This is a comparison of the blogs of three ‘web celebrities’ from the Netherlands over time. There are many Dutch ‘web celebrities’, but I want to focus on the famous internet journalists from our country. 

I looked at two basic things when selecting these three characters. First; they must have had exposure on mass media platform such as radio or tv, second I think it’s important to specifically look… Continue reading... | 3 Comments

During the next few weeks I will publish a series of posts about the South Korean internet market. I want to raise discussion about the trends, review web 2.0 websites and blogs and interview influential web 2.0 entrepreneurs from South-Korea.

The series will be brought down in three broad subjects:

1. The south Korean internet market (environment and trends)
2. Success stories from South Korea
3. What Western web trends are liable for… Continue reading... | 1 Comment

Flying to South Korea is expensive during the Olympics in Beijing. My friend from Beijing told me that the prices are dramatically increased for every Asian country for that matter. In search of a solution, I asked businessmen/women from different nationalities where they fly with, after receiving some tips from Marc van der Chijs I found that Finnair introduces a direct line to Seoul that would be cheapest… Continue reading... | 4 Comments

I have always been a fan of the quick and easy movie suite for mac called Imovie

I had finally had the chance to play with the latest version ~Imovie ‘08 during the weekend.

At first, Imovie 08 was a bit of a disappointment to me. I expected a program with a timeline (who’s idea was it to leave that out), and extra additions such as themes to spice up… Continue reading... | 1 Comment

Is your company looking for more international exposure? My friends from Stockholm record a video-podcast called ‘Urban Lifestyle Report’, and they will be visiting Amsterdam On the 29th and 30th of May! They are looking for entrepreneurs from the Amsterdam region to interview. 

The focus lies on the so called “new media” and how they are changing the whole marketing arena.

If you are interested, please follow this link and leave a comment. … Continue reading...

I met Elias G. Carayannis at opencoffee today, a well known and respected professor of management science at the George Washington University. He initiated an interesting discussion about startups, networks and location. It got me thinking about how Sweden is influencing me, and to which extend that determines success in general. Continue reading... | 1 Comment

We visited a Swedish bed manufacturer called Hästens today, known for their blue-white pattered beds. First off, I couldn’t help noticing that the parking lot has some typical performance indicators. There is a helicopter parked right in front of the company to pick and return customers to the airport, the CEO parks his red sports-car right in front of the factory, while offering all sales employees a… Continue reading... | 5 Comments

Are you a work-slave, do you believe the weekend is the best part of the week? We interpret our time off work incorrectly, “Why do we think the opposite of work is leisure, when in fact it is idleness?” (Semler, R, 2003) The fact is that we fill our leisure time with tasks; the truth is that our traditional weekend is gone Continue reading... | 5 Comments

Startup Sweden, intervju med Joop Dorresteijn from Urban_Lifestyle on Vimeo. Continue reading...

Startup weekend is over! We founded a new service on the web, more info will follow soon.          … Continue reading...

Martin Frönmark organized a startup event in Kalmar in early 2008, it was the first startupweekend in Sweden. The event draw a lot of attention from the Media, podcasts, blogs and newspapers. This article is in Swedish only.

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Original link: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.154871

Ett gäng entreprenörer samlades under samma tak med uppdraget att utforma en startup. Resultatet blev Stuffly, en sajt där användarna kan hyra ut utrustning… Continue reading...

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I received a lot of requests and some offerings to improve my Deviant Facebook application over the last year. Your waitings are over, Ibrahim Aydin has released a nifty new initiative for your artsy needs on Facebook called Mydeviantart. He approached me in early 2008, and he created an entire new intitiative. The applications come with all the configuration options you need… Continue reading... | 1 Comment

I am currently playing with a cool new webservice called Mobypicture. MobyPicture is an easy way to get photos from your mobile phone to where you want them on the internet. You just email your photos to MobyPicture and the photos are posted to the sites you use, from Tumblr, Twitter, Flickr to Wordpress.

The concept is simple, and I like it. After all, we all get tired of… Continue reading... | 3 Comments