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How to Twitter to a local number with your mobile in China
Setup a zuosa account (Chinese twitter clone)
Verify your mobile number
Sync zuosa with Twitter. Done!
When I started to use Twitter in 2007, there was an option to tweet with text messages (SMS) It makes sense because a SMS is also short and it's more interesting to see tweets on...
Koreans work the most, the Dutch the least?
I'd recommend to try out Google Public data, it's great! It's the result of Google's partnerships with the World Bank and other statistics gatherers to present an array of data in visual form within Google Labs. You know I am a number freak right, this will entertain me for a while! I was...
Who needs a music collection anyway?
I obtained an average music collection in the past, working at vinyl, cd store's and later a music studio to fulfill my musical needs. But the days of music collections are counted, music needs to be ad-hoc; fitting to the exact moment. 2004 was a tipping point, as online music recommendation...
China has 30% more Internet users than the US, time for global web dialogue
Let's talk translation. Remember Babel fish? Good at the time, but they lost their place in the market due to the quality of human powered Google translation with an API. Today, we have another player in the market, Facebook connect. Once you've integrated Facebook connect into your site, you can...
Are we still before the corporate blogging revolution?
Just out of curiosity; how many corporate blogs do you read? Actually, the number of corporate blogs in my feed is rather limited. While blogging seemed an exciting alternative to the one-way advertising through print and radio - allowing a dialogue with customers perhaps a community of people...
Introducing Twitter: a time gainer or waster?
My girlfriend and college friends (Michiel, Mathijs and Joery) are giving Twitter a trial... on my recommendation! It made me wonder whether Twitter is useful or not. I realized that Twitter DOES deliver me value, but it also takes a LOT of time to grow and maintain! For the ones who do not know...
Why embracing mobile VoIP is vital for carriers
Breakthrough innovations happen when two technologies collide. VoIP software is emerging on the mobile phone and is becoming the next big thing in the mobile market.
Like to switch this costly inbound call to VoIP?
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology eliminates circuit switching and...
[openidea] Stream free Internet TV on your iPhone and iPod Touch
More and more people are starting to watch TV on their mobile phone. Not so strange, the reason is simple: The amount of bored office clerks waiting for their bus/metro of train is huge! However, millions of iPhone and Touch users are not so fortunate and have to watch iTunes provided content,...
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Blind mavericks; Why Apple will be the next Sony
Here's why Apple can't sustain their leading role. It's complicated, but stay with me for the next two paragraphs and it makes sense. Let's start off with an example of another key player to introduce the problem here, our friend from Redmond. Statement: Microsoft's Office Suite business-model is...
‘Build to last’ is bullcrap, consultants repeat and Startups suck.
Today we live in a world that is innovating exponentially. As a result, companies need to innovate more aggressively. In the old world, a company could "catch a next train" to catch up innovative developments. In the "new" world, that would be impossible. What's the difference? Gary Hamel explained...
Learn to read and pronounce Korean Hangul in 2 days
You don't need a black belt in Taekwondo to master the Korean language, actually... reading Hangul (Korean writing) is surprisingly easy!
That's the main point I am trying to make in this post. While the Korean characters seem complex at first, they are easy to read within one week. Skip the...
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...
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...
Working at Meganova, because sitting at home is a bitch
"Finally a holiday!" I yelled earlier, but soon I found out that sitting at home was not as good as I imagined in the first place, don't get me wrong, I have enough work but I realized that I felt tired all day long and couldn’t get any work out of my hands; do you know that feeling? I...
Conclusion of the South Korean web profile serie
Enter the hyper connected society, Korea has an astounding 90 percent connected to the Internet with 3G and a nation wide coverage of a South Korean version of Wimax. What websites are popular over there, and does Korea have a web 2.0 scene?
To find that out, follow my first...
Search engine Empas.com is ready for a comeback in Korea
Empas.com is a South Korean web portal dating back as far as 1998. They became big with their cocky slogan: “If Yahoo can’t find it, Empas can.” Empas ranks five out of five on our list of (most visited) Korean web companies, However, Empas has lost ground against competitors as Naver...
Daum: boring, but innovative in user generated content
Posted under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Korea, Review on Wednesday, 28 May 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
Daum communications is huge, they are the biggest operator of Korean websites and they also operate in China with 365ren.com, and in the U.S. with the acquired Lycos portal. The word 'Daum' is Korean for 'next', but at first sight, they might come over as another boring web portal aiming for...
Search engine Naver is best in localized results, example for others?
We see increasing amounts of search engines popping up on the internet, they are using advanced algorithms to come up with better results. Not in Korea, at least not at Naver. Employees analyze, index and produces content for their search engine by hand. Even though this labor intensity, they count...
Social community Cyworld a trendsetter in E-commerce?
Cyworld is a social networking site, not big, and attempts to go abroad have failed in both Europe and Japan. Currently, they don't even have an English interface. However, Cyworld got my attention because of their business model, and the generated revenue they receive from it.
While the...
Why so little Korean web companies get ‘Techcrunched’
Most Koreans are addicted to the web, I wondered; Seoul must be a breeding place for new web ventures? I approached Chang W. Kim, to get an idea of what is going on. Chang is CEO of the biggest blog portal (80%) in Korea. He explains his views on European projects, the Seoul web-scene and funding...
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