Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

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Today is my first blogging anniversary! On July 29, 2006 at 5:43 pm I posted my first blog post on bomega.com titled "The Internet Entrepreneur". Since then I have written 571 posts (an average of 1,5 posts per day) and received 1,572 comments (an average of 2,7 comments per post). My posts have received 77,686 unique visitors in the last 365 days. I still get a lot of satisfaction from blogging. It helps me get my ideas out there and I enjoy all the feedback I get from people. I fully...

We Are All: Twittering Anonymous

This is just a quick experiment: a public Twitter account which everyone can use to post anonymous updates. Simply email your thoughts to we_are_all@twittermail.com and it will appear online. Check this page to see the first results:...

Total Loss of Structural Integrity

Ever watch Seconds from Disaster? Then the term 'Structural Integrity' might sound familiar. It happens when the structure of an airplane or building is damaged. Instead of a solid structure it becomes a collection of disconnected parts often leading to some kind of disaster. The term kept coming up while I was putting together some IKEA furniture this weekend. I don't want to complain about IKEA and generally love the whole concept. No problem here with missing screws or unclear...

Imagination, and a Pile of Junk…

Often when we launch new projects (Recently TwitterMail.com and TwitterMSN.com) people want to know if it is a serious plan and how we plan to make money with it. Often I don't have an answer to that question and some people hate that. I receive comments that my plan will surely fail because the commenter can't see a way to make money with it. It is easy to ignore these comments and I usually do. But I was browsing through my Quotes file (4000+ quotes) this morning and found this classic one...

TwitterMSN.com – Just Launched

Almost More than 1000 people use TwitterMail.com right now and more than 4000 messages have been posted to Twitter.com with TwitterMail. Time to introduce something new! Lennaert and Bram have been working on a 'MSN to Twitter' service and just launched their product (in beta, of-course) named TwitterMSN.com. I have been testing it today and it works flawlessly. This is another feature that was sorely missing from Twitter.com and it is great that it is available now. Twitter.com also...

A Two Way Internet

Patrick did an interview with Los Creador. It is a blog which publishes a new interview with a internet company founder every week. This week Patrick talks about Fleck and how it was inspired on a story written by Vannevar Bush way back in 1945 and how he got a vision to create a two-way internet. It is an in depth interview and focuses on vision a lot. Go and check it out and don't forget to digg it...

Europe’s Top Young Entrepreneurs 2007

BusinessWeek went on a quest to find Europe's hottest young entrepreneurs, all under the age of 25. Today they announced their top 5, which includes Statcounter, Wakoopa and Kwiqq. As you can imagine the Wakoopa guys are thrilled to be among the 25 chosen for the article and they plan to celebrate this tomorrow during the Amsterdam OpenCoffee by giving away free champagne and iPhones to the first 10 people there. Or maybe I'm just making that up. Read the Businessweek article and don't...

Safari + Website = 50% of 15% of Revenue

A few days ago I tried to buy a ticket for the 'Trendwatcher van het jaar' but the form didn't seem to work. It turned out that the designer used non standard CSS which worked fine in Explorer and Firefox but broke some parts of the navigation in Safari. I contacted the organization and told them they were missing revenue because a certain percentage of their visitors couldn't use their website. They answered that they were aware of the problem but that most visitors used Explorer so they...