SxSW day 5; closing the betterama future
The last day of the SxSW conference had a mixture of talks. As always the conference was closed by the great Bruce Sterling, that had also this time a very sharp story. “Those who live by disruption,...
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SxSW13: The design of our quantified life
It is now some two days ago I landed back from Austin, back from my second visit to SxSW Interactive (my maiden one was 2011). I did post daily on my experiences on labs.info.nl, but it is also good to...
View ArticleWeek 63; from Austin with inspiration
Last week I arrived back from Austin on Thursday morning, so most of the week I spend at SxSW. I made a daily post on my findings and an overall looking back this Saturday. Just like the 2011 edition I...
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Concepting a Car Orb
During her internship Laura Jongmans worked on the concept of Car Orb. This is a concept I developed some time ago, thinking of the car as one of our center-points of our connected life. Laura made a...
View ArticleWeek 64; This happened and more
This we worked on all running projects. As the graduation students that are working hard on their projects, all of them this moment finished their research and starting points. Also I had a meeting on...
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Creating the next level personas
During my internship at info.nl, amongst other projects, I researched and developed the concept of a Dynamic Persona Tool. It provides for research based, dynamic built and designer-friendly personas....
View ArticleWeek 65; on apps and ubiquitous data
This week I worked somewhat more on the Shopping2020 expert group set up. I discussed a app idea based on data with a partner that collected a pile of data. More on that later for sure. Talking on apps...
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Connect by sensing
During my internship at info.nl I worked on several projects including a project we worked on with Sense-OS. Iskander, Joris and me went to Sense-OS in Rotterdam. Sense-OS makes algorithms and sensors...
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The DIY life of singularity
Last Tuesday evening I attended the first open edition of the Singularity University event in the Netherlands. It was my second after the debut event in the beginning of 2012. I’m not a uncritically...
View ArticleWeek 66; the mobile home-base of Facebook
Next to the labs activities, business development takes up quite some time these weeks. Supporting our sales team in creating (hopefully) compelling online strategies as part of the sales trajects....
View ArticleExperiencing IoT in Rotterdam
Last week Peter van Waart and Martin Pot organized IoTRotterdam. A series of events on the theme of the Internet of Things with a slight focus on the relation with the built environment. I attended the...
View ArticleWeek 67; IoTweek
This was a week with a lot of visits to Rotterdam. The Internet of Things week Rotterdam organized an conference on Tuesday that I attended. There were some nice speakers and attendees, and a fine...
View ArticleThe end of social media as we know it
Almost a year ago I was invited to give my view on the modern panopticon driven by the emerging connected world of things and Internet. I was reminded to this article by the topic of next week’s meetup...
View ArticleWeek 68; big data crime solving
The week started with a trip to Italy to present our proposal for a hopefully new client, together with our partner 77Agency. Returning on Wednesday morning I took the train to Schiedam for another...
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The next web is real
It is a tradition to attend The Next Web conference for me, I think since the second edition. This year was a not so ideal visit; I needed to skip the second day and also had a rather early leave on...
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The future of Digital Identity
On the 25th of April 2013 info.nl hosted the meeting of the Club of Amsterdam and we discussed several topics considering ‘The death of social media as we know it,’ Panopticon and living in a police...
View ArticleWeek 69 + 70; Glass all over the place
For this one time I combine two weeks. The 1st week ended with The Next Web conference. I planned to attend two days, but was not able to make the Friday due to a rescheduled new business meeting....
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Find your way to TomTom
On a rainy thursday, the 16th of May, the UX Cocktail Hours meeting was hosted by TomTom, on the 6th floor of their office on De Ruyterkade. With presentations about: UX at TomTom, New TomTom GO;...
View ArticleWeek 71 + 72; all connected with meaning
These period was focused around the development of a concept and leading the creative team for a new business opportunity. Pitching is not directly related to Labs, but the project fits is definitely...
View ArticleLooking back on QS Europe conference
In the weekend of May 11 we attended Quantified Self Europe Conference. Antoine on Sunday and I did the Saturday. I am following the whole QS movement and events for a while now but was not able to...
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