Author Archives: Jochem

Yahoo opens up

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Jochem

Yahoo’s new CTO, Ari Balogh, presented the new kind of Yahoo! at the Web2.0 expo in San Francisco. And I must say, I like it! In a nutshell, Yahoo is going to: 1) Open up their platform, enabling developers to … Continue reading →

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Ha Ha! Your medium is dying!

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Jochem

Print is dead…

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Why Yahoo should stay away from Google

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Jochem

Yahoo is exploring several options for the company’s future, mainly in order to maximize the stock value now that Microsoft wants to acquire them. A merge with AOL/Time Warner is mentioned as one of the alternatives. However, a couple of … Continue reading →

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4/TZ5 announced

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Jochem

I’ve been looking for a new camera for a while now. It’s probably a well-known dillema: will I buy one now or wait till a new version comes out? The problem with technology and gadgets is that there will always … Continue reading →

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Have your photo analysed by emotion recognition software

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Jochem

The research department of the company I work for is working on a new project in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam. Today we launched a new website, gladorsad.com, which enables you to have your photo analysed by advanced emotion … Continue reading →

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Here comes another bubble

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Jochem

Will there be another bubble in 2008? I don’t know but this song by Richter Scales really made me laugh: Warning: Robert Scoble had Diet Coke coming out of his nose after watching this.

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Coffee in Helsinki

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Jochem

I had a meeting at Sanoma in Helsinki yesterday. I’m flying back this evening so I had planned to go shopping for some nice finnish design today. Turns out that today is a public holiday in Finland so all shops … Continue reading →

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WAP is dead, but what’s the future of mobile?

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Jochem

WAP has never been a big success, I guess the possibilities were just a bit too limited. I’m sure however that within a couple of years, the mobile web will be (at least) as important as the web is today. … Continue reading →

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Interesting acquisition: Nokia buys Navteq

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Jochem

A very interesting acquisition today: Nokia acquired map-provider Navteq for $8.1 billion. This is especially interesting since Navteq is one of the major suppliers of digital maps, they provide mapping data to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Another supplier of mapping-data, … Continue reading →

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Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Jochem

I attended thenextweb conference last friday. Dick Hardt was one of the speakers, he did his ‘usual’ talk on Identity 2.0. Althought it was the second time I saw his presentation in real live, it’s still inspiring and fun to … Continue reading →

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