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Archive | June, 2007

bright tv

Thursday, June 28, 2007

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We are guests at the pilot show for Bright TV.

Twitter down? Use TwitterMail!

Thursday, June 28, 2007

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Twitter.com is down again but people are starting to figure out that TwitterMail saves your messages and submits them to Twitter.com as soon as it is up again. This is a feature of TwitterMail that we didn’t advertise a lot but it turns out to be pretty cool and useful in situations like this. Only downside [...]

MoMB: TwitterMail & Quote of the Month!

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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Saurier Duval is the owner and founder of The Museum of Modern Betas. he has been collecting webservices that are in Beta for years now. He has covered Fleck.com and all other services we launched in beta over the years. Today I received a message from him that he added TwitterMail to The Museum of Modern [...]

How Free = More Money

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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Patrick and I spent a few months in 2006 visiting every Mobile Operator in the Netherlands to see if we could convince them to start selling us Location Based Services. We told them that we wanted to be their first customers and that we would love to resell their services for them. The reasoning was that [...]

TwitterMail: Live!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

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After a bumpy ride we can finally declare TwitterMail live. Moving the domain from one server to the other 48 hours before launch wasn’t too smart. Oh well… But it all seems to work fine now! Give it a try if you want and please give me feedback here. So far more than 100 people are [...]

VPN: I need one!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

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Privacy is overrated. I have been saying that for a while now. But there are some things that deserve to be private. My mail in general is not secret. If you want to read it you can come over and I will give you an hour behind my computer. Read whatever you want. But I do want to [...]

Wired: “Dandies on their way to a garden party…”

Monday, June 25, 2007

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This morning I woke up and the first thing I read was a message from Scott Rafer with subject “you made wired!!!” I once told Scott that my biggest wish would be to make it to the cover of Wired magazine. It would mean that I would have done something so special that it would be [...]

TwitterMail.com - Alive and Kicking

Sunday, June 24, 2007

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Tomorrow TwitterMail.com will be officially launched. I, and a bunch of other people, have been testing it all weekend and I’m confident it will work just great. The official launch won’t be that spectacular but we do plan to contact some blogs and news-sites and try to get a small buzz going. I will use this post [...]

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