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iPad: A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back?

January 31st, 2010 · Comments · Opinion

After have followed the keynote this week, the real insight and information about the new Apple iPad comes in the couple of days afterwards. Almost any blogger and her uncle have made a post with their thoughts on the iPad so why shouldn’t I.

Technological Perspective
There are two ways of looking at this new product. From [...]

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iPad: Following An Event On The Other Side Of The World

January 28th, 2010 · Comments · Opinion

I’ve gone and tried to follow the Apple launching event yesterday. Robert Scoble posted earlier his reasons for not going while he had a ticket, mainly because he had way better access to the backchannel, video, photos and opinions from everyone who did go by staying home. Since I obviously had no possibility to [...]

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Some Thoughts on Avatar and Innovation

January 19th, 2010 · Comments · Opinion

I finally saw Avatar this week. I thought I’d be one of the last to see it, but after a couple of weeks the huge IMAX theatre was still filled all the way. First about the movie. I’d never seen a movie in IMAX and also not with this kind of 3D technology. I was [...]

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The New Retweet Feature, Close But Not Perfect

December 11th, 2009 · Comments · Opinion

After the initial years for Twitter in which they wanted to keep their service as pure or spartan as possible, they have included three big changes in the last couple of months. The first one is lists, which they implemented differently than I expected (I expected a similar way as Friendfeed or Facebook, but the [...]

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Selling Secondhand Media in the Digital World

November 25th, 2009 · Comments · Opinion

A couple of days ago a question was raised on Friendfeed. The issue was what would happen to the pre-owned market of media such as movies, games and music when they are all digital in the future. This is of course assuming that digital downloads will replace all physical media.
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Your very own democratic news site

June 11th, 2009 · Comments · Linkfilter, Opinion

It are difficult times for newspapers. First the internet has taken over the function of marketplace and joblist from them and people went online for their news and opinion pieces. And now advertisers loose interest because there are less readers and these companies have less advertising budget. It’s hard to say what the future will [...]

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Nieuwe oude media. Een lesje in TV-maken?

April 15th, 2009 · Comments · Opinion

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Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show is een talkshow waarin Kevin Pollak, een hollywoodster bekend van o.a. The Usual Suspects, allerlei bekende mensen interviewt over hun passies en projecten. Het betreft tot nu toe vooral collega acteurs en anderen uit [...]

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A newer Friendfeed (and faster en better en prettier)

April 6th, 2009 · Comments · Linkfilter, Opinion

Friendfeed is a one stop shop for all of your social network and news needs. It exists for about two years now and is steadily growing. When Facebook launched their redesign a couple of weeks ago they had copied a large part of the interface of Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed has got a redesign of its [...]

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Ik zou voor last.fm betalen als…

March 25th, 2009 · Comments · Opinion

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Last.fm niet meer gratis
Gisteren deed Last.fm een mededeling, namelijk dat gebruikers buiten de USA, Groot-Brittannië en Duitsland 3,00 euro per maand moeten gaan betalen als ze van de streaming muziek service gebruik willen blijven maken. Dit betekent dat [...]

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@stufidata vertelt je iedere maand wanneer de studiefinanciering onderweg is

February 25th, 2009 · Comments · Opinion

Iedere maand maakt de staat weer zijn geld over naar de nederlandse studenten. Je hebt zo van die maanden dat er aan het einde van je geld nog een stukje maand over is. Je zit dan op een houtje te bijten en de dagen af te tellen tot je “stufi” binnen is. De twitteraccount @stufidata [...]

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