Today I’m at the Transformatorhuis to help preparing this impressive and industrial building for The Next Web Conference. To be honest with you, for me it comes down to writing blog posts about the conference, taking pictures and showing some start-ups the way. Fun work though, and I’m pretty excited about witnessing the organization of such a big event from the inside. How excited, well…, a photo says more than a thousand words:

Photo by Lenniez

Tomorrow I’ll be conference blogging with Anne Helmond. We’ll…

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Yesterday was hectic day. First I went to the Web 2.0 conference PLUGG in Brussels, to do some hard conference blogging. It was a fairly interesting and well-organized conference. However I did find out that I hate panels. See the Next Web for more coverage.

I had to leave kinda early, to show up at the Dutch Bloggies - The Dutch Oscars for blogs - in The Hague. The Next Web was nominated three times (ICT, Technology and Marketing) and Spotlight Effect managed to get…

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Number 1 tip to stay fit and prevent RSI is to keep moving. You gotta just do more than just making a walk to the coffee machine. You have to use your muscles and start sweating a bit. Play ping-pong, fussball or.., make up your own game. That’s exactly what we did at the Meganova office.

When I was at Le Web 3 in Paris, I found a pink stress relief ball in my goodie bag. At first, I just used it for…

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Just wrote an article for The Next Web about VIDDIX, a new service that combines video and web content. Your video is playing at the left, while web content is popping up at the right. Where YouTube and Slideshare end, VIDDIX is just about to get started. Co-founder Sébastien Willems interviewed me to test his service. Unfortunately it’s in Dutch, so only you Dutchies out there are able to understand the interview. Don’t worry though, the service itself is way more…

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There it is, yet another blog! Number 3 for me, yet this will be a completely different story than The Next Web and Spotlight Effect. This is the place where I can write whatever I want, whenever I want. But to keep it interesting for a large crowd, I’ll also post blog tips regularly. You can expect the following types of posts:

• How to-posts. Yeah I’ll do the ‘how to’ thing as well. Not to make it to the Digg frontpage though, but…

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This month has been rather hectic so far. Reason for this is the Open Office Road trip I’m making with my colleagues from The Next Web. Check out this video with Patrick and me in which we explain what this is all about. It was shot at OpenCoffee Paris.

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