Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Trendwatcher of the Year Awards

On July 26th eYe and Ruigrok Netpanel organize the 'Trendwatcher of the Year' awards. Adjiedj Bakas, Carl Rohde, Reinier Evers, Frank Janssen and Hilde Roothart are all nominated. I am having dinner with Adjiedj Bakas August 28. We worked together as jury members for an elevator pitch show on AT5. If you are planning to go to the awards let me know so we can meet each other there. There is also a small party and Fashion Show by Joline Jolink after the award ceremony so don't miss...

Why We Bought Apple Options?

Yahoo! FinanceQuote for AAPL/ A few weeks ago Patrick and I were talking about the iPhone. I explained that I thought there were two possible scenarios for the iPhone: 1: it would be a disappointment and the stock would return to its $80 pre iPhone value. 2: it would be everything we hoped for and more... If the iPhone wouldn't disappoint, I told Patrick, it would mean that Apple would suddenly be 50% more valuable. Before the iPhone they did two things: Build computers and iPods....

How To Turn A Gadget Into A Tool

Boulevard du Temple, taken by Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839 in Paris, was the first photograph of a person. The image shows a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is the man at the bottom left, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show. (click photo to enlarge) Gadgets are cool. Some tools are cool too. I like owning beautiful and useful tools and gadgets. But I also think that...

Seedcamp!

About a week ago, Saul Klein (Index ventures) and Reshma Sohoni (3i) started a new pan European initiative for startups and talented entrepreneurs titled SeedCamp. Read the initial Seedcamp post for more information about this great initiative. At The Next Web 2008 edition we will host Showcases of successful/promising European companies, just like we did on the 2006 and 2007 edition where previously Netvibes, Hyves, esnips, Widsets, Respectance, Zyb, Mobiya, eBuddy and several other hot...

SideNight: O’Reilly and Friends

Last night we hosted a SideNight at my house for Brady Forrest and Jen Pahlka from O’Reilly Media. They were visiting Amsterdam to get in touch with the European webscene in advance of their Web2.0 Expo in Berlin. We had a great evening and I want to thank everybody for being there. Blog post by Mark de Kock: The next web O Reilly dinner Photos by Thomas van der Weerd on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/thms/ Photos by Marjolijn Hoekstra on...

The Next Web O’Reilly dinner

Brady Forrest and Jen Pahlka off O'Reilly Media are visiting Amsterdam to get in touch with the European webscene in advance of their Web2.0 Expo in Berlin.A good reason to invite some people over for dinner.Other guests are Onno Bakker eBuddy, Terry Mader (UPC), Marco Derksen (Marketingfacts), Don Crowley (blognation), Annette Knijnenberg (ilse Media), Toon Branbergen (ilse Media), Oscar Kneppers (Bright), Nicolette van Dijk (Elsevier), Ammy Vogtlander (BlueInsights), Robert Gaal (Wakoopa),...

Flock – New Version!

Flock just launched a new version (0.9) of its browser. I'm going to give it a try again. Flock wasn't doing to well as a Browser company but have revamped their website, rethought their focus and are coming back with a simpler and less techy browser. Give it a try: Flock - the social web...

Young Entrepreneurs of the World

Uploaded with Skitch!Yesterday I received an email from Brian Acord who is the Executive Director at Young Entrepreneurs of America. He asked my permission to copy some of my posts to their blog. I was flattered and gave him permission to copy whatever he found interesting provided he would link to my blog. Last night he used a post I wrote for Startupping.com titled 'My Best Decision and Worst Mistake!'. Mark Fletcher asked several Entrepreneurs to write about this subject and you can a...