Avalanche of friendship glasses at Christies
At the coming European Glass auction at Christies in May a real avalanche of Dutch mid 18th century friendship glasses can be found. Here a couple a really like:
Avalanche of friendship glasses at Christies
At the coming European Glass auction at Christies in May a real avalanche of Dutch mid 18th century friendship glasses can be found. Here a couple a really like:
The morning when we learn even more about Web2.0
We saw some interesting demo's from swivel (data presentation on the Internet), vidoop (a cool new login security concept), tell me ( a not so cool voice to data mobile startup just bought by Microsoft).
After that we listened to a great story of Bill Tancer of Hitwise and David Sifry of Technocrati about Internettraffic and blogs.
Hitwise divides the users in een couple of socio/demographic/lifestyle groups. Three of those are important to predict what the next big thing will be. (Youtube took for instance just SIX WEEKS to be the most dominant video website.
The groups are: Money & brains, Pools & patio, Young Digerati...
According to the most recent numbers the sites to watch out for are: Yelp (user generated yellow pages) Stumble upon (exhange of bookmarks), Weeworld (chat with avatars), Imeem (playlist exchange), Piczo (community website) and Veoh (video exchange).
Interesting stats about participation: only 0,16% of the users of youtube participate in uploading a video. For flickr: 0,2% and wikipedia: 4,6%. A participant is usually older and male.
Although the amount of active blogs in decreasing (21% vs. 36% last year), They are getting more and more important in the top 1000 linked to sites.Tagging really is exploding and now 37% of all bloggers are adding tags. That will create all new possibilities in the future.
By the way: I started to tag with this new VOX blog and am investigating the automatic tagging from tagyu.
The happening of the day was and interview on stage with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. He had a really good performance, was witty, smart and confident. According to him Google will find growth potential in mobile and local space. He also is convinced that we are just beginning to grasp and use the possibilities of the Internet abd that scalability is a key thing.
Overwhelmed...
I have to say we are really overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information and the quality of it here at Web 2.0 expo.
I have never written so many notes and new ideas and concept keep up coming like rapid fire. I guess that Marijn and I need at least a couple of years to develop them all. But WAIT: we do not have time for that! The development in Internet is at Top Gear we have to implement things quickly.
Of the many many things we saw and learned today just a couple of highlights.
We started of with Jeff Weiner of Yahoo who told us about yahoo pipes and the strategy of Yahoo in the near future. While Google and Amazon are focusing on massive storage, yahoo is more focused on communications and communities. You know what really surprised me? The total lack of any presence of Microsoft on this conference. Nobody spoke about MS, they weren't there themselves. I think they really need to act quickly before they are a goner. (BUY YAHOO!)
Our own Dirk Willem van Gulik demonstrated Joost and I must say it has more to it that you would think at first site. We got invited in the beta version and it is really impressive (certainly in user interface terms) I am curious which widgets and smart channels will come out. It will be a huge succes and my last name will be famous for ever ("are you the guy from Joost?" ) We had presentations about energy devices and open source hardware.
For Marijn and me the Mobile 2.0 part of the afternoon and the Venture Capital track were extremely insightful.
Last but not least we compared the user interface design of games with the UID of web2.0.
After a day packed with information we unwinded at Levende at Castro, one the most hip places in SF to celebrate a great Conference and time here in San Francisco.
By the way: I bought Parallels today so my macbook is now windows and linux as well.
Overwhelmed...
I have to say we are really overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information and the quality of it here at Web 2.0 expo.
I have never written so many notes and new ideas and concept keep up coming like rapid fire. I guess that Marijn and I need at least a couple of years to develop them all. But WAIT: we do not have time for that! The development in Internet is at Top Gear we have to implement things quickly.
Of the many many things we saw and learned today just a couple of highlights.
We started of with Jeff Weiner of Yahoo who told us about yahoo pipes and the strategy of Yahoo in the near future. While Google and Amazon are focusing on massive storage, yahoo is more focused on communications and communities. You know what really surprised me? The total lack of any presence of Microsoft on this conference. Nobody spoke about MS, they weren't there themselves. I think they really need to act quickly before they are a goner. (BUY YAHOO!)
