Breakfast with Steve Ballmer
A friend of mine just told me about his meeting with Steve Ballmer a few weeks ago. He works at a very innovative start-up and Microsoft was interested in their technology. You’ll forgive me if I don’t mention the name of the company or my friend. They met Steve Ballmer during a breakfast session and were given 30 minutes. They prepared a presentation which highlighted the technical aspects of their technology and were prepared for some tough questions. It turned out that Ballmer was only interested in the big and broad vision and...
read morePublic Speaking Tommorow…
Tommorow I will be a keynote speaker at the Week van de Ondernemer in Utrecht. There will be two 20 minute sessions where I will get a chance to impress (or bore) quite an audience. I have been told that only CEOs and people who own companies will be there. I always look forward to performances like this and already feel a strange kind of excitement when I think about tommorow. A few weeks ago I posted about this conference and asked for tips, questions and suggestions which I can use to make my performance better. I received a few comments...
read moreBizarre Spam Problem?
Here is the thing: I have an email address (boris@ipan.nl) which works fine. Saskia also has an email address (saskia@ipan.nl) and that doesn’t work fine. Some people (30%) get an immediate error from their SMTP or MAIL server. It says: Cannot send message using the server mail.xs4all.nl The server response was: 5.1.1 <saskia@ipan.nl>… No such user The interesting thing is that the mailserver seems to reject the emailaddress right away without even accepting it. Normally email just gets delivered at the server where the...
read moreThe dark side of blogging?
This Saturday at the Web2.0 meeting in The Balie I said “Privacy is overrated” and got some good laughs from the audience. Just now I read something that takes the fun out of that remark. Kathy Sierra received death threats on her blog and via other blogs and has canceled her public performances. Scoble has decided to stop blogging for a week. I wouldn’t think of stopping in a time like this and would rather blog twice as much to show my outrage. But I do respect Scobles initiative and hope more intiatives will follow. UPDATE...
read moreLive at the Balie…
In about an hour there is going to be a public discussion here in ‘de Balie’. The other speakers are Ine Poppe, Tonie van Ringelestijn, Trebor Schultz, me and Joop Laan. Mark Deuze wil join us from SF via iChat. The evening is sold out. Not bad for a saturday evening. I hope I can keep awake because I took all the drugs I could find to get me through the evening. My ears still hurt and I feel feverish. UPDATE: here are a few links to blogs and photos from the event: Blueace (Sjors Timmer): De achterkant van web2.0; Een...
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