Giving young talented companies a start is fascinating. Today we announced our investment in Viddix through our joint investment fund with Ilse, TMG and IDG. Guys go and mix up web and video!

There are always nice things to do and to follow in the Vondelpark. In the open air theater today we had some singalong songs from Ricky and Leo. Apparently the theater is under threat of closure, which would be a pity...

Today we announced our investment in music aggregator Cloudspeakers, a promising Dutch start-up with international potential. We wish the team all the traction they need!

A great day at the wicket today with the NacheniusTjeenk Twenty20 cricket finals. The full set including the shot of Johnny Solo is here

Fellow IPAN board member Vincent Gravesteyn got married today on 888... A very nice party and luckily the ceremony got through between the rain showers... the full set is here

I have put some of the pictures from my TPW Toscane workshop with Antonin Kratochvil online here at Flickr. Like in the good analog days, it is better to have some reflection time between shooting and seeing the end product. Looking back at a wonderful week, brings lots of great reflections!

Roderick was always quite keen on water, but not an avid swimmer. Now things have changed and he want to master the 'schwimmung' as soon as possible...the full set is here.

I have just returned from a fantastic TPW photography workshop with Antonin Kratochvil in Toscane. More pictures will follow coming days....

A big day in my little boys life: getting his first fishes. What an experience...

Philip Blenkinsop, my tutor in Cambodia, gave me the love for analogue photography back. So I am shooting with my analogue Leica MP again. But I also want to have that grainy feeling when I am shooting with my M8. Therefore I have been working with Truegrain last couple of months and now I am experimenting with Silver Efex Pro another great grain and more plug in for Aperture. If someone has some more applications in this field, please let me know as I will be out on a workshop again as of next week with Antonin Kratochvil.

I waited for the first and second generation Newton and the first iPhone I had to have... even though it meant having it hacked. I haven't waited in line for the new 3G iPhone yet as have many others here in The Netherlands, but I will get it of course... and in the meantime I've upgraded to the new 2.0 software on my iPod touch. Some very early thoughts:

3G is great, GPS and location based services will be huge and I am waiting for Bliin on the iPhone, but I think the real story is the app store, ease of purchase/payment and wireless delivery, and the innovation and functionality we have learned to love from Apple.

I love the Twitter client, Buienradar and Netnewswire as initial starting applications. I cannot wait for the 3G iPhone to use the GPS applications!

Great weather for the Cartier/Nachenius Tjeenk Summer Polo. An excellent day in the field with many interesting people to talk too. The full set can be found here.

Next to being a good friend, Ibon is a fantastic cook and he made a delicious Paella for us....finger licking....

Our good Spanish friend Ibon is visiting Amsterdam again, a very good reason to get together indeed...

The summer holidays have started. People are getting into summer feeling and taking their boats out in the canals...

Sneaker pimping i.e. personalizing your sports shoes is one of the great developments of making mass production products individual and loved. Roderick got a couple of smashing K-Swiss all naturals turned into 'Kraken' monstered super sneakers. Thanks to Sara-Antoinette Martin! We also got a great pimped Babuschka set by Richard Barnocky. Way to go! The full set of the production process is to be found here.

Another great and entertaining dinner at Boris Veldhuizen van Zanten. Interesting people from Efactor, Twones, Thenextweb, Fleck, Thenextspeaker and more. The pictures can be found here

A very interesting 6th version of the InterimIC Diner Pensant with two good speakers from the public sector. Secretary of Economic Affairs Jan-Kees de Jager and Gerard Dielessen, Managing Director of NOS, the Dutch Public broadcaster. It was nice to see all the fascinating people discussing the failure of ICT projects moderated by the one-and-only Vincent Everts.. The full set can be found here.

Today we went to the first showing of Kung Fu Panda in The Netherlands. A great animated movie by Dreamworks about a panda... the boys loved it!

The second highlight today was the graduation of the Veronica Radioschool Class of 24. Last Monday they had their graduation project Radiobitches and today they got their diplomas. the full set is here.

A fantastic live set today with Nils Lofgren in Jan Douwe Kroeske's 2metersessies in Desmet in Amsterdam. It will be broadcasted with Kinkfm soon. What a great artist indeed! The full set

An interesting day today at the first mediaparkjaarcongres, the conference organized for the benefit of promoting cross media in Hilversum. I did a start up panel moderated by Vincent Everts. Some promising start ups we might invest in... the full set is here

A great evening at the Radiobitches. The class of 24 did an excellent job of creating such an event. Great awards for the best female radio personalities and great music of among others Kraaksmaak...

A great day at Arrow Rock festival in Nijmegen today. Lots of heavy bands giving a great show. My favorites Motorhead rocking like ever. The big crowds came for KISS and many many were in the same outfit as their heroes...The full set can be found here

A special day today. Not only did we announce our investment in the Dutch leading on-demand media platform Gespod, met with the Euro-pace partners, but we also sponsored the new media start-up event 'beerandinnovation'. an interesting and stimulating day indeed, the full set of pictures is here at flickr.

The 10th anniversary BBQ of IPAN was a smashing success. Over 300 people enjoyed a great BBQ and disco provided by Veronica. We invited IAB and DIFA (women's internet marketing) too to celebrate with us. 925people started by Jort Kelder and Michiel Frackers came and interviewed us and filmed it all as this was one of the key interactive meetings this month. The full set is here on Flickr

Back from a terrific week in San Francisco, meeting old and new media and friends. The city is beautiful, but it is a shame and pity to see so many homeless people around....
I have taken some of the pictures through truegrain, you can see the results here.