Our own Dirk Willem van Gulik demonstrated Joost and I must say it has more to it that you would think at first site. We got invited in the beta version and it is really impressive (certainly in user interface terms) I am curious which widgets and smart channels will come out. It will be a huge succes and my last name will be famous for ever ("are you the guy from Joost?" ) We had presentations about energy devices and open source hardware.
For Marijn and me the Mobile 2.0 part of the afternoon and the Venture Capital track were extremely insightful.
Last but not least we compared the user interface design of games with the UID of web2.0.
After a day packed with information we unwinded at Levende at Castro, one the most hip places in SF to celebrate a great Conference and time here in San Francisco.
By the way: I bought Parallels today so my macbook is now windows and linux as well.
post 985 and I moved to VOX
It's a sad day today but also a happy day. After 985 posts on Blogger it is time for me to move my blog to VOX.The possibilities are beyond blogger and it was time for a new look as well.
So join me at vox: http://mareku.vox.com and bookmark the new link.
Thanks for visiting my blog so far. Keep reading... :-)
Marque
Web 2.0 logos
One fun aspect of Web2.0 is that the logos of the web2.0 companies are really special. Lot's of weird names, colors and symbols. Here is a bunch of them on flickr.
A conversation with Jef Bezos
Finally the conference has started. Before the first keynote speaker (Uncle Jef from Amazon) however we followed some additional workshops. The guys from Modzilla told us a little bit more about open source development. We then went into a presentation about user generated content. Interesting to see that the authority balance has shifted so powerful. It is important to learn and lead your users while offering them the option to play with the content.
By the way the guys from Modzilla showed us some new upcoming features that are wicked awesome. (The Coop). Have a look at dai.sy. or weblin It's al about sharing the browser experience with other users.
Into the browser expect more functionalities as well - so a host of features now embedded in almost every website (like print sent to a friend, email etc. etc. ) will be obsolete.
Jef Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) told us about Amazon Services - a giant platform on which the can deliver digital services in the future.
A new blog...
Inspired by the We2.0 conference I started a new blog today. Pretty much the same content but under de VOX platform. This gives me more flexibility and the opportunity to share not only photo's but audio, video books and other documents as well.
ALSO I can do some more editing on VOX. :-)
And trow in some tags - so I can archive my posts better. Together with a fresh new lay-out I guess It's Marque's Blog2.0...
Enjoy!
Web 2.0 logos
One fun aspect of Web2.0 is that the logos of the web2.0 companies are really special. Lot's of weird names, colors and symbols. Here is a bunch of them on flickr.
Web 2.0 logos
One fun aspect of Web2.0 is that the logos of the web2.0 companies are really special. Lot's of weird names, colors and symbols. Here is a bunch of them on flickr.
The morning when we learn even more about Web2.0
We saw some interesting demo's from swivel (data presentation on the Internet), vidoop (a cool new login security concept), tell me ( a not so cool voice to data mobile startup just bought by Microsoft).
After that we listened to a great story of Bill Tancer of Hitwise and David Sifry of Technocrati about Internettraffic and blogs.
Hitwise divides the users in een couple of socio/demographic/lifestyle groups. Three of those are important to predict what the next big thing will be. (Youtube took for instance just SIX WEEKS to be the most dominant video website.
The groups are: Money & brains, Pools & patio, Young Digerati...
According to the most recent numbers the sites to watch out for are: Yelp (user generated yellow pages) Stumble upon (exhange of bookmarks), Weeworld (chat with avatars), Imeem (playlist exchange), Piczo (community website) and Veoh (video exchange).
Interesting stats about participation: only 0,16% of the users of youtube participate in uploading a video. For flickr: 0,2% and wikipedia: 4,6%. A participant is usually older and male.
Although the amount of active blogs in decreasing (21% vs. 36% last year), They are getting more and more important in the top 1000 linked to sites.Tagging really is exploding and now 37% of all bloggers are adding tags. That will create all new possibilities in the future.
By the way: I started to tag with this new VOX blog and am investigating the automatic tagging from tagyu.
The happening of the day was and interview on stage with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. He had a really good performance, was witty, smart and confident. According to him Google will find growth potential in mobile and local space. He also is convinced that we are just beginning to grasp and use the possibilities of the Internet abd that scalability is a key thing.
