on techcrunch:
check him doing the monkey:
Friday, March 7, 2008
Steve Ballmer at his best!
Check out this great review of the Steve Ballmer key note on MIX
on techcrunch:
check him doing the monkey:
on techcrunch:
check him doing the monkey:
digg and the selling efforts!
Microsoft and google looking to buy Digg.com, but not for the price that was set first!
check out the techcrunch article!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/google-microsoft-bidding-for-digg/
check out the techcrunch article!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/google-microsoft-bidding-for-digg/
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
what happened with the google shares
Google shares dropped down from a 711 dollar in november to a low of 464 yesterday.
A drop of 40%, where did this come from?
The 464 dollar is the same as october 2006.
One of the main reasons seem to be the fact that consumers click on advertising a lot less than they used to do in the last two years.
As always said , google is in the search market, which is a changing landscape and will be even more in the next coming 12 months. Search and more detailed " advertising on search" will change a lot.
A drop of 40%, where did this come from?
The 464 dollar is the same as october 2006.
One of the main reasons seem to be the fact that consumers click on advertising a lot less than they used to do in the last two years.
As always said , google is in the search market, which is a changing landscape and will be even more in the next coming 12 months. Search and more detailed " advertising on search" will change a lot.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
finances feb 27
Yelp raises $15 Million fourth round, valuation $200 Million
Advertising.com Founder Gets $15M for New Video Venture
kayak: Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep
FriendFeed Raises $5 Million, Now Open to Everyone
Estimates Put Internet Advertising at $21 Billion in U.S., $45 Billion Globally
Advertising.com Founder Gets $15M for New Video Venture
kayak: Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep
FriendFeed Raises $5 Million, Now Open to Everyone
Estimates Put Internet Advertising at $21 Billion in U.S., $45 Billion Globally
back from a short trip
Just got back from a short trip to marocco. very nice and beautifull.
And guess what, they have internet! Amazing!!
Did a lot happened in the meantime:
Adobe released out of beta with AIR > exciting > Don't know yet!
Yahoo anounced new open search platform > code name Serachmonkey
My new business cards came in > I am a president now........what to think of that!
Swoot launched some new cool brand projects, heinz group launched a brinta ( food) swoot widget. very cool!
And there will be so much new swoot news to come in the next period of time. I wish I could talk about it already, but just sit back and wait and see!!
And guess what, they have internet! Amazing!!
Did a lot happened in the meantime:
Adobe released out of beta with AIR > exciting > Don't know yet!
Yahoo anounced new open search platform > code name Serachmonkey
My new business cards came in > I am a president now........what to think of that!
Swoot launched some new cool brand projects, heinz group launched a brinta ( food) swoot widget. very cool!
And there will be so much new swoot news to come in the next period of time. I wish I could talk about it already, but just sit back and wait and see!!
Friday, February 1, 2008
google 2007
Google announced a 4.83 billion dollar revenue the last quarter 2007 . profits raise to 1.21 miljard dollar, . Google announced a year 2007 revenue of 16.6 billion dollar, 1and a profit of 4.2 billion dollar. Google employees are now up to 16.805 ftein since 31 december 2007, Over the year google hired 6131 people.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
My space open social is coming soon!
Rumours are stronger for Myspace to launch the open social platform beginning of feb.
Keep track with the progammableweb blog
check here
Keep track with the progammableweb blog
check here
Monday, January 28, 2008
money issues for 28th january
Friday, January 25, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
how much is a conference pass worth?
Just received this email from ted.com.
The very last pass is now for sale on ebay!!
~Check it here
TED.COM
The very last pass is now for sale on ebay!!
~Check it here
TED.COM
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
money issues for 23 jan.
Live Semantic Service Inform.com Takes $15m Investment
Box.net Raises $6M More for Online Storage
Intel and SAP Put $15 Million Into Enterprise-Search Company Endeca
Automattic Lands Massive $29.5M for WordPress, Other Products
- oundersfund: Founders Fund Closes $220 Million Second Fund
- San Francisco based Founders Fund launched in 2005 with a $50 million venture fund. They’ve had two liquidity events since then, and a handful of other very high profile investments (Facebook,...
Box.net Raises $6M More for Online Storage
Intel and SAP Put $15 Million Into Enterprise-Search Company Endeca
Automattic Lands Massive $29.5M for WordPress, Other Products
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!
I think the revenue must rise probably for this year! So they decided to advertise the background.
How awfull!!
check it 0ut yourself!
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
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!
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
The Race of Acquisitions has started!
Microsofts first big acquisition for 2008!
And the race begins!
CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICEL > by Techcrunch
And the race begins!
CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICEL > by Techcrunch
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!
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
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
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!!
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!!
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!!
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Swoot Wishes you a Merry and Swoot Christmas
As the new year dawns, we wish you a happy,
warm and wonderful upcoming time.
We are looking back at a memorable and fruitful year with you.
And we are looking forward how your idea’s and inspiration will
beacon a new way to greater joys for you!
Open our amazing Swoot christmas greet.
You need to have the one time plug-in to experience this, if you don't have this yet, please click here first
After the tiny plug-in install, you can view the special Swoot Christmas Expercience here!!!
CLICK HERE FOR A SWOOT CHRISTMAS
The Swoot Team
NOTE! For all you guys working on a Mac., sorry the plug-in doesn't work for this yet. But our developement team is working now a Mac. version!! ( by the way, swoot on windows on a mac does work)
For now we can't offer you the Swoot Christmas Experience, but we do wish you A Merry Swoot Christmas!
And a Screenshot for now!!!
warm and wonderful upcoming time.
We are looking back at a memorable and fruitful year with you.
And we are looking forward how your idea’s and inspiration will
beacon a new way to greater joys for you!
Open our amazing Swoot christmas greet.
You need to have the one time plug-in to experience this, if you don't have this yet, please click here first
After the tiny plug-in install, you can view the special Swoot Christmas Expercience here!!!
CLICK HERE FOR A SWOOT CHRISTMAS
The Swoot Team
NOTE! For all you guys working on a Mac., sorry the plug-in doesn't work for this yet. But our developement team is working now a Mac. version!! ( by the way, swoot on windows on a mac does work)
For now we can't offer you the Swoot Christmas Experience, but we do wish you A Merry Swoot Christmas!
And a Screenshot for now!!!
KUS Browser Live!
KUS BROWSER LIVE!
Means Kiss browser in dutch!
What is it:
KUS is a 4 girls popgroup, very popular in the netherlands and Belgium.
They have hitsingles, their own TV show, popular website, fanclub and more.
Now they have something even more unique, their own Swoot Browser!
This one is amazing and perfect for the target group.
Check it out on www.kus.nl or install the Kus icon directly from here KUS.EXE
If you have the Swoot plugin already, you can also check it here without installing
OPEN THE KUS BROWSER
some screenshots:
Do you want to see what KUS is first> see this You Tube video
Means Kiss browser in dutch!
What is it:
KUS is a 4 girls popgroup, very popular in the netherlands and Belgium.
They have hitsingles, their own TV show, popular website, fanclub and more.
Now they have something even more unique, their own Swoot Browser!
This one is amazing and perfect for the target group.
Check it out on www.kus.nl or install the Kus icon directly from here KUS.EXE
If you have the Swoot plugin already, you can also check it here without installing
OPEN THE KUS BROWSER
some screenshots:
Do you want to see what KUS is first> see this You Tube video
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Official Monteverdi.tv release
Dear classical music lover,
As you probably know, in this past ½ year Swoot has been putting an enormous lot of time and energy into the development of MonteVerdi.tv for our customer CommuniServe, an all-encompassing Internet platform for classical music lovers.
The official launch of www.MonteVerdi.tv will be early 2008, but I herewith invite you to visit a unique and brand-new site: MonteVerdi.tv - first comprehensive Internet platform for classical music. It enables you to enjoy TV shows and documentaries, a huge downloadable audio catalogue, news, reviews, video clips, and hundreds of classical radio stations. It also has a first-class web shop where you can buy CD’s, DVD’s, books, and sheet music. You see, they just went online in their beta version, but they are dying to tell the world about it.
They’ve been asking colleagues and acquaintances to spread the news among their subscribers, members, etcetera. And off course we do so.
Furthermore, MonteVerdi is a great place to share your knowledge, enthusiasm, and preferences with others. Sounds good? You are more than welcome to see and hear what they have in store for you at www.MonteVerdi.tv.
Tell a friend
Would you like to do another music lover a favour by sharing the news about MonteVerdi? Easy: just click the button ‘Tell a friend’, below this message.
http://communiserve.e-fulfilment.nl/e-messenger/tellafriend.php?8eab1cc7
As you probably know, in this past ½ year Swoot has been putting an enormous lot of time and energy into the development of MonteVerdi.tv for our customer CommuniServe, an all-encompassing Internet platform for classical music lovers.
The official launch of www.MonteVerdi.tv will be early 2008, but I herewith invite you to visit a unique and brand-new site: MonteVerdi.tv - first comprehensive Internet platform for classical music. It enables you to enjoy TV shows and documentaries, a huge downloadable audio catalogue, news, reviews, video clips, and hundreds of classical radio stations. It also has a first-class web shop where you can buy CD’s, DVD’s, books, and sheet music. You see, they just went online in their beta version, but they are dying to tell the world about it.
