Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

OpenIdea: Taxati.com

Someone once told me that there are two happy moment in the life of a boat owner: the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it. The rest is spent fixing, moving, cleaning and worrying about the boat. I noticed that most real-estate websites concentrate on these two moments (buy & sell) when it comes to home owners. All these websites try to make money when people want to buy or sell their house. That means that most people rarely need them. My upstairs neighbors just sold their house....

San Francisco; here I come…

"Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream. Georges Pompidou This Sunday Ernst-Jan and I will get on a plane, sleep for 11 hours, and then wake up in San Francisco. We will attend the O'Reilly Web2Expo and every party we can talk our way into. We will be staying at the Handlery Union Square Hotel Our itinerary on...

How do you entertain rappers?

Well, you show them the booty... The story: Daniel J. Ashes was doing a photoshoot in my house with SpaceKees, Turk and Jiggy Djé (Noah's Ark label) and asked me to entertain them for a minute or two so he could make a few photos of them laughing. I had to improvise but my guess is they enjoyed my...

Another Shoeshine Event: This Friday!

A few weeks ago I spent a few hours shoeshining (Story and Photos) at the New Tailor shop in Amsterdam. This Friday we are going to repeat the same event but we will start at 4pm and have some drinks with it too. If you want to join us just leave a comment here so we know how much champagne to buy! And, free shoeshines by me for everyone! Dutch Invitation: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten komt schoenen poetsen In navolging van de eerdere succesvole zaterdagochtendsessies kunt u...

On the evening news last night

Dutch social network received a large investment yesterday. They couldn't find the founders so the Dutch evening news decided to visit The Next Web Conference and ask a few influential Internet experts their opinion. Guess who they found... ;-) Good NOS quality version: Lousy quality Youtube version: ...