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A few years ago I had the pleasure of spending some time with Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter. In 2007 his biggest concern appeared to be hardware: “How can we keep on growing like this when everytime we plug in another machine the website is down?” Few years later it’s amazing to see how fast the website has grown and how
Read More When Twitter turned mainstream (actually on 9 December 2009)
Last night I slept well for the first time in weeks! What a relief that TEDxAmsterdam could live up to the (mega) high expectations. It was an amazing journey and a fantastic climax with warm words, splendid people and perfect ambiance. Right now we’re releasing one talk each day (first one from Frans Timmermans, about ‘fear’) and I will give you my personal take-aways
Love this part of a Conan O’Brien interview with comedian Louis C.K. One quote to make you curious: We’re living in an amazing world (with the world’s best technology) and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of all time.
This week I’ll be hanging out in “The Westerpark”. Not because I’m choosing a new career as a street musician or as a re-born fisherman. But because I’m attending one of the best conferences in the World: PicNic ’09. This 4-day conference started out under the name of “Cross Media Week”, but covers a lot more subjects than just media and creativity. I’ve been
Deze hele week staat in het teken van de 400-jarige relatie tussen Nederland en New York. In september 2009 gaat het in en rondom New York om één man: Henry Hudson. Met tal van activiteiten herdenken de Amerikanen (en Nederlanders) dat 400 jaar geleden deze Engelse zeevaarder als eerste Europeaan de baai van New York binnenvoer en hiervan verslag uitbracht. Omdat Hudson onder Nederlandse
Many people think of the Internet as a part of nearly everything. You can’t turn on the radio without hearing a commercial that ends with “please visit WWW (anything) dot com”. It looks like the Internet has added an extra layer to our lifes. Or, has it? Matthew More from The Telegraph wrote a fun article on 50 things that are killed by the
John Freeman has written a wonderful manifesto about slow communication. He talks about the blessings of the Internet age, but then changes the perspective and really makes you think differently. He starts with a quote that might has well been taken from my book (same subject / anecdote): “My friend has just had his PC wired for broadband,” writes the poet Don Paterson. “I
Bobby McFerrin takes the audience at the World Science Festival 2009 on a nice little muscial trip. “A demonstration of expectations” is what he calls it. Just giving them two tones of a pentatonic scale (that’s 5, indeed) and by jumping around he’s not only the conductor but also the solist. Leaving the neuroscientist on stage with just one very scientific question… what the
TEDxAmsterdam, an independently organized TED event, will take place November 20, 2009, at the Hermitage Royal Tropical Institute, featuring TED Talks videos, original speakers, and music. “It’s a great honor to host a TEDx event in The Netherlands”, says organizer Jim Stolze. “TED has been around since 1984, but only a handful of Dutch people actually attended a TED conference. Many more of them
For years I’ve been coming to TheNextWeb Conference, hosted by Boris, Patrick and Arjen. This year I was even invited to give a Pecha Kucha presentation. This is specific format where you’re only allowed 20 slides that will be shown for 20 seconds each.
This results in a short, snappy presentation of 6 minutes and forty seconds. I hope you’ll enjoy it:
