One of my favorite conferences is denhaagtelecom, this year with theme Telecom 2.0. I was one of the keynote speakers and of course as Veronica we made a great show of it. We not only introduced a special KINKFM album/CD with Dr. Black music specialists top hits, also V-radio did a full broadcast. Awesome to see the machine in action...

Buzzing through Amsterdam today to sort things for my upcoming trip to Cambodia and Vietnam.
I am a very happy man, as I will join the masterclass given by GARY KNIGHT and
PHILIP BLENKINSOP....

The Amsterdam marathon is always a terrific experience. Over 20.000 people running... We always go to the Vondelpark and it is fascinating to see that where in the first passing there, the 'field' is still fairly close together, at the second one...hours apart...the full set here.

I have tried to avoid it, but in the end it is so paradigm shifting... With so many telecom and media events coming up like my speeches at among others Tsoc, denhaagtelecom , highprofile and telecomtime...So yes I do have an iPhone too now.... not migrated to 1.1.1 yet but fully functional...

The Amsterdam Opencoffee meetup is always an interesting gathering with entrepreneurs, internet and interactive people, VC's and sofort. The new location at Coffee Company is nice too. I'll try to go more often...

One of the nice things of being shareholder in the Foam Fund is that I meet interesting photographers, like today Morad Bouchakour. He shoots in a special way using specific cameras, high aperture and using a lot of flash with lots of detail and very sharp images. Virtually the opposite of my shooting style...

Nice meeting up with the Wakoopa guys for dinner. They are making a lot of traction in their development. Of course they work on applications for the iPhone too....

The developments in new digital media, music and video are still in hyper-growth. Which implies breakthrough developments, devices and new business models. Within Veronica that is exactly the pioneering direction we will be taking. This will als have implications for the telecommunications sector, that is moving towards a Telecom 2.0 status. This will be the topic for The Hague Telecom, the leading telecommunications conference and event yearly in The Hague. I will be presenting some exciting and swinging views on what we see will be happening. If you want to be joining you can do so by registering here, it is a free event, so do not hesitate...

We launched the book "Herinnert u zich deze nog?" ("Do you remember this one?" - a popular question on Veronica when playing a golden oldie) written bij Arjen Snijders about the years 1975-2005 of Veronica. An intriguing history of some wild periods within Veronica full of 'sex, drugs and rock&roll'. Next to looking back we looked forward with the people from our award winning radiostation V-radio doing a live broadcast on the internet. Much more info on the book will follow on Veronica story, our digital archives... (It will be Dutch only). Veronica was, is and will be the rebellious commercial Dutch media company, always pioneering new frontiers... the pictures of today can be found here

Update: apparently having the t-shirt means having the company. The rumours proved to become true quite quickly. So theses are the tips for entrepreneurs: get company t-shirts, get them to those that can acquire your company and make sure that you can get to a fax machine as all transactions always require lots of faxing....
Congratulations to Jyri and all the others in the Jaiku team!

A couple of very interesting days in Greece attending Stream 2007, the Kinnernet style un-conference sponsored by WPP. Lots of familiar faces (among them alliance friends of PICNIC) and many new took the opportunity to discuss and embrace the latest in marketing, investing, internet and technology. Also a place where rumours about an upcoming transaction relating to Jaiku were around...What people wearing t-shirts can create is unbelievable...
The full picture set can be found here.
I am very happy by the way with the iPod touch. I think many of the people where sporting an iPhone (with most of those hacked...), but I prefer the iPod as it has more memory and is slimmer... on top of that I prefer the Blackberry for mail...