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A half year ago I had the honor to meet Walt Mossberg. I knew he was a very influential journalist, but now I know he’s more than that! He’s probably the most influential technology journalist in the world. He is the first one to give a full review of the iPhone.
Check it out:
During The Next Web Conference a journalist came up to me asking me some great and funny questions. It resulted in a one page story in the Amsterdam Weekly with a great header and a (mine) quote:
An attempt to unravel Web2.0 at The Next Web Conference… One scoop: “It’s one of the few web-based initiatives that hasn’t been born out of the porn industry”
I like it : )
Since a couple of days I’m using twittermail as my main input option service for twitter.
One of my problems with twitter was that when I wanted to post something I was on the road most of the times. When you’re doing something worth mentioning it often involves a location. So my twitter account was pretty much dead.
Now I use my blackberry to send a tweet via email and it directly puts it on my twitter account.
Also there are some cool features with using twittermail:
- Replies to your posts are emailed back to you (so no reloading the page all the time)
- You can receive the last 20 posts of your friends in your mailbox, by sending ‘friends’ in the subject.
- no character restraint (the first 140 will be post on twitter, the rest behind a ‘more’ link.
- Need an alibi? Schedule your post! I love this feature, you can schedule posts so it looks like you’re working at 3 o’clock in the morning :) it might come in handy.
TwitterMail was built by Lennaert Ekelmans (Development) and Bram Kok
(Design) and is based on an OpenIdea by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten.
Robert Gaal and Wouter Broekhof (founders of Wakoopa) are nominated for the Top 25 European Entrepreneurs under 25 by Businessweek. Although this nomination is already a couple of weeks old (I forgot to blog about it in the first place) I think it is nice to mention it, because it is damn cool!
It would be great for the Dutch web scene if these guys win.
You can still cast your vote.
This morning the Wired did a post on Michael Arringtons blogging empire. It is a very interesting 4 page article. The article starts with this alinea:
One Tuesday morning in early May, Michael Arrington was sound asleep in his bedroom in Atherton, California, when three men burst in. Naturally, he was startled. His first reaction, he recalls, was to tell them to “get the fuck out.” But he quickly realized they meant no harm. Clad in white business suits and speaking English with a Dutch accent, the apologetic men looked more like dandies on their way to a garden party than criminals. They were, it turns out, overeager entrepreneurs from Amsterdam making the rounds of Silicon Valley big shots. All they wanted — desperately — was to tell Arrington about their startup.
The wired just wrote about Boris, Arjen and me (the Fleckers) waking up Michael Arrington in white suits!!!!
The real story is somewhat different though…. On Monday night we had a dinner appointment with Scott Rafer, Matt Mullenweg and Michael Arrington in San Francisco city. It turned out that Michael had a double appointment in his agenda (something went wrong) and couldn’t make it to the dinner. We ended up having a great night with Scott and Matt.
The next morning we had an OpenCoffee meetup in Palo Alto where we met Keith Teare (CEO of Edgeio), as he is a close friend of Michael and shares the same assistant (dear Amy), he knew about Michaels no show the night before and said: “Michael lives around the corner, why don’t you guys wake him up with a café latte, that would be awesome! If he kills you, blame it all on me.”
We went to his house and were trespassing in his yard, bouncing on all windows and doors accompanied by the words “Michael, wake up, we got you some breakfast”. Except for a barking dog, there was no response at all!
We called Keith, Amy and everyone we could thing of that could know where he was and they all came up with the same conclusion, he was still asleep. Then a young guy (Nick of omnidrive) opened up the door asking us in a polite way who the … we were. He let us in the “Mansion” and we went straight to Michaels door to wake him up (despite Nicks advice that if we still wanted to live we better not wake him up).
After 5 minutes Michael opened the door, it was good to see him and have a talk with him, and after some practical jokes, we left the house on to our next appointment.
The men in white went on. A week after our trip we were featured in the San Hose Chronicle and now almost two months later… Wired!
Later on this day we will put up some videos of the wake up call.
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