This evening I attend a session of the Club of Amsterdam with the theme ‘The Future of Gaming’. An interesting theme because the principles of gaming are much related to appealing interaction for online services in general and social systems in particular.

In this post by Robert Scoble, he coined some interesting thoughts ont the developments of SEO and SEM. I especially found the ideas on the evolution of search engines like Google and Bing to search results that are relevant by heart and…

I proposed a talk for Reboot this year. It accumulates my feelings on a emerging trend on impulse shaped services. In the period heading to the conference I’ll try to connect findings on this topic from others if I ran into them.

For a while now I believe in the use of gaming principles for creating engaging interactive services. In the last week I visited different events where some things come together connected to that theme. In the visit to the University of Film &…

This weekend there was an interesting conference in New York on the concept of singularity. I did not attend the conference, but read some reports on it. The whole idea of singularity, where the power of computer intelligence is heading up or even overtaking our own…

Facebook kondigde op SXSW conferentie aan dat hun Facebook connect functionaliteit beschikbaar wordt voor iPhone-app ontwikkelaars. Daarmee is het makkelijker om je community vanuit Facebook te koppelen aan een app. In een andere lezing op de…

Interessant antwoord op een vraag uit de zaal bij SXSW lees ik op de posterous blog van @erwblo:

Vraag via twitter, iemand die bij een verzekeraar werkt en zicht afvraagt hoe hij zich interessanter kan maken. Advies…

Today I attended the Design by Fire conference. For me it was the first time, I heard a lot of good stories from last years edition and always like to see Matt Jones of course. It was a pleasant day with nice people and some good talks. Where especially Matt Jones delivers to…