They’ve been asking colleagues and acquaintances to spread the news among their subscribers, members, etcetera. And off course we do so.
Furthermore, MonteVerdi is a great place to share your knowledge, enthusiasm, and preferences with others. Sounds good? You are more than welcome to see and hear what they have in store for you at www.MonteVerdi.tv.
Tell a friend
Would you like to do another music lover a favour by sharing the news about MonteVerdi? Easy: just click the button ‘Tell a friend’, below this message.
http://communiserve.e-fulfilment.nl/e-messenger/tellafriend.php?8eab1cc7
DIGG it, or not!
Digg for sale!
The rumours were already longer in the press. What's the story
There is a note that investment bank Allen & Company have received the project to sell the company for 300 million dollar, probably to the highest bid.
Is this worth it. In figures and spreadsheets perhaps not, but as we already know and learned over the past years, this doesn't really count.
It completely depends on the buyer and how much " back to the future" they achieve by buying the " users" from Digg!
So an interesting case will follow soon.
This will probably also mean that pownce will receive the full attention after the sale!
The best wishes to the Digg guys may be in place for now, see what happens.
The rumours were already longer in the press. What's the story
There is a note that investment bank Allen & Company have received the project to sell the company for 300 million dollar, probably to the highest bid.
Is this worth it. In figures and spreadsheets perhaps not, but as we already know and learned over the past years, this doesn't really count.
It completely depends on the buyer and how much " back to the future" they achieve by buying the " users" from Digg!
So an interesting case will follow soon.
This will probably also mean that pownce will receive the full attention after the sale!
The best wishes to the Digg guys may be in place for now, see what happens.
web2.0, what happened
FOWD November 2007
From: elliotjaystocks, 1 month ago
'Destroy The Web 2.0 Look': a presentation by Elliot Jay Stocks at Future of Web Design, November 2007
SlideShare Link
Monday, December 17, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
is my space linked in with Rupert Murdoch
What is going to happen to linkedin. They are definitely on the radar to be bought, perhaps by Rupert Murdoch. Will this be to help MySpace win back from the Facebook popularity.
Linkedin is still growing strong and is sure to be the best Business network around. Lok around, try some names on Linkedin and you'll find them.
But in the end i think the interactivity is too low for really using it more often.
An interesting prediction I read about last week was, " Will Facebook have more business contacts then Linkedin" . My answer would be " YES" .
if I see the activity on the Facebook within the business network on Facebook, this will take place.
I looked at myself and my own actions, I do both now, I look up for the new contact omn Linkedin and also check him/her on Facebook.
So , that being said and done, why do you want to buy Linkedin then?
What is the " up" for someone like Rupert Murdoch. Just a new separate business model, or integrate it with the MySpace plans??
Interesting , I'll keep on following this
Linkedin is still growing strong and is sure to be the best Business network around. Lok around, try some names on Linkedin and you'll find them.
But in the end i think the interactivity is too low for really using it more often.
An interesting prediction I read about last week was, " Will Facebook have more business contacts then Linkedin" . My answer would be " YES" .
if I see the activity on the Facebook within the business network on Facebook, this will take place.
I looked at myself and my own actions, I do both now, I look up for the new contact omn Linkedin and also check him/her on Facebook.
So , that being said and done, why do you want to buy Linkedin then?
What is the " up" for someone like Rupert Murdoch. Just a new separate business model, or integrate it with the MySpace plans??
Interesting , I'll keep on following this
Monday, November 19, 2007
Swoot NY hatchery
Swoot
From: swoot, 2 hours ago
Swoot presentation on the Hatchery event november 13th in NY
SlideShare Link
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Daniel Burka's presentation at FOWA
Daniel Burka
From: carsonified, 1 week ago
Daniel Burka Presentation given at Future of Web Apps, October 2007.
SlideShare Link
Monday, October 22, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Acquisition mashup
This is a very cool acquisition mashup with data from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.com.
Check it out, is worth the try
http://www.shmula.com/blog/timelines/google-microsoft-yahoo/g-y-m.htm
Check it out, is worth the try
http://www.shmula.com/blog/timelines/google-microsoft-yahoo/g-y-m.htm
Friday, October 12, 2007
Interesting Facebook insight
Big Brands & Facebook: Demographics, Case Studies & Best Practices
From: charleneli, 4 days ago
Just updated the PPT with demo data from Facebook.
SlideShare Link
A few good advertising men!!
