Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Funkalicious ft. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Last Friday, during Blog08, the band (Love O.D.) invited me to play along during one of their songs. I happily accepted and did my first even music performance. I feel like a rock star now... Love O.D. - Funkalicious ft. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten from Love O.D. UPDATE: The sex-appeal generally associated with rock stars seems to be working for me too! I made it to Dutch Cowgirls! http://www.dutchcowgirls.nl/events/858 UPDATE 2: Check all the other songs they played at the Love...

Second edition of GURUS

This is my second talkshow GURUS edition. My guests were Oscar Kneppers (http://bright.nl) and Ernst-Jan Pfauth (http://thenextweb.org). Something funny happens in the first 2 minutes so be sure to check that out! ...

Death, Nalden.net, TwitterKeys, TV, Radio & the Kashmir pouch

If I'm not blogging that surely doesn't mean nothing is happening! Here are a few links to what I'm doing and what happened: An old friend, Mark Hoekstra, died this week. Too young. Way too young! We did the Slurpr project together and he used my old iPhone and turned it into the first all black iPhone in the world: http://www.bright.nl/in-memoriam-mark-hoekstra Nalden.net published my top 10 music of all time and a short story about me: http://www.nalden.net/#/audio/414/ I...

Blast from the past

In 2003 I sold my Wi-Fi Hotspot company to Dutch telephone operator KPN. One of the first things we did (we = me and my partners Koen & Caspar) after we signed the contract was to install HotSpots in the lobby of the main KPN building. The boxes we hid the Wi-Fi equipment in were shaped in the form of our logo. I was very proud to see them installed there! Then, after a few months, we parted ways and KPN completely restructured the company once I was out of the picture. I heard that most of...

Viva la Revolucion!

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 an iPhone but I want to talk about one reason in particular in this post. By buying, using and developing for the iPhone right now you can participate in the start of a new era in computing. Yep, I'm serious....

V3.com VS TwitterCounter.com

In 1997 I started working on an idea I had for a redirect service based on domains from Tonga. I registered come.to, surf.to and welcome.to and together with two friends (Hans-Poul and Eric) we started a company called V3.com. We ended up selling our company in 1999 to Fortunecity. That is a short version of that story as I have talked about it a lot before. What I wanted to talk about is how similar V3.com was to TwitterCounter.com. Don't get me wrong: they served completely different...

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...

Famous Failures

...