Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

The Next Web Dinner

Tonight we had all the speakers for The Next Web Conference at my house. Diederik from Twones helped me in the kitchen and ended up doing most of the cooking. All the speakers helped with everything. In this photo you can see Dick Hardt doing the dishes with Patrick. Even Rod Beckström dropped in at the end of the evening just in time for desert. other guests were Jeff Clavier, Scott Rafer, Tapan Bath, Terry Mader and Lars, Sjors Timmer, Arjen Schat, Marc and Lisa Canter and their...

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Digg Frontpage: Slurpr.com!

Yes, since a few minutes the Slurpr is frontpage news on Digg.com. Thanks again Mark! You did a great...

The Slurpr – Mother Of All Wi-fi Access Points!

Press Release - May 29, 2007 On June 1, 2007 Mark Hoekstra (geektechnique.org) will preview The Slurpr at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam. The Slurpr is a high speed Wi-Fi broadband router that takes up to six available Wi-Fi channels and combines them into one free and ultra broadband connection. Fast and Free Internet Access with just one box! Now you can enjoy the great advantages and comfort that come with a high speed internet connection, all for free. The Slurpr...

49999

This morning I visited my site and noticed that there were exactely 49999 votes for the Next Web Awards... By the time I was writing this post there were more than 50000 vites but I did make a screenshot just in time. If you haven't voted yet do it...

The Next Web Documentary

Watch this iChat Video interview with 5 Internet Influentials who answer 5 basic questions in almost 20 minutes. Tim O'Reilly from O'Reilly Media, Steve Rubel from Edelman and Micropersuasion, Matt Mullenweg the founder of WordPress, Marten Mickos the CEO of MySQL and Jay Adelson, CTO and co-founder of Digg.com all give their opinion and share their insights on what the Next Web will look like. And don't forget to buy your ticket! because the conference is THIS Friday! Graciously...

B&O Phone

This morning I bumped into an old friend at the Village Bagels. He is one of the hippest product designers I know and he is currently working on his 'dream assignment'. A top secret project to design a new phone. And that is all he can tell me really. But ever since he started working on this project he has been showing me new phones. Every time we meet he is testing and reconstructing another one. So today he brought a brand new B&O phone for me to play with. I showed him my...

Next Web Documentary – Done?

I spent most of my weekend working on a sort of documentary we decided to make to promote The Next Web Conference. We interviewed a bunch of Internet Influentials and asked them 5 basic questions. The result is a 20 minute movie with very interesting insights. As you can see I am compressing the movie in iMovie right now. iMovie is a great application as long as you try to keep things simple and use standard stuff.  I didn't want to keep things too simple and didn't want to use any of...