The morning when we learn even more about Web2.0
We saw some interesting demo's from swivel (data presentation on the Internet), vidoop (a cool new login security concept), tell me ( a not so cool voice to data mobile startup just bought by Microsoft).
After that we listened to a great story of Bill Tancer of Hitwise and David Sifry of Technocrati about Internettraffic and blogs.
Hitwise divides the users in een couple of socio/demographic/lifestyle groups. Three of those are important to predict what the next big thing will be. (Youtube took for instance just SIX WEEKS to be the most dominant video website.
The groups are: Money & brains, Pools & patio, Young Digerati...
According to the most recent numbers the sites to watch out for are: Yelp (user generated yellow pages) Stumble upon (exhange of bookmarks), Weeworld (chat with avatars), Imeem (playlist exchange), Piczo (community website) and Veoh (video exchange).
Interesting stats about participation: only 0,16% of the users of youtube participate in uploading a video. For flickr: 0,2% and wikipedia: 4,6%. A participant is usually older and male.
Although the amount of active blogs in decreasing (21% vs. 36% last year), They are getting more and more important in the top 1000 linked to sites.Tagging really is exploding and now 37% of all bloggers are adding tags. That will create all new possibilities in the future.
By the way: I started to tag with this new VOX blog and am investigating the automatic tagging from tagyu.
The happening of the day was and interview on stage with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. He had a really good performance, was witty, smart and confident. According to him Google will find growth potential in mobile and local space. He also is convinced that we are just beginning to grasp and use the possibilities of the Internet abd that scalability is a key thing.
A conversation with Jef Bezos
Finally the conference has started. Before the first keynote speaker (Uncle Jef from Amazon) however we followed some additional workshops. The guys from Modzilla told us a little bit more about open source development. We then went into a presentation about user generated content. Interesting to see that the authority balance has shifted so powerful. It is important to learn and lead your users while offering them the option to play with the content.
By the way the guys from Modzilla showed us some new upcoming features that are wicked awesome. (The Coop). Have a look at dai.sy. or weblin It's al about sharing the browser experience with other users.
Into the browser expect more functionalities as well - so a host of features now embedded in almost every website (like print sent to a friend, email etc. etc. ) will be obsolete.
Jef Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) told us about Amazon Services - a giant platform on which the can deliver digital services in the future.
The founders of Jot, sixapart (the makers of VOX) and digg told us how to manage successfully an Internet company and what the difference is between starting a company for sale and a company for he long term,
A conversation with Jef Bezos
Finally the conference has started. Before the first keynote speaker (Uncle Jef from Amazon) however we followed some additional workshops. The guys from Modzilla told us a little bit more about open source development. We then went into a presentation about user generated content. Interesting to see that the authority balance has shifted so powerful. It is important to learn and lead your users while offering them the option to play with the content.
By the way the guys from Modzilla showed us some new upcoming features that are wicked awesome. (The Coop). Have a look at dai.sy. or weblin It's al about sharing the browser experience with other users.
Into the browser expect more functionalities as well - so a host of features now embedded in almost every website (like print sent to a friend, email etc. etc. ) will be obsolete.
Jef Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) told us about Amazon Services - a giant platform on which the can deliver digital services in the future.
The founders of Jot, sixapart (the makers of VOX) and digg told us how to manage successfully an Internet company and what the difference is between starting a company for sale and a company for he long term,
A new blog...
Inspired by the We2.0 conference I started a new blog today. Pretty much the same content but under de VOX platform. This gives me more flexibility and the opportunity to share not only photo's but audio, video books and other documents as well.
ALSO I can do some more editing on VOX. :-)
And trow in some tags - so I can archive my posts better. Together with a fresh new lay-out I guess It's Marque's Blog2.0...
Enjoy!
A new blog...
Inspired by the We2.0 conference I started a new blog today. Pretty much the same content but under de VOX platform. This gives me more flexibility and the opportunity to share not only photo's but audio, video books and other documents as well.
ALSO I can do some more editing on VOX. :-)
And trow in some tags - so I can archive my posts better. Together with a fresh new lay-out I guess It's Marque's Blog2.0...
Enjoy!
