BeFunky Invites
We just met Tolga Birdal who is the chief engineer of BeFunky.com. He gave us a few invitations to the closed beta of their very cool service. Get them while they are hot and still working: TECH9128763 TECH5698643 TECH8493692 TECH9505856 TECH9513091 Activate them at BeFunky.com and if you use one of these codes please do leave a comment so other people know they are taken. UPDATE: Tekin Tatar just sent me another bunch of codes. Send me an email if you want a code and I will supply you one. First come, first serve… UPDATE II (October 10)...
read moreVideo: The difference between men and women
In 1995 I appeared in a new and controversial TV show titled Waskracht. I opened the show with two short movies in which I gave ‘Tips for a better world’. The idea was that to make a better world I would explain the difference between men and women. So the first episode was about the female orgasm and the second one about menstruation. (Wonder what that sentence will do for my search engine results) They are in Dutch and without subtitles and (probably) not suitable for work. Tips voor een betere wereld 1 Tips voor een betere...
read moreprofile.to/bomega
In 1997 I started a company called V3 Redirect Services with Eric Visser and Hans Poul Veldhuyzen van Zanten. We bought domainnames in Tonga like come.to, surf.to and go.to and offered people free short urls like http://come.to/boris which we would redirect to their homepages. We sold that company in 1999 and after that I saw the market for redirect companies decline. I figured that since domain names are so cheap now there wouldn’t be a any demand for these services anymore. But it seems I was wrong. I just noticed (on the Digital...
read moreiPhone Hacking
On Friday we arrived in San Francisco. We dumped our baggage in our hotel-room and walked to the Apple store to buy 2 iPhones. Within 30 minutes we were back in our room hacking away at our shiny new gadgets. Now it is 48 hours later and we are still in the same hotel-room surrounded by empty coca cola bottles and Twix wrappers. The iPhones STILL don’t work with our european SIM cards. Numerous experts have tried to help us but no luck so far. Every time we try another solution something goes wrong which screws the whole process...
read moreLeaving for San Francisco
Yesterday we hosted a huge dinner party (SideNight) at my parents house in Rotterdam with a bunch of active Dutch Twitterers and Biz Stone. Biz is one of the founders of Twitter and he was a keynote speaker at e.day. Today we are flying to San Francisco. Next week we are going to attend Techcrunch20 and we will be having some meetings with several Internet Entrepreneurs and a few companies to talk about The Next Web Conference, Fleck.com and some other projects. I will keep blogging, Twittering and sending photos to Flickr for the duration of...
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