Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Not the end of social networking!

In september I wrote a blog post titled "The end of social networking". It was quoted on a few blogs and I got a lot of, euh, feedback from people who either slightly disagreed or fanatically agreed. Anyway, the title was slightly misleading because I didn't exactly say that I thought that all Social Networks would end. What I said (or wanted to say) was that social networking just for the sake of social networking is not going to be interesting very long. The novelty will be gone pretty...

RSS readers VS Website readers?

Michael Arrington said an interesting thing during The Next Web Conference. Casually he mentioned that he wasn't interested in page views or website visits but only in RSS feed readers. He did know how many page loads he had a month but the number he was really interested in where his RSS feed readers. Not long after The Next Web Conference I decided to start writing this blog. I have been blogging for years but always on different projects. I think the first real blog I managed was the...

Photo: wine and pasta spilled on shirt and suit

wine and pasta. Photo by Daniel J. Ashes. My good friend Daniel J. Ashes was using my house as a studio today and I asked him if he could shoot some photos for me. He asked me if I had an idea for something special so I explained to him that I am having these diner parties at my house and I wanted to have a photo I could use for the invitations. The idea I had was to make a photo of me, in a good suit, covered in pasta. Daniel liked the idea and had a few minutes left so I quickly...

mmmzr: innovative new ad model

I just read about mmmzr: double your traffic on Seth Godin's blog. Very interesting new businessmodel. I wonder how many copycats this will inspire over the next few...

Business News Radio then ParaPlay

Yesterday was a busy evening. I went straight to the studio of Business News Radio from the office and had diner in Dauphine, alone. Then we did the show. Herbert Blankesteijn interviewed me and Joris from Woophy and Stef from Bliin about the digitale pioniers price that they both won. Then I went home to pick up Tessa to go to the Paraplay party. The party was in Paradiso and a lot of friends showed up. The Paraplay application worked great and it was very funny to see all the matches and...

The DEFINITIVE guide to Airline WiFi and Internet Access

Looks like we booked the wrong plane: The DEFINITIVE guide to Airline WiFi and Internet Access No Wi-Fi on Delta...

Me, MySpace and iPod

My daughter goes to school with the kids of the director of Boom Chicago and she invited me to come and see their new show titled "Me, MySpace and iPod". She knows what I do for a living and thought the show might be interesting for me. She even got me tickets for the premiere but I was in the US that day so I couldn't go. Now we have tickets for monday november 20th. I have heard that it is a great show and actually very funny so I'm looking forward to seeing...

ParaPlay: final warning

If you haven't done it already please go to ParaPlay now and sign up and download the application. Even if you aren't goingyour music choices will make my evening better! This is how it works: you download Paraplay, it syncs the list of most often played numbers in iTunes to the Paraplay server and the tp 100 of all songs will be played in Paradiso...