My presentation at Sprout ChallengerDay 2007
Last year I did a presentation during Sprout ChallengerDay on November 1, 2007. I talked about innovation, big companies and told an anecdote about how hard it is for big companies to innovate. More than 500 people were there and it was the first edition of the ‘Sprout ChallengerDay’ event. I just received the video and uploaded it so you can watch it too. It is a Dutch presentation but the main story is one I blogged about before in a post titled “Big Companies VS Small Companies on Innovation” so read that if you...
read moreWordPress iPhone App
Trying out the iPhone app for WordPress on my iPod touch. Works pretty well but cle arly a 0.1 product. Can’t find out how to delete blogs and adding a new blog publishes an empty post. Besides that it does make the iPhone and iPod touch extra interesting for bloggers. It also let’s you add photos or screenshots to new posts, as you can see: (updated the posts slightly afterward so it looked better. I aligned the image right instead of posting it beneath the...
read moreThe Mouse & The Elephant
In 1995 I remember seeing a documentary where they interviewed Bill Gates. He was asked if he was fearing competition from other big software companies. His answer was that he didn’t fear any of the big companies around. He said that the threat to a big company is not in the other big companies, but in the smaller companies slowly undermining the foundations of the business that his big company was built upon. He pointed out the window at the lawn down below and said something like “Up from here it is hard to see the really small...
read moreKill your darlings…
This post was written for the Fleck.com blog where I posted it on March 16, 2006. I’m posting it here so it is more easily accesible. The original post can still be found here, including some comments and pingbacks. This last week I have been trying to finish the layout for the main user interface screens. And I just couldn’t finish them. I kept postponing my work, checking my mail, staring out the window and finding reasons to do other things instead. At first I thought I just had a (code)writers block but after 3 days I still...
read moreNationaal ICT Event 2008 (-50%)
Dutch only message: Zoals eerder beschreven ben ik op 22 mei (ja ja, morgen al!) dagvoorzitter bij het Nationaal ICT Event 2008. Er zijn een hoop leuke sprekers en het zou leuk zijn als het NOG drukker zou zijn als afgelopen jaren. Heb je zin om te komen meld dan je dan aan als mijn relatie en je krijgt 50% korting op de 99 euro toegangsprijs. Gewoon ‘Boris’ invullen bij ‘couponcode’ in het inschrijfformulier en je betaald dus maar 50 euro. Hopelijk tot...
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