In 1997, the old days, even before the internet bubble burst (yes I was on the scene already) I once, being a serious telecommunication consultant, had to write my input for a greenpaper on telecommunication and media for the OPTA. To give a north star I just wrote down some simple statements. One of them [...]

I actually noticed three trends at the Next Web. The first is the focus on smaller particles. There was a lot of business development focussing on getting a ‘feature’ in the cloud.Wauw! Wee makes it easy to upload pictures and text to your site and networks by using your mobile phone.Bemba is actually a sharing [...]

In the midst of the videoplayer storm (almost every day there is a new service launched) I have been working on.. indeed making another videoplayer. There is however a very decisive difference in this player with other services. Most of them are aimed at us, users becoming videochannels. That’s great, a well of new unknown [...]

Nova Spivack - Semantic Web Talk from Nicolas Cynober on Vimeo.

I found this merger between the two functionalities of Google Earth and You Tube very exciting. Why? Because this makes it possible to tag video to place and space. And I can already imagine very exciting ARG (Alternate Reality Gaming) propositions coming from this. For Google it means, selling really localised advertising content with mobile [...]

While the debate about facebook and the high google ratings it gives is in full swing I remember a part of our discussion back at Hemavan, sweden earlier this year. We talked about public, privat and secret media. The distinction between these is not clear to all users yet. As in they are not yet [...]

universecreation101
to some really good stories

A bit late reporting about the introduction of Tribler 4.0 last week in Cristofori Amsterdam. A year after first introducing tribler, a peer 2 peer open source platform service for television that is being developed at the technical university in Delft a lot has happened. Leiden neighbour Joost was introduced and they have secured a [...]

Today we will be working on how to pitch your idea (Sibylle Kurz and Frank Boyd)Then Lee Sheldon is going to talk about the emotional divide in movies and games.
TommorrowHunting for funds.. (Inga von Staden).Understanding your user - personas as digital tools.(Frank Boyd)Where the mass meets (Inga von Staden)New virtual state of world of warcraft [...]