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My opinion and thoughts about items which are now in the news

Dec
10
2009

My fifteen minutes of fame and a link from the BBC

Everybody gets their "fifteen minutes of fame". That one moment in time you are famous. And then you get back to your normal routine. It could very well be that my fifteen minutes of fame were this week.
I’m in Paris at the moment, visiting Le Web. I’m writing here for Searchcowboys about search-related topics [...]

Jun
11
2008

Top five May 2008: A lot of search and online identity

The top five seemed to have died a silent death. Each week a post about my favorites ultimately proved not feasible. Not because there was nothing to write about, but because there are too many other subjects to write about. To get the top five breathing again I now give a monthly overview of five [...]

Apr
7
2008

Top five March 31 to April 6: The Next Web 2008

[lang_nl]De top vijf deze week staat, hoe kan het ook anders, volledig in het teken van The Next Web 2008. Alle vijf de items zijn afkomstig van The Next Web. Het is mijn persoonlijke top vijf voor de ‘Next-Web-dagen’. Daarbij uiteraard de prijs voor Dutch Cowboys, het interview van Mark de Kock met Scoble en [...]

Mar
16
2008

Top five March 10 to 16: Social Media, blogs and community journalism

After a period of absence the top five is back. Again you get an overview of five very interesting articles which provide more insight into the online opportunities. This week a lot of attention for Social Media and how you deal with it, including blogging and blogcomments. Last but not least an article about ‘community [...]

Mar
13
2008

Searchme: the new way of searching?

Last week Searchme launched the "private beta" version of its visual search engine. With this search engine you can ‘stroll’ through your search results.
In addition to the ‘apple’-like look-and-feel, the search engine is also innovative in how it categorizes search results. This again is very visual. For example, if you search for "Apple" you can [...]