Marketingfacts.nl today posted this video mashup, a wink to the creative industry with a twist.
Very cool.
A little like the break up from microsoft....
Very cool.
A little like the break up from microsoft....
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Romantic Garbage men
I found a dutch post in the online newpaper. The post was about women flirting more and more at work.
They posted this super funny video. So I won't keep it for myself
here it is!
They posted this super funny video. So I won't keep it for myself
here it is!
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
The A-Z for the web!!
The A to Z of developing for the web
From: mza, 21 hours ago
An introduction to modern web application development techniques: from Ajax to the Zen Garden
SlideShare Link
Friday, October 5, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The Season
This is the season for many exhibitions to take place:
Swoot ( me) will be joining a lot of them:
AdTech London 26-28 oct
Future of Webapps in London > 3-5 oct
my profile there:
Picnic 2007 in Amsterdam 25-28 sept
We will present there at Barcamp 212 on wednesday!
maybe some more events, but I'll keep you posted.
I will also blog from these events.
Will you be at one of there events and like to meetup, let me know!
Swoot ( me) will be joining a lot of them:
AdTech London 26-28 oct
Future of Webapps in London > 3-5 oct
my profile there:
Picnic 2007 in Amsterdam 25-28 sept
We will present there at Barcamp 212 on wednesday!
maybe some more events, but I'll keep you posted.
I will also blog from these events.
Will you be at one of there events and like to meetup, let me know!
Monday, September 17, 2007
The web forward?
Web2.0: Why we got here and what's next
From: rolfsky, 2 days ago
What is Web 2.0 and why are we so excited by it? How should it affect business decisions?
Link: SlideShare Link
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
HULU, here it is
‘NBC Universal and News Corp. have yet to name the joint- venture and for the moment it is being called New Site, now we call it HULU.....
Providence equity has put in 100 mio dollar to launch the youtube killer.
Will this challenge be real?
Let's forget the name and don't spend the Michael Arrington hours in it to discuss that, let's focus on the goals
What will they have to do to become the next 1 billion dollar initiative.
Have the greatest content, be easy, free or the best design?
Bokardo wrote an interesting post about it, : what it you tube was just lucky?
How does the buzz work and where and what are the moments of truth of the buzz.
Perhaps the answer for Bokardo´s blog will come when HULU becomes the next big thing, or won´t become this.
I really don´t have the answer. And why do they think there´s still a market to grab or to win new users.
What will the user interface be, what is the target group, who can do what in user generated content on the site?
A lot of questions, less answers. but we will try the beta and see what happens!
Providence equity has put in 100 mio dollar to launch the youtube killer.
Will this challenge be real?
Let's forget the name and don't spend the Michael Arrington hours in it to discuss that, let's focus on the goals
What will they have to do to become the next 1 billion dollar initiative.
Have the greatest content, be easy, free or the best design?
Bokardo wrote an interesting post about it, : what it you tube was just lucky?
How does the buzz work and where and what are the moments of truth of the buzz.
Perhaps the answer for Bokardo´s blog will come when HULU becomes the next big thing, or won´t become this.
I really don´t have the answer. And why do they think there´s still a market to grab or to win new users.
What will the user interface be, what is the target group, who can do what in user generated content on the site?
A lot of questions, less answers. but we will try the beta and see what happens!
Monday, August 27, 2007
FOWA
The organisation of Future of WebApps is setting up a road show.
They will do 12 cities prior to the event on 3-5 october.
The previous one was a big hit, so the machine will run again this year.
Again an impressive list of speakers and attendees.
We will also try to be there again....
But first the road show. on the 17th september they will be here in Amsterdam in Cafe de Jaren,
Thanks to Robert Gaal of Wakoopa/blueace for that
Ryan Carson will do all the roadtrips.
A preview here:
They will do 12 cities prior to the event on 3-5 october.
The previous one was a big hit, so the machine will run again this year.
Again an impressive list of speakers and attendees.
We will also try to be there again....
But first the road show. on the 17th september they will be here in Amsterdam in Cafe de Jaren,
Thanks to Robert Gaal of Wakoopa/blueace for that
Ryan Carson will do all the roadtrips.
A preview here:
Allofmp3 back on track!
Will Allofmp3 just come back, according to them they will be back in the foreseeable future.
Why the statement, they won the legal case of 15th august, or so the court ruled that the previous CEO was not guilty of breaching Russian copyright laws, and therefore the AllofMP3 service was legal.
EMI, NBC Universal and Time Warner where the big guys leading the dance of the legal matter.
What will follow now, Allofmp3 reopening without any changes. This will turn the music world upside down.
And will lead many players to russia to copycat!
Interesting, we will follow the matter!
Why the statement, they won the legal case of 15th august, or so the court ruled that the previous CEO was not guilty of breaching Russian copyright laws, and therefore the AllofMP3 service was legal.
EMI, NBC Universal and Time Warner where the big guys leading the dance of the legal matter.
What will follow now, Allofmp3 reopening without any changes. This will turn the music world upside down.
And will lead many players to russia to copycat!
Interesting, we will follow the matter!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Why did he move
Loic le Meur has moved to San Francisco earlier this year!
It seems that many has asked that question.
So Loic has decided to answer online!
check out loic tv
Here's the reason:
Loic, we wish you the best in SF!
It seems that many has asked that question.
So Loic has decided to answer online!
check out loic tv
Here's the reason:
Loic, we wish you the best in SF!
A little entertainment
We saw this guy at the Webby afterparty in June.
He is great, what a voice and soul
Who: Kevin Michael
Check him out in this video, this is a great song
He is great, what a voice and soul
Who: Kevin Michael
Check him out in this video, this is a great song
The NY Hatchery
Here's a great initiative!
Since march this year, every month in NY the Hatchery takes place.
The Hatchery is a place in real live where entrepeneurs meet their future advisors, future boardmembers, the press and even their "to be raised"money from VC's
On the website www.hatchedbyus.com you will find all you need to know
The CEO of Gigapixel creative , Yao-Hui Huang ( or as she states on her business card ; Dr business )is also initiator of this event.
As they claim their mission is:
The Hatchery was founded in 2007 on the fundamental principle that all technology companies have the right to access business experts and leading-edge information. We believe that New York City is the best place for innovation, communication and finance to create a leading national technology hub.
To show you what it's all about, you can watch a part of a hatchery here:
Since march this year, every month in NY the Hatchery takes place.
The Hatchery is a place in real live where entrepeneurs meet their future advisors, future boardmembers, the press and even their "to be raised"money from VC's
On the website www.hatchedbyus.com you will find all you need to know
The CEO of Gigapixel creative , Yao-Hui Huang ( or as she states on her business card ; Dr business )is also initiator of this event.
As they claim their mission is:
The Hatchery was founded in 2007 on the fundamental principle that all technology companies have the right to access business experts and leading-edge information. We believe that New York City is the best place for innovation, communication and finance to create a leading national technology hub.
To show you what it's all about, you can watch a part of a hatchery here:
Monday, August 20, 2007
news from the swoot front
Back to blog again after an amazing period. of course the holiday season should be more quiet. We experienced pretty much the opposite.
what happened:
We are currently in progress to take the next step with our company. We will go live in the US within a month, with an office and a cooperation with some great people. More to follow soon!
We almost finished our portal website and continued working on the swoot community. Portal will go out of beta within the next weeks. The community will go live in beta within the same couple of weeks. Do you want to be a test user for the sowot community, let me know!
Furthermore our partner in Belgium launched the comic browser for the Kiekeboe comics.
Our new plugin is live and working great. If you already have the plugin. go to start, go to TAC, uninstall this and install the new one.
This new plugin provides unlimited creativity for builders of RIA applics on the TAC technology. We call them Taccel's now. So if you build some great stuff with the Swoot TAC technology, you call it a Taccel!!
Our company Futiball launched their new remote control and portal website > detail story will follow!
We also closed some new deals, more info about that will follow soon!
what happened:
We are currently in progress to take the next step with our company. We will go live in the US within a month, with an office and a cooperation with some great people. More to follow soon!
We almost finished our portal website and continued working on the swoot community. Portal will go out of beta within the next weeks. The community will go live in beta within the same couple of weeks. Do you want to be a test user for the sowot community, let me know!
Furthermore our partner in Belgium launched the comic browser for the Kiekeboe comics.
Our new plugin is live and working great. If you already have the plugin. go to start, go to TAC, uninstall this and install the new one.
This new plugin provides unlimited creativity for builders of RIA applics on the TAC technology. We call them Taccel's now. So if you build some great stuff with the Swoot TAC technology, you call it a Taccel!!
Our company Futiball launched their new remote control and portal website > detail story will follow!
We also closed some new deals, more info about that will follow soon!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Cofoundr.com , everyone could use a little help
When you try to build your internet company, you could use some help!
cofoundr.com helps you during taht journey!
I created a profile, picture onfortunately didn't work.....
I'm going to try it a little more and let you know!
cofoundr.com helps you during taht journey!
Cofoundr is a private community for entrepreneurs -- programmers, designers, investors, and other individuals deeply involved with starting new ventures.
Members use this site to find co-founders, build teams, and get advice.
The site is currently in public beta.
I created a profile, picture onfortunately didn't work.....
I'm going to try it a little more and let you know!
Mediabistro sold!!
Mediabistro.com bought by Jupitermedia for 23 mio.
The figures, 20 mio cash out and an additional 3 mio spread over 2 years.
According to Lexa over 70% users are US based.
rank 7.446
The traffic graph shows a slightly trend down.
Average users around 8.000.
Sounds like a pretty good deal.
The figures, 20 mio cash out and an additional 3 mio spread over 2 years.
According to Lexa over 70% users are US based.
rank 7.446
The traffic graph shows a slightly trend down.
Average users around 8.000.
Sounds like a pretty good deal.
belgian comic Kiekeboe live with swoot browser
Great news, Wildstream agency and Standaard uitgeverijen, just launched the Kiekeboe browser. Kiekeboe.be
I think it looks amazing. Well done.
You can download the kiekeboe plugin here, click on the image:
Check here the video > click on the video capture
next month the famous Suske and Wiske strip will also launch their browser concept.
We wish Kiekeboe all the luck with this super cool browser.
I think it looks amazing. Well done.
You can download the kiekeboe plugin here, click on the image:
Check here the video > click on the video capture
next month the famous Suske and Wiske strip will also launch their browser concept.
We wish Kiekeboe all the luck with this super cool browser.
Monday, July 16, 2007
NING, the story continues
How about Ning, the story continues.
is it really an interesting big one or will it die slowly.
For now they will go on for a wile after just getting 44 million dollar of funding.
44 mio??. the 44 is set against a value of 144 mio dollar. 25% of the company for 44 mio.
What will become of this site?
is it really an interesting big one or will it die slowly.
For now they will go on for a wile after just getting 44 million dollar of funding.
44 mio??. the 44 is set against a value of 144 mio dollar. 25% of the company for 44 mio.
What will become of this site?
The Indian Market
We see more and more movement towards the "great" new markets like India.
Yesterday Mashable posted about Google and Yahoo both try to acquire the social sharing site Rediff
Rediff is the No. 5 Indian web portal. It is the only India-based website to appear in first 100 websites
here the alexa rankings
An interesting move to the indian market. The question now is who will make the deal, Google of Yahoo.
Wait and see!!
Yesterday Mashable posted about Google and Yahoo both try to acquire the social sharing site Rediff
Rediff is the No. 5 Indian web portal. It is the only India-based website to appear in first 100 websites
here the alexa rankings
An interesting move to the indian market. The question now is who will make the deal, Google of Yahoo.
Wait and see!!
Coca Cola Inside
A great video about the inside of the coca cola fridge commercial....the figures come alive!!
Friday, July 6, 2007
The interview from the next web 2007
I just forgot to post this one!
My interview on the next web event
My interview on the next web event
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Finally back to blog again
Finally, back again at the office!
The past two weeks were crazy, lots of seminars, trip to NY and busy with new projects.
In the next few days I'll catch up with the stories about this crazy weeks!
Check it out!
The past two weeks were crazy, lots of seminars, trip to NY and busy with new projects.
In the next few days I'll catch up with the stories about this crazy weeks!
Check it out!
Friday, May 25, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Web3 with Shimon Peres
We were on the web3 conference in December , on one of the days Shimon Peres was the quest speaker and spoke about technology and future.
A great session, very impressive.
Check it out here
A great session, very impressive.
Check it out here
Where does the internet goes to
What will be the future of internet
Check these video's to see wich one will be the future of how we use the internet:
Check these video's to see wich one will be the future of how we use the internet:
How about powerpoint
Every session you go to, almost everybody uses the known and famous powerpoint slides.
And recognize the too crowded sheets, the over colorfull sheets, the too small sheets or fonts and of course the one with too much text and/or graphs!!! And of course the boring ones that make you fall a sleep.
Comic Don McMillan takes you of the how and what of powerpoint presentations
Watch it here!
Life After Death by PowerPoint
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And recognize the too crowded sheets, the over colorfull sheets, the too small sheets or fonts and of course the one with too much text and/or graphs!!! And of course the boring ones that make you fall a sleep.
Comic Don McMillan takes you of the how and what of powerpoint presentations
Watch it here!
Life After Death by PowerPoint
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Monday, May 14, 2007
The Next Web
Here's some info about the Next Web Conference!
A one day conference with a focus on the near future of the web and how new technology, business models, innovation and culture-changes affect the direction of the web and the way we do business. The Conference for web industry thought leaders, leading companies, innovative Startups, visionaries, seed funders and real Web savvies.
the next web on tour in San Francisco
Boris, Patrick and Arjen are the organizing the Next Web conference in Amsterdam the 1st of June.
