Monthly Archives: August 2008

What can you leave to your descendant?

I visited a Korean art expo on Saturday the 23rd, and met a fascinating artist named Hae do Park. He dedicated his life to learn a new skill, and aims to inspire younger artists with his work. The combination of … Continue reading

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Meanwhile, at the blind-Korean-GPS-marketed-witch-doctor’s house

I visited a very special practitioner on Friday the 22nd. A blind chiropractor called Mr Ahn, with a special approach. – for his diagnose, he touches certain body points, after which he gives lifestyle advice or prescribes natural medicines. The … Continue reading

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Meganova: Prepare for Urban lunches, Mc Donalds and a lot of beer

This summer, I woke up exited every day to go blogging for TheNextWeb at the Meganova office. The first week, we said to ourselves, wouldn’t it be great if we finally reach the magical 4000 readers on the blog? After … Continue reading

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Video reaction about the ‘Feedburner hack’, can you find more leaks?

An interview with Justin Robert Young from Talkinghead tv about the Feedburner hack. Justin is a Florida based podcaster, and he creates these short (5 minute) interviews. He approached me on Skype last week when I was still in the … Continue reading

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A lesson about Twitter Spam

Twitter is service that alllows you to send short messages to your followers. Its an easy way to know what your friends are up to and update them about your current life events. But at some point, I catched myself … Continue reading

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Feedburner video watched almost 15.000 times this week

Long story short; Patrick de Laive and I created a video about a vulnerability in Google’s Feedburner, and put an article on Thenextweb last week, it created a lot of debate and we were quoted on a huge lists of … Continue reading

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In a few moments, I am flying to Asia again. While the whole world is looking at the Olympics in China, my plane is headed to South Korea. I found a book to occupy my mind for the time at … Continue reading

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Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. This time we’re interviewing Diego Fernández Domínguez, the co-founder of ipoki.com. Ipoki lets you get the most … Continue reading

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Feedburner hack: how to get 2500 subscribers overnight (video)

Established blogs like ReadWriteWeb and Techcrunch proudly show a Feedburner chicklet that displays the sites popularity. But beware – since people are more likely to subscribe to a site with a bigger amount of readers, some sites manipulate the counter. … Continue reading

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Crowdfusion: publishing platform raises $3 million from Andreesen and others

Crowd Fusion is a revolution in online publishing, offering web publishers an unique combination of technology and strategy. Or at least, that’s what I understood from their temporary website, the company is still in stealth mode. But attracted some interesting … Continue reading

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