Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Beta 3 – Fleck 2.0

We are extremely busy with The Next Web Conference 2008 but that doesn't mean we don't work on our other projects too. If you feel lucky you might want to play around with our new and improved Fleck.com service. Officially in beta at http://beta3.fleck.com/ Screenshot: Uploaded with plasq's...

New projects: WordPress Plug-in & Captchatising.com

I started working on two new projects today. 1: Captchatising.com As you might have noticed on The Next Web Blog we use the names of our advertisers instead of random characters. Easier for people to understand, great for our advertisers and just as hard for spammers. Today Diederik persuaded me to actually start a new project to develop this for other blogs too. We will build the platform and try to attract advertisers to advertise on blogs hosting our CAPTCHAs. Now we only have to find...

The Next Web Blog

This has been a busy week. Last night I visited the Hyves party and a few people mentioned that I didn't blog much this week. Vincent Everts told me he assumed I was on a holiday because of the silence. Well, no holiday for me! Just busy with a few of our new projects. One of them is the The Next Web Blog. As you know we organize The Next Web Conference and we also kept up a blog for each conference. These conference blogs are very popular the few weeks before the conference but are hard to...

Now THIS is what they should teach in school!

We are all addicted to this little game at the office. I only wish they would have given me this while in school, before I dropped out. Play at your own risk: UPDATE: forgot to mention (thanks Patrick) that we discovered this game by using the new version of Fleck. The new version allows you to share everything you find and annotate with groups. Works very...

My Blog on an iPhone

If you own an iPhone you can now read this blog optimized for it. I installed the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme by ContentRobot which automatically shows you an optimized theme if you are visiting this blog on an iPhone. Installing it was very easy and my blog looks very nice on the iPhone now. They should offer this software to every site...

Amsterdam Style: Tessa!

Tessa got spotted on her way to the Post CS building (where my office is) a few days ago by the people from Dam Style blog. They thought she was representative for hip Dutch girls and asked if they could make a photo of...

Am I, or Am I Not, Your Friend?

Remember back in school when someone would come up to you and ask 'Do you want to be my friend' Didn't that feel awkward? Friendship is something that grows between people. It is not a black and white thing. With real friends you don't have to declare your friendship. You feel there is a bond between you and someone and maybe one day you will describe this person as 'my friend' and suddenly realize that you have become friends! These days I receive several 'Friend requests' every...

The Ultimate Diet Formula

I love diets. They are the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. Once you start following a diet to lose weight, you actually start losing weight! How incredible? Not really! It is just the Hawthorne Effect doing its magic: An attempt was made to measure the difference between two methods of management during the 1930s at the Hawthorne plant. The attempt failed because the workers impoved their efforts immensely for both methods. This was because they knew they were being watched...