A great initiative with many internet entrepeneurs, great speakers and interesting topics.
To promote the event a little more and of course their own company Fleck.com they took the plane to San Francisco and promoted their event.
In white suits they went to the parties, had meetings with the Internet companies, entrepeneurs and all kinds of interesting people!
The whole story you can find here >
But a quick preview with some pictures can be nice!!!
A great initiative with many internet entrepeneurs, great speakers and interesting topics.
To promote the event a little more and of course their own company Fleck.com they took the plane to San Francisco and promoted their event.
In white suits they went to the parties, had meetings with the Internet companies, entrepeneurs and all kinds of interesting people!
The whole story you can find here >
But a quick preview with some pictures can be nice!!!
NIKE COMMERCIALS
There are so many cool Nike commercials , I picked some of them of You Tube!
In my opinion Nike hits the experience button with their tv commercials, but also with the internet strategy!
Just Go On!
Unfortunately this one can't be embedded, so just click the link to go back in time a little with Andre Agassi
Here
If you like to send me more video's, please do and I will post them!
Let's build a collection!!!
In my opinion Nike hits the experience button with their tv commercials, but also with the internet strategy!
Just Go On!
Unfortunately this one can't be embedded, so just click the link to go back in time a little with Andre Agassi
Here
If you like to send me more video's, please do and I will post them!
Let's build a collection!!!
3rd of June Webby Cocktail party
Just a couple of weeks and we will be in New York and throw our big Webby party together with Jake Blok ( www.ilovethewebbys.com) , the Dutch Ambassy and the Webby organisation.
I am very sure this is going to be an amazing party!!
Of course we will also be around for the other events. Together with some of the guys from Blue Symbols.
We are really looking forward!!!
Here's is a little preview for the party and the event!!
Sunday, May 13, 2007
How to build your own TAC ( The amazing content)
One of the great things about the swoot project and the TAC platform is that everyone can build their own TAC online application.
How difficult is it?
Let’s take a look:
You have to be able to draw/design in Photoshop (or another drawing programm).
You can also use pictures or shapes or something. So you don’t need to draw it yourself.
After that you have to follow the script instructions from our tutorial ( a.k.a swootorial)
And after trying for yourself you’ll find out it’s pretty easy.
Go to http://www.swoot.com/swootorial/ to check all the tutorial material to build your own!
When you compare it to other platforms the differences appear:
What are the Differences with other platforms?
-On Apollo or widget platforms you’ll need to have more experience developer skills
-You’ll bounce against limits in design or functionality
-One of the great diffences, we are server-based and you don’t have to people download your application > it’s just there and they have to open it.
-Widgets are limited to their platform and don’t communicate together
And of course , as a designer/developer we give you total freedom in shape, content and functionality. Everything you can imagine and design, you can build as TAC ( Amazing content).
So try it out for yourself!
There is even a contest on www.swoot.com , you can win the new PSP3 console
How difficult is it?
Let’s take a look:
You have to be able to draw/design in Photoshop (or another drawing programm).
You can also use pictures or shapes or something. So you don’t need to draw it yourself.
After that you have to follow the script instructions from our tutorial ( a.k.a swootorial)
And after trying for yourself you’ll find out it’s pretty easy.
Go to http://www.swoot.com/swootorial/ to check all the tutorial material to build your own!
When you compare it to other platforms the differences appear:
What are the Differences with other platforms?
-On Apollo or widget platforms you’ll need to have more experience developer skills
-You’ll bounce against limits in design or functionality
-One of the great diffences, we are server-based and you don’t have to people download your application > it’s just there and they have to open it.
-Widgets are limited to their platform and don’t communicate together
And of course , as a designer/developer we give you total freedom in shape, content and functionality. Everything you can imagine and design, you can build as TAC ( Amazing content).
So try it out for yourself!
There is even a contest on www.swoot.com , you can win the new PSP3 console
Friday, May 4, 2007
Swoot official Honoree for the Webby awards and other winners!
We feel like a true winner, for our first entry we became a Webby Honoree in the category Apllications and Games!
We are very happy with this result!
This is a great thanks to all people involved in our swoot project, we’ve only been around since September 2006 and already officially honoured for having a great internet service/project. This is absolutely a great compliment and a motivation to get on with our great company and deliver our “giving internet a new face” philosophy!!
This was our contribution > HERE
Of course we like to congratulate all the other honoree’s , nominations and far most the winners of the Webby Awards. Well done everyone!!
All these companies show that the internet is heading in a great direction!!