Rapid Development
This morning the conference started. We had several options for workshops and started with a revealing session with Kelly Goto about the development process. We learned about hybride designers, rapid agile prototyping, rapid user interface research. Although we guessed that we were some sort of experts in this field it turned out the the developments in this area go with the speed of light. We noticed that we were doing sometimes things the old fashioned way at Funda. Now that we start from scratch again we can implement the web 2.0 way :-)In the afternoon we were immersed in the Venture Capital process and we learned about pre - and postmoney, employees stock option pools and wise lessons about financing the business.
In the evening Richard and Alfredo invited us to a exquisite dinner at Michael Mina. The bottle of wine (Screaming Eagle 2004) had a price tag of $1850. Luckily for them I don't drink that kind of stuff anymore.
It was a very nice evening with lots of laughter and funny remarks.
M-Audio O2
The M-Audio O2 is a great travel companion. It has real size keys but is super slim. It even has assignable controls so you are in charge of the Reason rack devices. I am testing Apple's own Garageband right now and it is fun. :-)The best thing about the O2 is of course that it is super tiny: it fits in every suitcase so I can take it with where ever I go.
Don't Jump!
Along the bridge railing you will find last minute telephones to talk people out of jumping of the bridge. I could just resist the temptation and so didn't need the call.
Biking in San Francisco
Our friends of Blazing Saddles prepared bikes for us so we could bike around the bay, well that is bike across the Golden Gate to Sausalito, further to Tiburon and take the ferry back to Pier 14. It was a great trip, sunny weather a cool breeze great food with a view on downtown across the water.
In the mean time at the Kemmelberg
Jimmy Casper was one of the many guys who fell yesterday at the Gent-Wevelgem cycling race. the track was slippery.
Funda gets married!
Today we saw the return of my dear friend Funda Muijde in The Telegraaf . After her severe accident in Istanbul she now tells the whole story. She reveals that just before her first operation her boyfriend asked her by cell phone from Amsterdam to marry her :-)
The Kite Runner
I was very much impressed by the (old) novel of Khaled Hosseini about the life a a boy in Kabul Afghanistan. It is a deep moving story beautifully written. It gives you more insight into the live of the Afghanis during the last decades. A perfect air plane book.
Semantic Web
Today Marijn and I flew to San Francisco to attend the O'Reilly Web 2.0 expo and conference. Because of the advantage of a direct flight we preferred to fly KLM this time. I am happy to say that the business class has much improved and our standard reaction to avoid KLM as much as possible and to fly BA or Lufthansa isn't valid any longer. Good food, OK chairs nice staff and very comfortable and quiet climate.We had some "dropjes" , got our KLM jenever house and had a incredible view of Iceland and San Francisco.
It took us 10 plus hours, but we landed fit in Frisco. The immigration procedure took hours and we were worried that the French lady in front of us had to trow up any moment. But she did not and after Customs things went very smoothly.
We are staying in the Rex Hotel just of Union Square and our first impression is perfect. Big room, nice small boutique hotel and a good location. (and free wireless Internet which for me is like oxygen) The weather is fine, the shops are open and our credit cards ready for what may come...
Summer has arrived
It was fun today to open up the window doors and invite the warm summer breeze into the house. The Prinsengracht is full of people and as usual tourists in he canal boats like to waive and to be waived back at.
Niek and Noor in Le Garage
We had dinner with Niek and Noor in Le Garage. We had a great time: the food was very good, the atmosphere nice (I saw some people I knew a long time ago when I came in Le garage almost twice a day) and the company perfect. Something to remember.
Noah's Arc
Finally got time to see season one of Noah's Arc. A gay black sex in the city. The script is fun, the acting is so so but the guys are hot :-) Here's Wade for instance...
Ovomat: just in time...
We need to eat more eggs. So to help us doing that I bought the Ovomat egg cooker from Krups. It is absolutely brilliant. The eggs are exactly as you what them to be in no time.
The Wilde process
I just started reading in the new novel of Floortje Zwigtman: Tegenspel. It's a follow up of Schijnbewegeningen (Tricks of the Trade). The story is about Adrian Mayfield a young gay guy in Victorian England and a member of the Oscar Wilde gang.
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