This weekend there was a lot of rumor about the report on the problems at the football club Ajax. On Friday the report leaked to a number of journalists. On Sunday it was presented.

One of the many criticisms heard was that Ajax is no longer the ‘open club’ of the past but is a closed organization. This, they say, has everything to do with the IPO of the club.

Ajax is still not really open about the follow up of the report. The President yesterday did not answer any questions dealing with the consequences of the report. Still there was some openness: the dissemination of the report. Ajax placed a PDF of the entire report on its website. At least that is openness.

Anyone can now read the report. That would not have been possible 20 years ago. Long live the medium Internet!

Read the whole report in PDF format (see also website Ajax)

I Twitter. I often have to explain to customers and other relations what Twitter is. And that’s pretty tricky. It is not so very difficult to explain how Twitter works, but to explain exactly what it is and what its usefulness is, is more difficult.

At Twitter the intention is that you answer the question "What are you doing". As a result, you may only receive alerts as "at work", "at lunch" etcetera. That doesn’t seem like information you really need to know.

Although the service is used in this way by very many people, it is in practice often something else.I use Twitter in particular to communicate with others in the industry. I get interesting links, keep in touch with interesting people and get to know new interesting people. My network is growing because of Twitter. Therefore I do not use it is privately, but purely work-related.

You can use Twitter is in many ways, to me, these are the main advantages of Twitter:

• Contact with people in my industry
• Acquiring knowledge about the market
• Finding interesting links
• Sharing interesting information
• Branding

I think at this moment Twitter is a tool which is used primarily by the early adopters, not yet by the big crowds. Therefore I use it as an early adopter and to talk to these early adopters. As long as you know who and why you’re using it it’s a very useful tool.

Below you can see three movies about Twitter. The first is a news item on CBS News about Twitter, the second is a breakdown of Twitter and the third is a humorous film from Seesmic on a visit to the headquarters of Twitter.

Twitter at CBS

How to use Twitter

Seesmic Twitter