For a week now, give or take, I’ve been getting daily email updates from XYDO.com. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a site that many people tweeted and blogged was the successor of Digg.com. It may be, but I actually think Twitter and Facebook are and we are leaving the era of one [...]
I don’t know what to write about yet, perhaps the co-relation between blogging and ideas. I attempted a similar post last week, and restricted it mostly to differing learning styles. In short, some people (me) learn as they write, some as they hear, some as they see, some as they speak. As a human being, [...]
Positioning is a marketing concept that is expressed through verbal, numerical, and visual cues. As such, it is easily identifiable, if you know what to look for. But the fun is less so, if you try to do it yourself. Let me give an example of what positioning is. Last night, I’m waiting for a [...]
There’s a really, really interesting blog post that talks about robots a little bit. It’s by Paul Miller on IEEE Spectrum and draws a parallel between how the personal computing industry got started and the state of robot development today. Specifically, it talks about hardware hackers. If you want to dig even deeper, there’s another [...]
Becoming a more prolific writer on Tech IT Easy, means that I’m moving back to “napkin-work,” i.e. coming up with ideas for this blog post on a whim and seeing where they take me. Yesterday, I sat on a jury evaluating ideas that came out of a number of student teams developing game in a [...]
So Penelope Trunk wrote a book. I previously wrote about her here. A commentator on one of blog-posts asks: Penelope, I read your blog regularly. Is there anything in your new book that I wouldn’t have already gotten from your blog? Either way, I’ll probably buy it… but I was just curious. Posted by Kelly [...]
…Or how not to approach development. It’s busy in Vincentland, but I’m still determined to regularly update Tech IT Easy. Today, my question is: What determines the choice for a platform? Is it market, personal taste and talent, or the desire to create something that fits a certain paradigm? In the end, no matter how [...]
I sent off my V-moda headphone for repair. The address was somewhere in Los Angeles, California, and I live in the Netherlands. They checked it and sent me a replacement with no questions asked. The only problem? I sent them off on the 23rd of February and got them back yesterday, 15 days later. Even [...]
I dig this album, else I wouldn’t review it, both in the context of riding the crap out my bike to make the train this morning, and while starting to write this post on SimpleNote at the station (In English: it works in a sports & and a creative context). There’s a lot of loops [...]
I finished my last post on the stance that, realistically, all enterprises today are partially networked and they should be. The question for a company is always to what extent they should ‘externalise’ the processes of their company and to what extent they should ‘internalise’ them. There certainly is a mix of fear, greed, and [...]
Cecil Dijoux has been writing a lot on what he calls the networked enterprise on this and his site. He’s a big believer in it and I respect that even though I disagree on a great many points with him. This post is the beginning of a response to him—I would have to summarise many [...]
Horror-tagline for the Mac App-store: It reveals what was previously hidden… but you may not like what you find. I’ve been looking at two-and-a-half sources for informing my opinion about the Mac App Store (MApp Store for short): TUAW’s price point analysis of the Mac apps in the store today, some developers p.o.v. that previously [...]
“From my cold, dead hands…” It’s something that came to mind as I was thinking about writing this post. The part that doesn’t make sense about the Internet, today and perhaps since ever, is that American concept of “Freedom,” of independence and lack of governance. In my post on piracy, my point was not complete. [...]
I have a general philosophy on the evolution of the B2C and B2B relationship, one that is inspired by history. Let’s look at some examples. Money first took the form of barter, then gold, then coins, then paper, and now bits and bytes. Transport: on foot (great shoe-sales), animals (great stable-sales), cars (great garage sales), [...]
We’ve talked to a number of investor these last months and I can classify their questions into three categories: Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) Revenues and Operations Revenues is a straightforward concept and reflects market potential, market share, and business-model. Operations can also mean business-model as that clearly affects your operations, it also concerns the team, [...]
