Archive for 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 using silver and his apply his technique create objects that almost seem real.
The...
Meanwhile, at the blind-Korean-GPS-marketed-witch-doctor’s house
Posted under Korea on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 man has gained popularity, and people from all...
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 some hard work, we broke through the limit in the third week. Time for some...
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 Netherlands. He chopped the interview in three clips.
More leaks...
A lesson about Twitter Spam
Posted under Internet on Wednesday, 13 August 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 navigating to Twitter more and more, which made me decide to commit Twitter suicide....
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 blogs including Techcrunch, Inquisitr and Problogger a chain reaction that generated...
City trip? 3 cool web meetups in Amsterdam
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 the airport, but I couldn't help letting my thoughts run away with me for a moment, as I think back of my time...
Ipoki.com, GPS-based social networking
Posted under asides on Tuesday, 5 August 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 of your GPS by connecting you with others to...
Crowdfusion: publishing platform raises $3 million from Andreesen and others
Posted under Technology on Friday, 1 August 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 investors and raised an initial...
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