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...