Stock Market Advice? Don’t ask me!
Today I was featured as an ‘expert’ on stock markets in a Dutch TV show. They asked my opinion and I said “Opinions are just like assholes… everybody has one” and they used that in the show. Check it out, in Dutch only…
read moreSecond 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...
read moreAchieving (and living with) Perfect Knowledge
On September 21 I was relaxing in the sun with Tessa and Loïs. I was drinking Tonic water which is flavored with quinine which gives it a distinctively bitter taste. Loïs wanted to taste it and Tessa wondered out loud ‘do you think quinine could be bad for children?’. I thought “Well, maybe it is. Quinine is a fever-reducing chemical and the first effective treatment for malaria“. But I didn’t know if it was bad for children so I simply said: ‘Look it up’. We both own an iPhone so within seconds...
read moreThe Flying Boat
Imagine an entrepreneur, lets call him Jack, talking to his partners: “Let’s cross the ocean together! We could do that! We could discover undiscovered countries and become rich! All we have to do is build a boat. We are qualified, experienced and motivated. Jim, you have experience with the open sea and know how to navigate. Bob, you know about construction and materials, and I would be an excellent skipper because I know how to motivate people and set a course. Let’s just do it!” And so they do. After months of hard...
read moreViva 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. The other reasons for wanting an iPhone...
read moreV3.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 purposes and technically they were very different...
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