Episode number three: GURUS
My third talkshow episode. this one with Stefan Fountain and Mathys van Abbe....
read moreStock Market Advice? Don’t ask me!
Today I was featured as an ‘expert’ on stock markets in a Dutch TV show. They asked my opinion and I said “Opinions are just like assholes… everybody has one” and they used that in the show. Check it out, in Dutch only…
read moreAchieving (and living with) Perfect Knowledge
On September 21 I was relaxing in the sun with Tessa and Loïs. I was drinking Tonic water which is flavored with quinine which gives it a distinctively bitter taste. Loïs wanted to taste it and Tessa wondered out loud ‘do you think quinine could be bad for children?’. I thought “Well, maybe it is. Quinine is a fever-reducing chemical and the first effective treatment for malaria“. But I didn’t know if it was bad for children so I simply said: ‘Look it up’. We both own an iPhone so within seconds...
read moreDeath, Nalden.net, TwitterKeys, TV, Radio & the Kashmir pouch
If I’m not blogging that surely doesn’t mean nothing is happening! Here are a few links to what I’m doing and what happened: An old friend, Mark Hoekstra, died this week. Too young. Way too young! We did the Slurpr project together and he used my old iPhone and turned it into the first all black iPhone in the world: http://www.bright.nl/in-memoriam-mark-hoekstra Nalden.net published my top 10 music of all time and a short story about me: http://www.nalden.net/#/audio/414/ I invented TwitterKeys last week and it became the...
read moreBlast from the past
In 2003 I sold my Wi-Fi Hotspot company to Dutch telephone operator KPN. One of the first things we did (we = me and my partners Koen & Caspar) after we signed the contract was to install HotSpots in the lobby of the main KPN building. The boxes we hid the Wi-Fi equipment in were shaped in the form of our logo. I was very proud to see them installed there! Then, after a few months, we parted ways and KPN completely restructured the company once I was out of the picture. I heard that most of the people working there were replaced (or...
read moreV3.com VS TwitterCounter.com
In 1997 I started working on an idea I had for a redirect service based on domains from Tonga. I registered come.to, surf.to and welcome.to and together with two friends (Hans-Poul and Eric) we started a company called V3.com. We ended up selling our company in 1999 to Fortunecity. That is a short version of that story as I have talked about it a lot before. What I wanted to talk about is how similar V3.com was to TwitterCounter.com. Don’t get me wrong: they served completely different purposes and technically they were very different...
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