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Gurus #11: Twitter Special with Francisco van Jole

Yesterday I was interviewed by Francisco van Jole in my own show. We talked about Twitter. Enjoy: ...

GURUS #4 with… my mother!

Yes, you can now watch GURUS episode number 4 on BlueShots.TV. Want to know how I learned how to read, how 'older' people deal with technology and why my mother has a blog and uses Twitter and a a few other things you didn't know about me? Watch it...

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...

The ONLY Black iPhone In The World

A few weeks ago I dropped my iPhone on the kitchen floor and cracked the glass. I was extremely disappointed and shared my feelings on Twitter. But then Oscar Kneppers came up with a beautiful plan. I'm not going into all the details here because I want to leave that to Bright Magazine but it involved Mark Hoekstra and you can see the result here: The Black iPhone: http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/822/paint-it-black-the-iphone I am so proud that MY old iPhone is now THE coolest...

My Twitter Updates for 2007-10-01

Started my day with waking up too late. Even the girls were still sleeping at 8:15. # I have a dead iPhone (DOA) here that needs to be exchanged at an Apple store in the US. Who is going? # Hacking my new iPhone. My 3rd one actually. Dropped 1st one, 2nd one was DOA, this is 3rd one....

My Twitter Updates for 2007-09-30

@biz: thanks for stopping by and bringing Olivia. Glad that you liked my soup......

My Twitter Updates (2007-09-29)

As you can see I installed a plug-in that fetches my Twitter Updates and posts them here once a day. This also means I will be changing the way I Twitter. If every Update I do ends up here it means I should try to make updates that are interesting even if taken out of context. I'm not sure if that will work but I will give it a try. This is the first batch of Twitter Updates: @thijsjacobs: iPhone sucks. Busy with stuff... # I love the iPhone but I just miss my Blackberry too much....