Jan 15, 2009

Howard Lindzon Maybe just kick start this thing. Why not with a vid.This is an ad for a Dutch temp agency called Maandag (Monday). Their tagline is: “Tot maandag”, meaning as much as “See you Monday”.From what I gather, they focus on higher profiles, in marketing, ICT, engineering. Their ads reflect that, and are s (Read More)

Jan 14, 2009

louisgray.com As today's news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be taking medical leave from the company through the summer rockets around the Web, many are speculating this will be the last we may ever see of Cupertino's hero. Following the initial news around Macworld Expo that Jobs was going to forego the keynote and had a hormonal imbal (Read More)

Jan 09, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Last night at the offices of blogging software company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the system of displaying recent activities of your friends online. Think Facebook Newsfeed, the basic f (Read More)

Jan 07, 2009

ReadWriteWeb In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information. Who is Bill Clinton's wife? What's the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears' mother's na (Read More)

Dec 23, 2008

Scobleizer Eight years ago, during the last downturn, I would have supported things like Scrapplet with open arms. If you look at it the geeky way Scrapplet is incredible: it lets you drag and drop pieces of the web over to your canvas and create a new web page. The technology underneath — all developed by one guy, Steve Repetti (Read More)

Dec 22, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: Dotcomslashblog is going silent for a bit. Holidays and all. Looking at my calendar, things are kicking off tonight already with final food shopping, first get-together tomorrow. Unless the web itself is acquired by Google, or my country collapses, I won’t be…. (Read More)

Dec 20, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: Had the office christmas do yesterday. Finished work at noon, had extended champagne lunch, went on an outing, had dinner, then drinks. Since we’re a bunch of techy geeks, the outing was both techy and geeky indeed. It was in fact…. (Read More)

Dec 16, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: Call me a grinch. Yesterday Belgian tech and web consumer magazine Clickx held its annual Website of the Year Awards. All that tells me is the sorry state of the Belgian web - or the users who voted for the…. (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: Der Science Fiction Film is part of the Heyne Filmbibliothek, a Germans series of books on cinema published between 1979 and 2000. Like many before him, its author Christian Hellmann tries to define scifi. And that is never easy. Hellmann doesn’t try…. (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader: Once it would have been unimaginable to earn an income solely from blogging, but people like Jason Kottke decided to. The latest form of media, one which is becoming increasingly respected, is micro-blogging (especially Twitter) so why is it that we have not seen swarms of full-time Twitterers?Twitter is a social networking (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: You probably don’t need another music service. There’s Last.fm, Deezer, Hypem, Favtape, Grooveshark, Songza plus tons of others. Twones says it’s different. In a way it is. It went into private beta earlier this week and I’ve got invites.Twones would… (Read More)

Dec 08, 2008

Submitted by Lencioni from Google Reader: Khuffie writes "Adobe, along with the University of Washington, are developing Zoetrope, an application that will offer a dynamic new view of the web. It is hard to explain on paper, but you can see a brilliant video of the application in action. Essentially, Zoetrope will allow users to travel back in time through a websit (Read More)

Dec 08, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: Surfing the web today needs a lot of tools. Semantic tools, productivity apps, developer addons, syncing features, metadata plugins, identity managers, image browsers, feed aggregators, social network enhancers, tag cloud organizers. Like you probably, I have profiles with each and every…. (Read More)

Dec 05, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: This year, the World Creativity Form was held in Antwerp, Belgium. I didn’t go, but tons of people did. And one had their old iBook signed by speaker Steve Wozniak. It’s for sale. Scouting for good Mac deals, I drop by…. (Read More)

Nov 28, 2008

Submitted by Nilsgeylen from blog: Yesterday, Belgian Minister of Defense De Crem stated in parliament that blogging is dangerous – after a blogger posted about the minister’s supposed drunk appearance in a NYC cafe, and was then fired. Belgian bloggers are upset. More and better posts…. (Read More)

Nils Geylen

I'm a web creative for a small IT firm in Belgium, specializing in ecommunity, communication and education. I think of things, do screencasts and generally play around.