Slurpr demo for Werner Vogels
Yesterday evening I had some people over for dinner including Werner Vogels. He is the CTO of Amazon.com. He noticed my Slurpr and wanted to know what it does and how it worked. I showed the device and told him all about it. Then he persuaded me to pitch the device on video for him. This was at the end of the evening after a lot of champagne and wine and I was very tired. The...
read moreOpenIdea: 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. The price they got per square meter (€4191)...
read moreBeta 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...
read moreNew 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 someone to build it and someone to manage it....
read moreThe 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 maintain after the conference ends. We all get...
read moreNow 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...
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