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Viva la Revolucion!

Saturday, August 9, 2008

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We bought 15 iPhones in San Francisco last year for all our friends. Last Friday Patrick and I went to the T-Mobile store and bought iPhones. They didn’t have them in stock so we will have to wait for a few weeks before we actually get them. There are several reason why you could get [...]

Kill your darlings…

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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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. [...]

Kings of Code!

Monday, May 19, 2008

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Developers are cool. They know stuff that I don’t. I look up to developers. I would love to be a great developer! I can build stuff in PHP but don’t actually ‘understand’ it like real developers do. In other words, I’m not a King of Code. But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the Kings of [...]

OpenIdea: Taxati.com

Monday, April 21, 2008

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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 [...]

Beta 3 - Fleck 2.0

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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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 Skitch!

The Future of Web Apps: More Browsers

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

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As broadband becomes ubiquitous it becomes more and more interesting to use online applications. Your data is safe and always available and you don’t have to worry about software versions and back-ups. Recently I have started to move my important documents to Google Docs. The fact that is is so easy to work together on [...]

Learn, unlearn and relearn

Sunday, March 2, 2008

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About a month ago I received this quote in my inbox from Max Shapiro that I can’t seem to get out of my head. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler I think I’m still young but even I [...]

Free WordPress Plugin: “100 SEO tips”

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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I have just published the “100 SEO tips” WordPress plugin I mentioned before. You can get it at The Next Web Blog. While you are over there please Digg the article and leave a comment with your Blog URL if you installed it.

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