VPN: I need one!
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 keep my passwords to myself. If you don’t mind. And because I work at public hotspots a lot I know that anyone (with some knowledge of Wi-Fi) could catch all my usernames and password out of thin air. What I need is a VPN connection. I think. I actually...
read moreWired: “Dandies on their way to a garden party…”
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 special enough for Wired. So you can imagine that I jumped out of bed and ran to my computer to see what was up. There is a large article in this months issue of Wired Magazine about Michael Arrington. The title is “TechCrunch Blogger Michael...
read moreTwitterMail.com – Alive and Kicking
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 to collect links to articles written about TwitterMail. If I forget any please let me know. The first one: Bright.nl: TwitterMail maakt mobiel twitteren nog makkelijker The first second one: Naweb2.com: twittermail...
read moreSocial Networking Etiquette
I have 470 contacts at LinkedIn, 50 friends at Hyves and 114 Friends and 185 Followers in Twitter and 1096 contacts in my AddressBook. What I need is a set of rules to manage my Social Networking contacts. Unfortunately most people don’t take the effort to introduce themselves in their requests to get connected. This led me to blindly accept any request I get from any of the networks. It is just too much effort to find out who these people are who invite me. even if I check their profile at LinkedIn I’m still clueless most of the...
read moreCoffee with Onno Bakker from eBuddy
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...
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