It was nice to take a break from unpacking today. I went to the park with some good friends, It is nice to live so close to the park where we can walk around and enjoy the sun. Even though I had a lot to do, many boxes to unpack, furniture to sell or move, and keep looking for a job; it was nice to take that break and enjoy life back in Amsterdam for a bit. Thanks for the pics Marc. Thanks for the call GabeB, and thanks Suze for the hugs.
Apparently Mobuzz.tv was one of 9 nominated companies to win the Fiasco award in Barcelona. No, this doesn't make me feel like a failure at all! Thank god Vista came out.
Microsoft’s Vista wins Fiasco Award - Apple 2.0
A quirky, slightly tongue-in-cheek project of the Catalan Association of Telecommunications Engineers, the Fiasco Awards are designed not to “criticize” or “engage in public derision,” according to their website, but to recognize that “technological advance is not a straight path” and that “success and fiasco are … head and tail of the same coin.”
“God rewards fools,” reads the award’s logo.
Using a balloting system weighted to ensure that “an opportunity was given to local projects,” a consolation prize went to SAGA, the Administration and Academic Management System of the Catalan Government.
The nine finalists were all over the lot, mixing the famous, the local and the obscure. The list included One Laptop Per Child’s $100 computer; Linden Lab’s Second Life; Google’s (GOOG) Lively; the DAB digital radio system used in Europe; the Madrid-based Mobuzz.tv project; Maresme Digital, a project for bringing digital television to Catalonia; and some Linux-based free software packs distributed by the local government administration.
Here is the video. Mobuzz is number 4. Well at least we are with some big names. :-)
My friends arrived and decided it would be nice to go for a bike ride. One visiting from Munich, the other just returning to Amsterdam from Madrid, both of them needed a rental. No biggie, a short walk downtown and 10 euro’s later we were on our way. Going up down the Amstel River was a nice option, stopping for beer, bitterballen and apple pie, then comfortably return to the city.
Carnival in Madrid A great day in Madrid with Elisa and Karina, all ex-Mobuzz like myself. What a great day we had together. Thanks girls!
Here are all the pictures:
This is hilarious. Sorry Jon. With Bush out, you have to stretch and bust on twitter? Come on mate.
Saw this come in through Facebook. I think we have all been there at one point or another. Poor Puss.
Ok. There is a video coming, lots actually, but here is a little taster of my trip to Davos and the World Economic Forum. Anyone read "The Alchemist" should know P.C. below.
Just before the DLD conference, GabeB and I joined up with some friends to have dinner. A kind of tradition now. We always go and have sausages, beer, and typical Bavarian deserts. Great times. This year Guido van Nispen, R.J. Friedlander, Alex Wunschel (and his lovely girlfriend), Jonathon Marks, Rodrigo Sepulveda, Blonde 2.0, Constantin Bjerke and Alex and Sabine from the DLD team joined us. Here are some great pics that Rodrigo made from the night... It was so much fun and a great start of the conference....
I haven't been blogging as much as I should have been, so I figured it is time for some catch up posts. Before hitting the DLD conference with GABEB I went out with JAG. I've only been talking with JAG online, and it was so great to finally meet her in person. We had a great night dancing at the Escape in Amsterdam thanks to a couple of free tickets from Pensly. Here is a short video of dancing. Ok, it is one of my, "I don't care" video styles. But still nice. I'm sure there are a lot of jealous guys out there going to look at this. All I can say about JAG is that she is one of the coolest people you will ever meet.
During DLD Yossi Vardi and Gabe Mac get to conduct a 4 string quartet in their own styles thanks to Itay Talgam. This video is best watched with headphones.