http://www.jochemprins.com about search, Web2.0 and things I like Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:32:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The social part of the web is a hot topic these days. We see a development in which a lot of webapplications are incorporating some way of social interaction with friends, collegues or family. New applications arrived which enable us to inform our friends about what we're doing, where ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2008/05/26/how-can-we-open-up-the-social-web/ 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 build their own applications for various Yahoo! products like mail, my ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2008/04/25/yahoo-opens-up/ Print is dead... http://www.jochemprins.com/2008/04/12/ha-ha-your-medium-is-dying/ 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 days ago Yahoo announced that they will start a test ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2008/04/12/why-yahoo-should-stay-away-from-google/ 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 be a new version with improved features within a year ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2008/02/11/panasonic-lumix-dmc-tz4tz5-announced/ 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 recogniton software. The technology behind this project is ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2007/12/13/have-your-photo-analysed-by-emotion-recognition-software/ 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. http://www.jochemprins.com/2007/12/11/here-comes-another-bubble/ 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 are closed. Luckily we did find a nice coffeeshop with ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2007/11/03/coffee-in-helsinki/ 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. We already see a growth in the availability of mobile ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2007/10/16/wap-is-dead-but-whats-the-future-of-mobile/ 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, Tele Atlas, was acquired by TomTom earlier this year. Personally I ... http://www.jochemprins.com/2007/10/02/interesting-acquisition-nokia-buys-navteq/