To celebrate all this we decided to throw a partie with Jake Blok ( dutch jurymember and founder of www.ihaveawish.com and www.crossspring.com ) and other sponsors.
This will take place on the third of June in New York.
The second reason is that we will start our business within the next several months in the US. So everyone who likes our Swoot Project and like to partner up with us in the US is dared to email me your thoughts, or you’d like te celebrate with us on the 3rd , let me know!!
If you want to see what the webby's are all about> check out last years video
We are very happy with this result!
This is a great thanks to all people involved in our swoot project, we’ve only been around since September 2006 and already officially honoured for having a great internet service/project. This is absolutely a great compliment and a motivation to get on with our great company and deliver our “giving internet a new face” philosophy!!
This was our contribution > HERE
Of course we like to congratulate all the other honoree’s , nominations and far most the winners of the Webby Awards. Well done everyone!!
All these companies show that the internet is heading in a great direction!!
To celebrate all this we decided to throw a partie with Jake Blok ( dutch jurymember and founder of www.ihaveawish.com and www.crossspring.com ) and other sponsors.
This will take place on the third of June in New York.
The second reason is that we will start our business within the next several months in the US. So everyone who likes our Swoot Project and like to partner up with us in the US is dared to email me your thoughts, or you’d like te celebrate with us on the 3rd , let me know!!
If you want to see what the webby's are all about> check out last years video
the history of widgets
Today I saw a comment in "marketingfacts" blog ( dutch blog)
The article was about the upcoming gadgets , as seen on the MIX'07 Disney case > see my post earlier.
He made a great comment about the idea of desktop applications, but then in 1981.
The story involves Steve Jobs, Bill Atkinson and others.
READ IT HERE!
Here's the next step, Steve Jobs introducing the MAC in 1984!
The article was about the upcoming gadgets , as seen on the MIX'07 Disney case > see my post earlier.
He made a great comment about the idea of desktop applications, but then in 1981.
The story involves Steve Jobs, Bill Atkinson and others.
READ IT HERE!
Here's the next step, Steve Jobs introducing the MAC in 1984!
What "general" to buy for 10 million
What can you buy for 10 million!
I have something! How about the General Lee from legendary Dukes actor John Schneider!
It's for sale on Ebay for 10+
A couple of hours to go till closing time!
I loved that TV serie, so a little tribute here!
And A cool Photoswoot album about these Dukes!
Do you have more pics, email me and I'll add you on the album and you can put your pics in there too! The best dukes album online! How about it?
Click here for the Dukes photo album!
I have something! How about the General Lee from legendary Dukes actor John Schneider!
It's for sale on Ebay for 10+
A couple of hours to go till closing time!
I loved that TV serie, so a little tribute here!
And A cool Photoswoot album about these Dukes!
Do you have more pics, email me and I'll add you on the album and you can put your pics in there too! The best dukes album online! How about it?
Click here for the Dukes photo album!
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Disney got it!
Disney’s new online experience for the Honk Kong market is amazing, build on the vista gadget platform!
Edward Kummer showed this on MIX’07.
Unfortunately I couldn’t be there, but the video impressed me!
Disney truly understands the idea of bringing experience to the web and the user.
They have used the new vista gadget technology.
I think in the near future a lot of brands will take the opportunities of new platforms to bring rich media experiences to the desktop.
I am very happy with this new branding focus.
This gives Swoot the opportunity to get their technology to the front of this new rich media focus.
As earlier stated, Swoot is the only company who can offer the uniqueness of bringing rich media to the desktop in a browser without the issues of limits on design, functionality or content. Beside this the unique factor is that the technology works server-sided and doesn’t need a platform. Just your OS will do the trick. Get an icon on the desktop, be on top of mind, your brand is there all the time and never worry about users needing to update your new material. It’s just there!!!
Look at our view on kids experience in the swoot kids environment!!
Edward Kummer showed this on MIX’07.
Unfortunately I couldn’t be there, but the video impressed me!
Disney truly understands the idea of bringing experience to the web and the user.
They have used the new vista gadget technology.
I think in the near future a lot of brands will take the opportunities of new platforms to bring rich media experiences to the desktop.
I am very happy with this new branding focus.
This gives Swoot the opportunity to get their technology to the front of this new rich media focus.
As earlier stated, Swoot is the only company who can offer the uniqueness of bringing rich media to the desktop in a browser without the issues of limits on design, functionality or content. Beside this the unique factor is that the technology works server-sided and doesn’t need a platform. Just your OS will do the trick. Get an icon on the desktop, be on top of mind, your brand is there all the time and never worry about users needing to update your new material. It’s just there!!!
Look at our view on kids experience in the swoot kids environment!!
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