Thursday, April 26, 2007

Ad tech 2

Yesterday on Ad tech we heard some good news for the Netherlands, It seems like Ad tech is coming to Amsterdam also. That's a great thing.
The sooner the better.

Today is the last day of Ad tech with some interesting sessions. First we kick off with the key note session about the guys from Joost. David Clark is going to fill us in on the details and model of Joost.

On AdTech there are multiple session , so I have to decide where I will go to!

Keep you informed on the blog!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Ad tech

First day at Ad tech!

The convention is well organized, lots of people from the industry.

First session was with Brian MCAndrews from AQauntive. interviewed by Lynne Johnson from fastcompany.com.
A good interview with good insights from the advertising point of view where the market is heading according to Brian.

Major issues are the increasing growth of video online and the combination with TV for the future.
On the other hand Brian mentioned some interesting things about the search for new technologies for branding and advertising purposes.
That's out game at swoot!!

By the way, Ad tech did well with the internet connection, other conventions can take an example out of this!

Some more meetings and presentations to look forward to!
So also more posts from Adtech will come soon!

Saturday, April 14, 2007

reading up

Saturday morning in the netherlands, amsterdam! the 14th of april and it's 20 degrees and sunny.
I'm outside on a wifi connection and decided I'd read up on the articles of last week. What happened this week!

We're second runner up on the killerstartup > www.killerstartups.com > help us get the votes to win
Webby award nominees are announced. ( what happened to the swoot webby sign up, next week more info about that)
Skype for the mac!
Joost made a deal with Fabchannel
Facebook launched new site design
Swoot launched the DJ Luna Browser > www.djluna.nl
Google buys doubleclick for an amazing 3.1 billion, now they control the whole advertising market........!!
Swoot doubles their users and downloads this week! We're on a role! Within some weeks we'll come out with some user stats!!
I had an interesting meetup coffeemeeting last week in the Utrechtsestraat in Amsterdam ( every week on thusday at 0900 hour). The guys from Fleck will attend next Londen Meetup and I will attend the San Franciscop meetup the week after..! So everybody in our lovely industrie who is in Amsterdam . do attend the meetup! http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1068/?gj=sj7

Our new swoot engine is being tested at this moment, and I am impressed. The amazing things we can do now, are unlimited!

Our Portal site is ( www.swoot.com) is almost finished. This week we added the rating. Within a couple of weeks we go out of beta!

Time to end up now and enjoy the sunny weather!!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Flecked

Swoot is flecked!

Fleck.com puts a layer over the internet.
With this service you can put comments on your site or sites from others!
This is cool stuff and fun to do!

Try it out

swoot is flecked on > http://extension.fleck.com/?sh=7a481a0c07bcb0af035af67c57dcc6611acd3256

Or put a comment on my blog


http://extension.fleck.com/?sh=0436015523d457cd7ddb7845f52ed986aca53808

It's fun!

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Ad tech here we come!

AdTEch!

We will be at Ad-Tech San Francisco!
Today I booked the tickets!

I think it will be an amazing event again!

I am still looking for interesting companies and people to meet there! Are you there, let me know and let's hook up!

rogier@swoot.com

Photoswoot Browser

We added a Hotmail function to our photoswoot browser!

Now you can upload your photo's in the flash uploader and send your album to all your Hotmail friends at once!
Easy and fast!!

try it now > www.photoswoot.com

Update of the TAC engine

We have great news!! Our TAC engine is being updated.
What kind of new features will we have , awesome ones!
A short list:

- Anti Alias scripting
- Transparancy
- On top functions

To go short, everything you can design in Photoshop, now you can transform it into a browser and all functionalities or blends etc will work!


The new engine will release within several weeks.

Do you like to have a preview, mail me and I'll send you a first release!

DJ LUNA is live in a browser

One of the top DJ's in the house/dance scene now has it's own browser. A super cool swoot browser made by the guys of Blue Symbols ( the first browser design bureau).
Within a couple of days it already reached more than 500 enthousiastics!
Here you see a screenshot!














We wish DJ Luna great succes and i'll keep you informed!!