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Hacking the iPhone (again)

Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

Today I got invitation rights for a small world. The super secretive and high end social network. It is funny that something stupid like this actually made me feel happy for 5 seconds.
This is what they wrote:

“You have been chosen to receive special invitation privileges on ASMALLWORLD. Only a limited number of ASW members have these privileges and we are entrusting you to thoughtfully grow and further improve the ASW community.

The selection process involves many variables including geographic location, prior invitations, your activity, the composition and balance of your network, and completeness of your profile. We use these criteria to ensure that ASW members represent the most relevant, interesting and well-informed community on the Internet. It also ensures that the network is balanced in terms of geography, interests, tastes and perspectives.”

And they close the invitation with:

This right is not permanent and is subject to change at any time.

I heard a story that if you blog about asmallworld, you’ll loose all your rights and they might even delete your account. So I thought I give it a try :)

Update: Thank you all for your comments. I only invite people whom I’ve met, that is my policy on social networks. Sorry.

Picnic, the new media and entertainment conference in Amsterdam bought The Next Web!

That is some exciting news! Here you can see the evidence :)

Thursday the ‘Financieele Dagblad’ (Dutch version of Financial Times) wrote an article about venture capital in the web2.0 sphere in the Netherlands. Wakoopa was featured and interviewed for this story. The also made a picture at our office. The question is: What am I doing? You tell me…

Tonight there is (of course) an iPhone item on RTL news (19.30 hours). As the iPhone finally reached our little country and everybody is raving about it, RTL decided to do a short item about it.
They interviewed Stef Kolman (founder of Bliin) and he is showing ‘the new iPhone’. What 99.99% of the people will not know is that this is actually an ‘old school’ iPhone a.k.a. iPhone1.0 and that this item has been recorded yesterday (when the new iPhones weren’t in store yet).

Stef doesn’t have an iPhone himself, so who do you think he called to borrow one… Yep, you guessed right, moi!

So my iPhone is making its debut on national television tonight!!! This is gonna be a highlight in the career of my phone :)

Last year Accenture started the Innovation Awards to map the innovation landscape of the Netherlands. Over 125 companies signed up for the first edition and Sellaband and Hyves walked away with the prizes.
This year it is organized again and already over 150 companies and projects have signed up. If you have launched an innovative company in the last 3 years (that still exists :) ) I advice you to sign up. It takes 5 minutes and puts you into the innovation map of the Netherlands.

Accenture will bring out a report which is distibuted among all big companies, so this is an easy way to get your company in the picture of your future buyers :)

Read more about the awards and big companies and innovation on The Next Web.