Idea for new service: digital businesscards
We are meeting with a lot of people here in the New York and exchanging businesscards with most of them. A few hours before the trip I realized I didn’t have any current businesscards so I made some. I used extra thick paper and printed only my name on one side and just my emailaddress on the other side. I like businesscards a lot but am always wondering on how to improve the the whole system. There is a format for digital businesscards called VCF which stands for Virtual Card Format. You can just export any address from most of the...
read moreSpotted at the Cross Media Week
L1120870.jpg Originally uploaded by Guido van Nispen. Last thursday I spend about 30 minutes at the Cross Media week conference but that was long enough for Guido van Nispen to take a photo of me. Who knows who the other two guys in the photo are? UPDATE: that was quick. Guido van Nispen (the man with the plan) says these are Gabe and Gabe of...
read moreincredible VS inevitable
It’s six in the morning and I’m awake in my bed. Thats because its six her but according to my body and mind it is actually 12 am. I haven’t slept that late in years. But I don’t mind. Gives me time to think. What I was thinking about is a quote from Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. We are visiting the NextFest exhibition tommorow and I know the Möller Skycar will be there on display. I can pretty well see the difference between this advanced technology and magic...
read moreThe smell
New York smells different. I have been here 3 times before and I notice it every time. I wonder if I can capture it and take it with me. New York fragrance?
read more6 hours, 3 movies and 1 screaming kid
I watched ‘Mission Impossible 3′ then ’16 blocks’ and finally ‘Firewall’. MI3 was actually better then I expected. ’16 Blocks’ was kind of ok and I had such low expectations for ‘Firewall’ that that one much better than I expected too. Just next to me were a german couple with a screaming kid. But now that I have travelled with a kid myself thr crying and screaming didn’t bother me at all. I just watched the movie or read my book. We just arrived in Manhattan and checked into...
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