I’ve been walking around with two devices for a while now. Not all the time but often I would have my Nokia N95 8GB with me, together with an iPod Touch. But now I have an HTC Desire. I’d use the Nokia for phone calls, but also some mobile web browsing such as Google Reader [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Opinion'
iPad: A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back?
January 31st, 2010 · View 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 [...]
iPad: Following An Event On The Other Side Of The World
January 28th, 2010 · View 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 be [...]
Some Thoughts on Avatar and Innovation
January 19th, 2010 · View 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 [...]
Tags: avatar·innovation·movies
The New Retweet Feature, Close But Not Perfect
December 11th, 2009 · View 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 [...]
Selling Secondhand Media in the Digital World
November 25th, 2009 · View 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. First of all I don’t [...]
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Your very own democratic news site
June 11th, 2009 · View 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 [...]
Tags: 100twt·dave winer·tr.im·twitter
Nieuwe oude media. Een lesje in TV-maken?
April 15th, 2009 · View Comments · Opinion
[This post is currently only available in dutch, please use the button in the bar below to translate] 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 [...]
Tags: kevin pollak·video
A newer Friendfeed (and faster en better en prettier)
April 6th, 2009 · View 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 [...]
Tags: facebook·friendfeed·scobleizer·techcrunch·thomas hawk·twitter
Ik zou voor last.fm betalen als…
March 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Opinion
[This post is currently only available in dutch. Please use the button in the bar below to translate.] 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 [...]