Almost every morning you can find me at the terrace outside of a small coffeebar called Nero at the Vijzelgracht in Amsterdam.

The Vijzelgracht is an important street and a lot of people use it to get to work. I waved at a few start-up founders (visitopia.com, eBuddy, draftworldwide) and other friends. This morning Onno Bakker from eBuddy ended up joining me for coffee.

He told me this funny story about how his mother uses Hyves.nl now but once had trouble with email. She had sent him two messages. The first one ended with “I’m going to tell you the rest in another message because this screen is full”. She continued her story in her second message.

And now she uses social networking. Isn’t that cool?

I’m installing WordPress for my mother. She wants to start blogging and is tired of her static website because she can’t easily update it herself.