Amat victoria curam!

I cannot imagine that I ever lived without my iPhone... It feels great to be connected to the internet 24/7. The apps make it even better. These are my favs:

1. Things
2. Recorder
3. Picoli
4. Exposure
5. Remote
6. Google
7. Twitterific
8. VisuaRadio
9. Send Contact
10. Converter

Next to these apps lots of websites have their own iphone version (Amazon, Vox, NYtimes).

I really liked the Microsoft surface when I first tried it years ago. But now with the iPhone it seems like something of the museum of ancient computing. Today Microsoft Labs showed it again and I didn't like it. The surface is rough and the interface ackward. The possibilies very limited. I hope that Microsoft will develop this further but have my doubts...

While I was sitting in the lobby of hotel Rex I tried my new iPhone app: Exposure which connects flickr with your iPhone. A nice feature is: photo's of your location which uses the GPS part of the iPhone to find flickr pictures of the area where you are at that moment. Funny enough the first picture that pop-uped was the one of the chair in which I was sitting.... :-)

Sign at the enterance of our hotel... I wonder what cemicals they are talking about...

The conference of UXweek started today and we had some interesting and some less interesting key note speakers. In the afternoon we followed a Ninja Sticky workshop in which we learned that sticky notes (post its) can be effectively used to set up a brainstorm, design a click trough path, organize processes etc.

We went to Mountain View to have a meeting with Vlane a car website quite similar as zomoto.nl. The guys from vlane and we shared our vision on the automotive internet market and it was funny to discover that their company is called mozomoto inc. (which is  mo zomoto...) :-)
Their concept is based about car owner discussions. After being in beta for more then over a year they expect to go live any moment. It is nice to know that we have far more visitors and revenue then vlane does. We must be doign somethings right.

What else could we do on a sunny Sunday then biking the Bridge? We got new racing Treks from Bike & Roll and set a new record time to ride to Tibron and from there took the ferry back to Pier 41.

The Giants played against the Dodgers and we went to the game. It was one big (food) party with people paying attention to the game from time to time. The stadium was sold out and whole families where present. The Giants originally came from New York and the Dodges from Brooklyn (now LA) so they are each others sworn enemies. But that didn't matter to the crowd: everyone cheered for a good strike of either team.

Marijn and flew to San Francisco for the UXweek next week via London with BA. Mainly to avoid flying dreadful KLM (and to enjoy the excellent services of British Airways). BA improved their Business offer even further and you now have a secluded private area in which a flight of 12 hours is a joy.
 Terminal 5 however is a terrible industrial nightmare where you think you are in a sort of factory. Especially the security area is horrific. with a sort of conveyor belt.

I was on prime time national (NOS) news while having lunch with with my friend Maartje at the IJ kantine in Amsterdam. They had a feature about the changing environment of Amsterdam North with his industrial harbour seroundings quickly changing into hip and up coming culture. Hence some images of the terras of the IJ kantine with me and Maartje in it.

The iPhone is great and I cannot image ever been without it... Always being connected to the internet is a dream come true. But its screen seems very vulnerably so I am looking for a nice sleeve. I found these: Sena orange leather (€ 20), Louis Vuitton (€180) and Dior (€300). I like the Vuitton most - but when I tried it it turned out to be only for the iPhone GEN I... :-( So the quest continues.

I switched today from my BlackBerry Curve to the iPhone 3G. I am curious about the applications and the navigation. The first use experience was typical Apple:
1) everything works
2) everything works the way you expect it would work
3) everything works very nice...

I do not eat cheese so much anymore because of my diet (they contain mostly 48% fat) but I still like them...So here's my top 10:
1. Old Cumin Cheese from Leiden
2. Emmentaler
3. Gruyere
4. Roquefort
5. Reypenaer
6. Cottage cheese
7. Old clove cheese
8. Parmesan
9. Cheddar
10. Pecorino

This year Gayprise Amsterdam was a higly political (even hetrosexual) kind of affair. I saw all kinds of political boats (cities / ministeries / companies / parties) and a lot of (hetrosexual) women. Where's the old canal parade? They only thing that really saved the day where the guys from the Amsterdam police force ;-))

Bob Cooley was in a car accident in 1976 and as a result needed to learn to move all over again. He found I new technique: stretching the muscle while contracting it. It turned out a huge success for himself and later also for others. He began practicing his Meridian Flexibility System and now teaches other instructors. My trainer JoJo is obsessed with this guy so when Bob was in Holland to train instructors I had to meet him. Within 30 minutes I improved my reach with 12 inches :-)) It is really amazing. While in Amsterdam Bob stretched Turner Epke Zonderland to help him overcome an injury so he is fit for Gold in Bejing.

In its weekly Photoshop challenge Gizmodo ask people to improve famous works of art with modern technology. The results were impressive.

There is a new way to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate gender. My score was uh...
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 5%

Likelihood of you being MALE is 95%

:-)