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Koreans work the most, the Dutch the least?

Posted under Internet, Korea, Netherlands on Tuesday, 9 March 2010 by Joop Dorresteijn
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...
Koreans work the most, the Dutch the least?

Google ad in the metro

Posted under asides on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 by admin
Google decided on new 'no cencorship' approach on China a few weeks ago. While this created a lot o buzz around the brand abroad, Google has, or commenced advertising in the Shanghai city metro. In China, google represents 30% of the search engine market. The ad features their short g.cn domain, a...
Google ad in the metro

‘Build to last’ is bullcrap, consultants repeat and Startups suck.

Posted under Entrepreneurship, Internet on Wednesday, 17 September 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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...
‘Build to last’ is bullcrap, consultants repeat and Startups suck.

Twitter acquires Summize for about $15 million

Posted under Technology on Tuesday, 15 July 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
Twitter reports on their blog that they acquired Summize, a search engine that indexes twitter posts. As Twitter co-founder Biz Stone puts it: "The folks over at Summize discovered Twitter and significantly improved on this idea of filtering and search.." Techcrunch reports that Twitter...
Twitter acquires Summize for about $15 million