At Lift, Bruce Sterling discussed the possible impact scenarios that might happen with Nicolas Szarkozy and his new wife Carlo. One scenario was the high ambition/high publicity scenario...That one appears to be happening immediately after his speech....

Laurent Haug is looking back at a very successful Liftconference in Geneva, where I am on the advisory board. Three days of extravaganza, followed by a strategy weekend in the mountains, brainstorming on the things to go for in '09 and in Asia. Thanks to Pierre for being very hospitable and opening his chalet for us. The full picture set of Lift this year

Following the conference some of the speakers as Scott Smith, Robert Scoble and Bruce Sterling went to the mountains for some strategy work. Before going to the mountains, we went to Cern to see one of the largest scientific projects in the world. A rare and unique opportunity as it will be closed for the general audience as of this winter...

A great final conference day in Geneva at Liftconference. The photoset can be found here...

A great first conference day at liftconference 2008. From Bruce Chatwin on the Sarkozy family to global warming. Finished off by the ultimate in fondues... I am loading the pictures to Flickr but the connection is slow slow slow...

Lift 08 has started with big bangs. Together with Laurent Haug I moderated the Venture session with 8 great start-ups from Europe and the VS. A terrific panel (among others Robert Scoble, Pierre Chapaz) made the guys sweat, but learn a lot too....

Another very interesting evening at Ipan that I moderated. The topic was the latest egocaster and egolurker tool: Twitter.
Erwin Blom had his 20.000 twitter post at the event...
More twitteratzi then iPhone owners among the 100 attendees, but just... the full series is here on flickr, the MP3 reports made by Veronica will be posted at Ipan soon.

At last weeks Bowlr event in Amsterdam, many many were looking at their keyboards and screens and sharing what they were doing or following what others were doing...Twitter it is called.. Is this the latest craze or a revolutionary new way of communication and social interaction? Come and find out at next week's Ipan event on Tuesday from 19:30. I will be moderating the evening with many of the leading 'Twitteratzi' in The Netherlands around and Erwin Blom of The Crowds doing an introduction....Do not miss it...

A fantastic Bowlr '08 with great games going on at the bowling ring... The Veronica DJ's turning the place upside down... the full set of pictures is here...

A young woman hit by a taxi mirror...

Roderick is keen on sports. After having played tennis for almost two hours, we went off to do some skating on the Museumsquare...

Never a dull moment in Amsterdam. These guys were playing tetris for a viral movie for an energy company... The guy from the snackbar below became not amused very quickly...

Dld was great! The team did an excellent job getting 'uploading the 21st century' together and done very well on the execution indeed... the full set of my pictures can be found here

Another great day at DLD08. Full house in all the sessions, people sitting on the floor and standing in corridors. Great to see such good content being appreciated by so many...
The other thing I also like a lot here, are the Burda photographers. Very nice and professional team that make super pictures...

The kick off for DLD. A great bunch of people together. Before the official start of DLD I had the pleasure of going on a tour of the Pinakothek, one of the great museums in Munich. You can follow the activities on this photo-set on Flickr...

Great to be back in Munich for the 08 version of Burda Media DLD. I am meeting up with old and new friends and will be going through a very interesting and inspiring program coming days...

'Paris callling'. The music scene in Paris is vibrant. Meeting up with record labels, retailers, promoters and organisers and new media companies was very inspiring...

We have a second shooter in the family now. Roderick is becoming a keen photographer and has secured his own little Leica for that purpose......

2007 was a very special year for me.
On the downside I lost my father, which was a big blow....

On the positive side there were many many highlights. I traveled around the world a lot: Jordan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Denmark, Greece, South Africa,... I started a great new job at Veronica..., worked with great photography pro's,...did some terrific conferences,....enjoyed my little boy's presence....in short many great things indeed!

I hope '08 will be again great and full of inspiration for me and I wish that for all of you too....

A great holiday to Jordan... taking both an M8 and the MP. The latter shots will follow later as those will have to be developed. I also have some issues with some SD cards, anyhow; the first batch of pictures can be found here...