Friday, January 25, 2008

video or inspiration!!!

http://www.ideablob.com The inspirational video everyone has been passing around :

Views: 1,113,834

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

screaming for internet advertising space

How sad is this, this site is normally with a completely silent white background.~
I think the revenue must rise probably for this year! So they decided to advertise the background.
How awfull!!

check it 0ut yourself!


next today

ATG Buys CleverSet For $10 Million

Sunday, January 20, 2008

weekly article links

Babbel, to learn a new language > here

Googles achilles heel > here

My space, games portal > here

Just got back from NY

Just got back from a week of business in NY. Still pretty exhausted and tired, but we'll recovering!!
Here's a small update about this amazing week.


Monday 14th > arrived at noon and we're supposed to be speaking on Brett Petersell and Oz Sultan's WEB2.0 meetup. Got there on time, great place and lot's of people attending! We did a great presentation and had fun afterwards, met a bunch of nice people. Brett and OZ, thanks for a great night. I think the recording and photo's will come tomorow!


Tuesday, found this great little coffeeplace on greene st, called "aroma" , best coffee and free wifi , then a conference call with Shelly Palmer, great insights from a men who's knowledge and competence is enormous! , then we we're up to meet Susan Rosenthal for lunch downtown, what an amazing woman this is, we had a very interesting conversation and will definitely start working together! Later on the day we had a meeting with Jonathan Vanasco from Findmeon.com. Worked on some details on collaborating with his amazing technology.

Of course drinks at night, should have met Emily Warren from the webby awards crew, but missed out on eachother!

Wednesday we started with a meeting with the Barbarian Group crew, fantastic people with a great company, we will collaborate them with our swoot technology to bring to their clients, after this a great meeting with tippingpoint ventures. awesome investment group who totally gets our product and ambitions. Aferwards had our drinks with Emily in the Soho Grand, which actually became our little temporary " NY office".
We were on to have diners at night, our new sales guy just arrived for his 1st year wedding anniversary with his wife, met at his place and had great diner, surprisingly we ran into Oz Sultan at this place, who joined us for diner with his friend!

Thursday a big day for us, we had a meeting scheduled with the NBA, how awesome to be there!
The rest of the day meetings and calls with people who can help us in NY with all kind of things, after diner we met again with Oz Sultan and Jonathan Vanasco, had a great night and will intensively start cooperating with these guys!

Friday, a busy and short day, supposed to meet at bad boy records, but time wasn't on our side, we had to leave pretty early for our flight home. So a conference call is scheduled on monday!

Got a great flight home, best seats in the plane and was on time!

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Monday, January 7, 2008

microsoft photosynth

A couple of months ago we had the chance to play around with Microsoft Photosynth a little bit.
And I have to admit , very impressive!!

It is amazing how easy and secure the photosynth software operates.

We are fortunate that we're invited to the microsoft technology lab end of january to play around with the new Microsoft technologies some more. See what what kind of mashup we can build with the Swoot technology!

Here's a video of the photosynth that shows the possiblities!

search according to Wiki

This is the new search engine, still in Beta, from the founder of WikiPedia, Jimmy Wales.

A great site if you ask me and perhaps a new and interesting new way of searching. Try it out here

Wikia

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Strong Stories week 1

Here are some stories I found on the Blogosphere!

Check them out!

Webpredictions by don hinchcliffe

Share your travels by readwriteweb


100 things we didn't know last year by BBC

Internet , a new year!

What is going to happen in the internet industry, which companies will evolve, which will fall down on their current status!?

I have read all the posts last week about the predictions, some lame, some great!

What do I think:

1) don't predict a whole year, no one is that good! believe me!

2) Digg will be sold , very soon!

3) following up on 2 > great things to happen for Pownce after nr 2 has been done!

4) facebook will grow even more, my space will lose more to facebook, but also to another new one ( could be nr 3)

5) Open Social, yeah! But not the Google one, Facebook is doing great in that matter and will evolve, the rest needs to follow and try to improve!

6) Google , yeah still great, but a new social search site is about to rise, the next gen. search should be coming up! The Google Role in this can still be amazing, depends on their strategy and focus!

7) You tube will lose more users if they fail to make the youtube 2.0 version, it has to evolve now in order to keep up with the upcoming competition!

8) Ads will decrease even more in click through ratio and bannering will be out of grace within time! New Ad possibilities will arise!

9) DESKTOP APPS will ARISE! Finally and thanks to all the players on this field, this will evolve major. Widgets have cleared the path, now the next step needs to be taken, interesting thing will be what will happen with Air and of course what the big ones like i.e. Google and yahoo will do in this matter!!

Enough, all of this is pure speculation. One thing we did learned over the years, Internet is pretty much unpredictible!
Users are the number one group to decide for hot or not's!!

New year and what will happen next!!

Hi Everyone,

Up for a new Swoot year for me.

New things to happen, new adventures to come this year. It is predicted and set to be an amazing year. There are so many things that are happening as we speak ( write)!

We are going to move to a new location next month. about 100 metres from our current location, but twice the size!

We will settle our company in NY next month, Glenn Pennock will be moving there with 3 others.
We are about to do some great business projects in NY.
I will post about that within the next few weeks and keep you posted.

Our business model is also growing fast the last few months. We sell commercial licenses of the swoot product now for only 1960 euro's. This price is so cheap everyone is enthusiastic to create new things on the technology!

We closed some great deals with amazing brands worlwide which will launch in the next months their great desktop environments.

We will launch some amazing new features this next upcoming months, i.e. a personal remote for on your dekstop, sharable with your friends, an easy editor to build a swoot app, launch of the next gen E-cards!!

All great things if you ask me!!