this year is the best one yet!

It’s time for some Puppets and muppets. Why? Because you can never go wrong with them. I see a revolution coming with puppets here. Much like the revolution in Animation spearheaded by greats like Spike Decker, Bill Plympton, Danny Antonucci and later the boys from South Park and others. Going from Disney kid animations, and [...]

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 [...]

Image via Wikipedia This is an excellent roundup video from Wolfgang Gaebler of the Barcelona Extreme Sports event. Everything from biking, water boarding, skating, bungy jumping, and more in sunny Barcelona. Very cool. Check it out for the extreme sports fans! more about “Barcelona Extreme 2009“, posted with vodpod

Next week I am attending the HKU Design for Virtual Theater and Games EXPO in Utrecht at the Huis aan de Werf. It will be a great show on June 18 and 19. Don’t miss it! For an example there are a couple free games to try out that some of my students made. Felisberto [...]

Who:Peter Funch is a Danish artist in New York that is working with the Dream Amsterdam project. What:The artist will be making a photograpgh where he is asking forpeople to particiapte in. this is part of the IWONDER project of DreamAmsterdam. People are asked to bring an opbject that is dear to themfrom home. Peter [...]

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Had a great dinner this weekend with @Marlooz and @askfrasco. Bit salty, but it was nice. Marlooz took us to a new place around the corner. Sitting outside with the weather not too cold, but still sunny was nice.

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 [...]