The Next Web 2009 in pictures

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 19th, 2009
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Photography by Anne Helmond for the Next Web. More pictures in the The Next Web 2009 (Set) and even more by DailyM and Marjolijn. Feel free to add your own pictures tagged with ‘tnw’ to the Next Web Flickr group.

Eric A. Meyer “Death to plugins, JavaScript will save us all”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 17th, 2009
Meyer talks about the next web from a front-end engineering perspective. He explains how JavaScript will help build the next web on top of the web that aleady exists today. For example, YouTube shows the movies in Flash but Flash movies are completely inaccessible to keyboard users. We are paralyzed so we need to bring back [...]

Nicolay Yaremko: “Exploring doors from future webs”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 17th, 2009
There is a border of screens dividing our lives. The web of things welcomes us to the world of ominipresent digital ether (as a form of augmented reality.) Yaremko offers us a different way to think about ubiqutous computing through the concept of origami cards made from electronic paper for only 1-5 dollars a piece. [...]

Jim Stolze “5 ways the internet can make us happier”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 17th, 2009
Jim Stolze asks the audience “can you do without the internet” which is addressed with a loud “NO” by the bloggers sitting behind me. As part of his research project he asked people what they would do without the internet. Seth Godin said he would have to open a restaurant. Boris (The Next Web) said he [...]

Chris Sacca “Users distinguish success from failure”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 16th, 2009
Christopher Sacca is a venture investor, private equity principal, and company advisor focusing on consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups. Most recently, Chris was Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, he headed up alternative access and related product development. His most visible projects include Google’s 700MHz and TV white spaces [...]

Klaas Verbeken “Porn as the backbone of technological innovation online”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 16th, 2009
Klaas Verbeken starts his Pecha Kucha presentation titled “Porn & the future of the web” with the obvious question: Who has downloaded pr0n? The greatest common nominator in mankind is sex, however sex doesn’t sell. 40% of all downloads are porn related. We currently have sharp high-quality HD Video but we want DVD because [...]

Andrew Keen “Web 2.0 is dead, long live Twitter”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 16th, 2009
Moderator and conference organizer Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten asked Andrew Keen to address the following question in his keynote: Why do you love the web? Note: written from the (I/we) point of Andrew Keen. We are living in a critical moment in history. The post-industrial is clearly different from the industrial age. Technology is not interesting because [...]

Ricardo Baeza-Yates “People don’t want to search”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 16th, 2009
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Music and Bits – The Mustick is a party starter

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 16th, 2009
Instead of only talking about music or online music applications there was also a chance to perform! Mustick allows you to rock out and be a star even if you aren’t that musically talented. Music and Bits & Mobile Dev Camp attendees rock out to Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana. Conceived from a Industrial Design TU/e project on [...]

Music and Bits – Film it Yourself

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 15th, 2009
Today, the Next Web Conference kicked off with three smaller events. The Spaces venue was filled with music lovers and mobile developers for two of the Wednesday events: Music and Bits and Mobile Dev Camp Amsterdam. Kickoff by Peter Robinett (Mobile Dev Camp) and Edial Dekker (Music & Bits) VPRO 3VOOR12 – Film it Yourself Ron van [...]

Hugh MacLeod: “Blogs aren’t dead, people are”

Posted by Anne Helmond on October 24th, 2008
BLOG08 starts in less than an hour and the program is full of rock’n'roll bloggers who will talk about the various aspects of blogging from different angles. Blogs are alive and kicking, in contrast to the provocative Wired article that once again declared blogs dead. Speaker Scott Rafer referred to the article as the “perfect [...]

PLAY: a petanque tournament in pictures

Posted by Anne Helmond on August 26th, 2008
Who said petanque is not a serious business? About a hundred Dutch web enthusiasts and entrepreneurs got up early on Saturday morning to play a tournament organized by The Next Web. Here is the day in pictures. Patrick de Laive and Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten assign numbers and lanes to all the teams. Many teams came well [...]

The Next Web Salon “Making a better appelflap every day”

Posted by Anne Helmond on June 18th, 2008
The Next Web Salon is a small and intimate event for people working on, or interested in, the people, ideas and companies powering the Next Web. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten from the Next Web was inspired by the story of a local bakery with excellent fresh products. The decline of good bakeries made Boris wonder what [...]

Joikuspot relieves offline troubles by turning your Nokia Smartphone into a WLAN HotSpot

Posted by Anne Helmond on May 12th, 2008
They say moving house is in the top ten of the most stressful things in life. Moving your Internet connection along with it is definitely in the social media addict’s top three. There are tons of horror stories from people disconnected for weeks after moving house, so I thought I would prepare well. I notified [...]

First Girl Geek Dinner in Amsterdam well attended

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 12th, 2008
The Girl Geek Dinners are very popular in the Bay Area, Seattle but also in Europe in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the UK. Local editions of the dinners are organized world wide by volunteers and Melanie Rieback and Donna Metzlar started organizing the first Dutch edition a few months ago. The first Amsterdam Girl Geek [...]

Jessicah Mah: “Recommendations are crap!”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 4th, 2008
Jessicah Mah is a 17 year old serial entrepreneur and blogger who started her first business at 11 years old and a dedicated server company at the age of 13. She is now a sophomore in college but still loves starting businesses. Mah expressed a common complaint on the web: We have so much clutter and [...]

Werner Vogels: “Everything fails all the time”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 4th, 2008
Werner Vogel is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com and focuses on technology innovation within the company. As “the oldest guy in the slate” at the Next Web Vogel takes a few steps back and looks at the larger patterns in the media world instead of presenting a visionary view. Media have [...]

Nova Spivack: “The Semantic Web as an open and less evil web”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 3rd, 2008
Nova Spivack is a web visionary, entrepreneur and the founder of semantic web application Twine. It is a service that aims to “tie it all together” in order to make sense of the web. The semantic web is a popular buzz word used for giving meaning to the web. Moderator Erick Schonfeld is not alone [...]

Leah Culver and the magical unicorn: A Pownce story

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 3rd, 2008
Leah Culver is a co-founder and lead developer of Pownce, a social messaging application that combines micro-blogging and social networking. She is notable for her laser-etched MacBook Pro with Web2.0 company logos. By selling advertisement space on top of her laptop she was able to afford to replace her ancient Mac with a shiny new [...]

Keynote: Khris Loux “Bloggers and startups, challenge the big companies and embrace open standards”

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 3rd, 2008
Khris Loux is CEO and co-founder of JS-Kit, a start-up company that provides widgets to easily add interactivity to your site: Our simple, modular and fully customizable web-services, also known as “widgets”, are fast becoming the building blocks of rich, interactive online experiences for leading-edge web sites. These solutions are self-service, elegant, powerful, and easily [...]

Keynote: Adeo Ressi

Posted by Anne Helmond on April 3rd, 2008
Who is TheFunded.com founder “Ted”? Valleywag tried to reveal his secret identity and Inc Magazine also compiled a suspect list consisting of Blogger-founder Evan Williams, Weblogs-founder Jason Calacanis, Gawker Media-founder Nick Denton and Digg-founder Kevin Rose. However, after nine months of anonymity and wild speculations about his identity “Ted” finally revealed himself in a carefully [...]