I was reading Kara Swisher’s post on All Things D about the Bing demo at Microsoft. I decided to give it a show compared to Google. To me Bing fails very simply. I will be the first to admit I’m a complete narcissist when it comes to search engines. If I put in my name […]
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Vincent Evert is the tech guru and Trendwatcher in the Netherlands. In this video he shows the various E-books that are on the market from the Kindle to the Open Source E-Books that are out there.
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I just finished a teaser for the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Award. Vodafone is giving away €150,000 in prize money to 3 startups. There is a jury of 12 experts to judge the startups in both England and Holland. In August they will be opening up the finalists to be voted on by the public to […]
Wanna save some money with calls? Well Fring is the answer. If you get an unlimited dataplan with your mobile bundle, get the free Fring app. They have it for Nokias, old iPhones, Motorolas and a slew of other phones. Now they have released the Fring for the new iPhone 3gs. Now with push notification. […]
Josh Rubin is the creator of Coolhunting.com. In this interview he talks about how coolhunting got started, what they look for and why they are associated as the trend finders on the internet, even though that is not what he set out to accomplish. Josh Rubin came to check the Picnic Salon event in New […]
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This is an excellent film from the vancouver film school about how the youth of Iran has embraced blogging.
I just got a message through facebook saying this:
If you have a Twitter account, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are apparently hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down […]
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 […]
Xbox and Steven Spielberg have gotten into a project called “Milo“. It is scarely like A.I. that was made by Spielberg, and really shows how far the “Tamagochi” Phenomenon can happen. When we feel lonely our laptops and our games are our new friends. Scary and sick but this is how it is going. But […]
So, I come across a video that I would like to save on the internet. I may wanna use it for a class, to create a mash-up, keep a copy of friends videos, use it to VJ, etc. I need to download a lot because of either copyright, or loss of account or some other […]
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. Isabelle was having trouble with good passwords that were easy to remember. I told her about my L33T technique and she thought it was brillant. Here […]
Have you played PowerPoint Karaoke yet? Ok this is one for the real nerds and geeks. The rules are simple.1. Have a powerpoint or slideshow that no one knows yet.2. A presentor tries to present the Powerpoint or Slideshow and make a coherent (and often humoruos) presentation.3. (Optional) Presentor must take a shot after every […]
File this in the category: WTF? I log into my twitter today to see this:
MY FREAKN ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED! FOR WHAT? And what pisses me off the most is the fact that there is no email to sent to me to give a “Head’s Up!” or WHY? Nothing what so ever. I have to surf […]
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 […]
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Many of you may be planning a vacation, or maybe staying around town for vacation. One thing I love during vacations or long drives is audiobooks. It’s nice to listen to podcasts, but sometimes a nice audiobook for a longer period is better. Although you can buy many audiobooks on Amazon and Audible.com, […]
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Sometime this afternoon I started getting mails from people asking me about a link I had mailed through facebook. I thought it was one of the links I put through twitter. Then I noticed it was a message I hadn’t sent at all., and it had sent iot to practically everyone in my […]
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 but […]
Many people have been asking me online and offline if I am going to start something new. Well there is a “New Show” in the works, but as I said before I need money to be able to really do it. One of the ways I am earning some money after the massive loss of […]
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 […]
Today I am traveling to Montreal Canada for a few days to talk at the WebCom 2009 conference. At this conference I will talk be talking about our digital identities and how we need to preserve them or not for future generations. Hopefully I will have a video to post of it afterward. If you […]
Later this year at Theater Spui in Amsterdam Den Haag is Blog-Art. I am really excited to see how this event unfolds so that we can see the art that is Blogging and Vlogging. It is an artform that many are forgetting about in their quest for SEO domination.
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Last week my dad was showing me his new toy the Logitec Pro Webcam over Skype. I grabbed a screencast of this hilarious and awesome video chat together with my father. All I can say is he is an amazing man, and I love him so much. He’s one of my heroes for sure! He […]
This is hilarious. Sorry Jon. With Bush out, you have to stretch and bust on twitter? Come on mate.
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A walking tour around the DLD where we see a number of internet famous people like Mark Zuckerberg, founders of XING, Spotify, Geewa, Creative Commons and more.
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A compilation of faces at the DLD 09.
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What is in the DLD goodies bags?
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Getting first aid at the DLD 09.
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