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 [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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 [...]
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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 [...]
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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 [...]
Saturday, March 24, 2007
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 [...]
Friday, March 23, 2007
Last week I wrote about the word Monocarpic which means to bloom once and then die. How sad. This week I heard someone use the term ‘Scotoma’. I decided to look into it because it is a nice illustration of a common Entrepreneurs problem. But first: Scotoma An area of diminished vision within the visual field. You might [...]
Thursday, March 22, 2007
You may have noticed a bit of new content in my blog sidebar. I’m experimenting with a couple of new services which have been launched recently. One is the Auction Ads service pictured here. Auction Ads displays ads to eBay articles on your blog similar to Amazon does with their widget. I don’t think I [...]
Thursday, March 22, 2007
My ears hurt and I can’t hear very well. My head is buzzing and I’m cold and shivering. Faye is keeping me company on the couch and when she noticed I was wearing my bathrobe she went looking for hers. Now we are enjoying ourselves with my Blackberry Pearl camera (the onyl Camera I have [...]
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