Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Connectivity as a Utility and other news

There were two news items that made a huge impression on me this week. The first was that Apple sales of Leopard exceeded sales of Vista in Japan in October. Apple has been a niche player for decades but this might be a turning point: In the six days after Leopard's 26 October launch, combined single-user licence (46 per cent) and family pack (7.9 per cent) sales accounted for 53.9 per cent of the total OS-only market in Japan. However, at Microsoft, Windows sales fell from 75.3 per...

5 Tips: Efficiently Communicating Your New Contact Data

A few months ago I received a message from someone I once met. He had moved from one company to another and wanted to let me (and the 400 other recipients in the To: field) know his new contact details. I opened the message and included was a 1.2 megabyte JPG with his new contact details, in an image. Can you imagine how inconvenient that is? Ever since then I have been paying special attention to how people communicate their new addresses and have now decided to write a 'How to' about the...

Floating House

YouTube - Floating House We just noticed this floating house outside our offices....

Make some noise…

My two daughters can generate a lot of noise. But nothing (so far) beats the sound of an exploding volcano. Last night I watched a documentary on the Krakatoa eruption in 1883. It generated the loudest noise (up to 180 dBSPL) ever recorded. From Wikipedia: Krakatoa: The 1883 eruption ejected more than 25 cubic kilometres of rock, ash, and pumice, and generated the loudest sound ever historically reported — the cataclysmic explosion was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in...

Looking back at blogging in 2006

I didn't start blogging in 2006 but I did start my own personal blog here in 2006. The first blog I had was a photoblog, before that was even invented, in 1996. Since then I have had homepages, websites and blogs but last year I decided to start blogging in a central place, here on Bomega.com. My first post on Bomega on July 29, 2006 at 5:43 pm (157 days ago according to TimeAndDate.com) was titled "The Internet Entrepreneur". Statistics since then: 223 posts 1,42038 average posts per...

RSS readers VS Website readers?

Michael Arrington said an interesting thing during The Next Web Conference. Casually he mentioned that he wasn't interested in page views or website visits but only in RSS feed readers. He did know how many page loads he had a month but the number he was really interested in where his RSS feed readers. Not long after The Next Web Conference I decided to start writing this blog. I have been blogging for years but always on different projects. I think the first real blog I managed was the...

How to add 10 extra points to your IQ in 3 seconds

I wish I was smarter. I really do. If I could upgrade my brain somewhere I would do it right away. If have no idea what my IQ is but I'm sure it could be a lot higher. But I do know one way to look and be a lot smarter. And it takes only 3 seconds. When I was a kid my mother once showed me that politicians never answer a question straight away. They always say 'that is a good question and I am glad you asked it' or 'you are asking me(insert question) and I'm going to answer that question once...