Last night I witnessed music history, at least that’s what I thought. Tim Heineke and I sneaked into Paradiso to see the Reverend and the Makers, an indie-electro band from Sheffield, UK. I saw them before in December 2007 when they were the supporting act of that other band from Sheffield, the Arctic Monkeys. It was the first time I fell in love with a girl from a 60 feet…

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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…

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When we launched The Next Web on January 7 this year, we got TechCrunched right-a-way. That not only caused a lot of traffic, it also made my mailbox flood. I remember it seemed like every start-up mailed me a PR request that night. Still every day, I find an amount of new emails I would have never thought to receive on a daily basis. I had to find a way…

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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…

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On The Next Web, we try to give our articles a hip and stylish look by using Flickr pics instead of just another logo. Or as a visitor once said in the comments: “Tryin’ too hard to be cool and artsy”. Well, I think we’re doing pretty good job, you may judge for yourself.

Anyway, I’ve stumbled upon two handy plugins that make being ‘cool’ and ‘artsy’ with Flickr pics…

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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…

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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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