A great final day in San Francisco visiting worldclass organisations in the creative field: Meyersound and Expression College. The latter being very interesting given the focus on talent within Veronica and given that it was the college of late Eckart Wintzen, who whould have been here with us... the full set on San Francisco is here

Our San Francisco visit is packed with interesting visits and meetings with tech and media companies. Mostly with US companies and individuals, but also with Dutch entrepreneurs such as Arthur van Hoff, a true technological visionair that works and lives in the area...

The opportunity to meet up with great people when you are in their town hasn't lost any of the excitement, not even in these days of Web2.0. Among others we met with Cathy Brooks of Seesmic and Leweb and here dog. The SF set is here.

Great weather today, allowing for a good stroll through the city. Here are some views to share with you..

I have arrived in San Francisco, the wheather isn't optimal yet, but will be improving. if you are around and would like to meet up, let me know.
The full set will be here at flickr

A very interesting session today with Jeff Howe, the creator of the crowdsourcing concept. Not only is he an exciting speaker, he also brings some great stories of the involvement of crowds in the creative process. The guys from CreativeCrowds (a DCIF investment) were very much part of this happening and kudos to them! the full set can be found here on flickr

Roderick got his first computer today, his own Apple iMac. As you can imagine, he is very happy with it....The iMac pay off: "Beauty. Brains. And now more brawn." is very appropriate to my little man....

Roderick's friends are back from their holiday on Ibiza. Big happy party today as they go playing in the park...

A great day to visit creative friends. Roderick and I went to see Minne and his family whilst he was working on some new projects. Always very fascinating to see what he is up to....

Turning 40 is always a special happening, especially when you live in another country. Our good friend Camilla celebrated hers in Amsterdam with good friends in a nice programme. The full set is here.

The launch party of Sprxmobile was a big success. Not only due to the nice weather but also because it is great to see some exciting people getting together to create their own start up, good luck to the team! The full set can be found here at Flickr

The hottest button to button: social networking. There is a rocketboom in social networking developments and we are only looking at the first part of the boom. IPAN had the most important social networking actors in The Netherlands in the panel yesterday; such as Hyves, Netlog, Myspace, Sparkx and KREM. The full set of the evening that I moderated can be found here at Flickr. A well written report (in Dutch) by Peter Olsthoorn of the evening can be found here at Emerce.

Nothing special about this picture of a homeless drifter in Amsterdam at Spui. What is special though is the amount of statistics you can get at Flickr regarding your pictures. This picture,when I just posted it, had stats of '0' views. Quite logical of course given that I looked at the stats immediately after posting it...
Very interesting to have a look at the stats for my account rather then the last individual picture. Over 400,000 views and in April two days with over 500 views per day....Also interesting to see that most of the views come through Flickr for me (66%). In short the egocaster gets many tools to analyze what's going on with his content...

UPDATE: the stats can only be viewed from within Flickr and probably only by me.....therefore a little screenshot...

My analogue views of the world can be created through the digital route. It does not stop to amaze me.... This specific picture is one of a set of Queensday pictures I took (full set can be found here and not all pictures have gone through the analogue process as you can see). I used Truegrain again for this picture, selecting Kodak® Professional T-MAX P3200 as setting. Amazing....In the world of retrofut we are only at the beginning....

On April 30 we celebrate Koninginnedag or Queensday in The Netherlands, the birthday of our Queen (or effectively the former Queen's birthday). Thousands and thousands of people come to the event in Amsterdam and to the museum square. It was a special Queensday for me this year... The full set can be found here on Flickr.

Kinkfm was present at the rocking ticket for Tibet festival in Amsterdam yesterday. Great to see the team operational in the field...

Father Braam leaves the Obrecht church as active pastor after 31 years. His big farewell was a great happening today. The full set can be found here on Flickr.

I just returned from some spectacular days in Israel at Kinnernet 2008. The geek and media festival and extravaganza that Yossi Vardi and his team put together. Drag racing with tools, music, industry sessions, ice cream and more.... The full set can be found at Flickr (all pictures have been washed with Truegrain for the analogue diary effect that I like so much...)

Today we had the kick off for the Euro Pace project in Amsterdam.

The best way to describe it is as a portable (like, totally portable) DJ mixing device with 120GB storage for your tunes. Using the Pacemaker, it’s possible to scratch and mix as on turntables.

We want to know its limits. Is it a toy? A professional alternative? Something in-between? Something else entirely?

We also want to know how it fits into the Music 2.0 world. How does this device encourage online community and sharing? What’s the connection between this and other mobile music devices?

Andrew Dubber and his team will be running it from the UK and we will do it from Hilversum and Amsterdam...

The set of pictures of the Amsterdam kick off can be found here at flickr...

A great conference in Amsterdam these days: Thenextweb2008. I moderated the startup panel and afterwards followed some very interesting presentations. The full set can be found here at flickr.

Having followed the reportage workshop with Philip Blenkinsop and Gary Knight in Cambodia a couple of months ago, I decided to get a film Leica too. The workflow, aesthetics etc of film is just very different to digital, it creates analogue diaries.... Also the image output is very different.... Until I found Truegrain, a fantastic application that creates the film look and characteristics to digital shots. I still need to get used to getting it right, but it is a very snazzy application indeed....

First Tuesday of the month means Ipan meeting. Today the hot ticket 'crowdsourcing' was the theme. The specialists and evangelists in The Netherlands came to review this theme. Is it just hype or marketing or is it more? After a diverging discussion, all came together in seeing the positive sides of crowdsourcing, though some doubts remain too...From a DCIF perspective we believe this to be an interesting evening as we invested in CreativeCrowds of the companies in the panel today...