Written on October 27, 2008 – 8:57 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Always wondered where the great FAIL Internet meme came from? Rocketboom explains the phenomena in one of their videos. Enjoy!
Written on September 15, 2008 – 5:37 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Here is another Mischievous Monday Mornings post with a few simple and clean entertaining videos for your amusement. The first one is titled “Pussy VS Printer” but I like “FASTER PUSSYCAT PUSSY CAT KILL KILL KILL” better:
The second video touches a valid point. Are ALL domainsnames taken? I don’t think so…
Written on September 8, 2008 – 11:08 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
There you go. Live video from Techcrunch50. Now you will be able to pretend you where there. You can even watch previous presentations. Thanks Techcrunch for generously sharing this with the rest of us!
Written on September 4, 2008 – 10:05 am
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer
Been a while since I’ve laughed this hard. Check out the video below, found on Valleywag.
My favourite quote: “Oh no, Herr Doctor? Tell me, do the words ‘two girls and 1 cup’ mean anything to you?”
Written on August 28, 2008 – 4:56 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer
Viewdle, the face-detection oriented video search technology company, has touched base with us to announce the alpha release of VideoFriends, a Facebook app which helps you organize your videos with extensive tagging and sharing utilities.
So far, the only platform that’s supported is YouTube, although the company promises that they “will add support for many more mobile broadcast and upload applications soon”.
Since Viewdle is all about facial recognition, I assume that the app is just a tool for them to enlarge their index and improve their automated detection skills.
Viewdle recently raised an undisclosed round of funding from KIT Capital, a Dubai-based digital media investment group. One of the media partners currently testing their technology platform is Reuters.
(Full disclosure: Viewdle was last year’s winner of the Startup Rally at Plugg, a web conference I organize.)
Written on January 28, 2008 – 1:53 pm
Guest blogger, sharing views on The Next Web
This an article by Edial Dekker, a Dutch blogger and student, who witnessed the on-line attack on Scientology.
For many years there have been a lot of popular on-line partitions where people participated in to make a change to the world. Not only on-line injustice, but also world problems have always been part of the on-line communities. Recently did we not only give the Greenpeace-whale the name Mister Splashy Pants , but we have also saved a man’s holiday. This is very nice and all, but can social networks and masses of on-line Internet users really make a difference? Last Thursday we got some answers…
If you haven’t seen Tom Cruise movie in which he talks about Scientology, be sure to check it out because when it was taken down on YouTube by the Scientology [This video has been removed due to a copyright claim by the Church of Scientology] hell broke lose on many social networks. Last Thursday - a group called ‘Anon‘ (stands for Anonymous) - used Digg.com to plan an attack later that night against websites related to the Church of Scientology. Everything related to Anon, or the Scientology went to frontpage in just minutes… (more…)
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