Learn, unlearn and relearn
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 am sometimes overwhelmed by new technologies and get tired at the thought of having to ‘unlearn’ my old habits and ‘relearn’ another new exciting technique. They say you are never too old to learn but...
read moreFree WordPress Plugin: “100 SEO tips”
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...
read moreIs This a Feature OR a Company?
I have often heard people (including myself) say “That isn’t enough to build a company on. That is just a feature”. In theory it is good to think about this. Is your idea or technology something you can build a company on or just something interesting that might be added to another company or product? But in reality things work differently. Yahoo started as a page with links to websites. Can you imagine that someone said “Yeah that is nice. But it is just a feature. You can’t build a company on a page with...
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 moreMy 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...
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