Written on 23rd March 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
We don’t often share cool gadgets on TheNextWeb, maybe it’s time we did.
via picocool
Written on 19th February 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
There are two hardware elements which I have always been mildly disappointed with on the iPhone; the camera and the sound quality of it’s speakers.
For the latter, a company called Ten One Design have announced a product called SoundClip which increases the sound by about 10db between 6kH and 20kHz. Soundclip acts as a conical deflection chamber that directs sound from the iPhone towards you, increasing both sound clarity and volume.
As tech blog Crenk points out, the device is ideal for movies and music – however for gaming the device gets in the way and more of a nuisance.
You can buy it direct from Ten One Design at $7.99, however for overseas shipping the price doubles to $14.99
Written on 28th January 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
In exactly 77 days (15, 16 & 17 April, 2009) we expect 750+ entrepreneurs, investors and journalists (and you?) to attend the fourth edition of The Next Web Conference.
We already have a great collection of speakers and start-ups so today we want to officially launch the conference website to the general audience. Expect more announcements and additions in the following weeks!
We have special early bird tickets for sale (only 150 tickets available!) for only € 500,- which you might want to check out before they are sold out.
This is the press release/announcement we are sending out today:
The Future of the Web Unveiled
At this years edition of The Next Web Conference the future of the web will be unveiled! An international audience of more than 900 people from over 30 countries will discuss ideas, business models, and threats and solutions for the future of the web.
Matt Mullenweg (Founder WordPress), Andrew Keen (author of “The Cult of the Amateur”), Chris Sacca (Former Head of Special Initiatives at Google) and many more inspiring industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs and authors will share their vision on the Next Web.
The Next Web Conference is an annual Internet Conference held in Amsterdam since 2006. Last years event was attended by more than 750 people from over 30 countries and was streamed live online to an audience of 20.000 unique viewers. Effectively turning it into one of the largest Internet events in the world.
The Next Web Conference plays an important part in introducing Europe’s hot tech start-ups to investors and press. A selected group of 24 selected start-ups gets free access to the conference and main stage to present their technology to the audience. Previous editions played a crucial role in introducing Europe’s finest entrepreneurs to the world.
Demand for an event where attendees can get a glimpse of what the Next Web will be seems to be even higher in an Economic downturn. Patrick de Laive, organizer of The Next Web Conference explains:
“People become more selective in which events they are going to attend this year. Because this is our fourth edition and we have a track record we are experiencing a lot of interest in the conference from both attendees, start-ups and press. We expect it to be another great event!”
The Next Web Conference will be held April 15, 16 and 17, 2009 at the Westergasfabriek Terrein in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Some early bird tickets are still available at the conference website: http://2009.thenextweb.com
The Next Web Conference
Amsterdam, 15, 16 en 17 April 2009
Westergasfabriek
http://2009.thenextweb.comEarly Bird: EUR 500 (ex BTW)
(only 150 tickets available)
https://thenextweb.paydro.net/
Low Resolution logo:
http://2009.thenextweb.com/images/nextweb09.gifHigh Resolution logo:
http://2009.thenextweb.com/images/nextweb_logo_2009_final.eps
Dutch version of this press release:
http://thenextweb.com/beleef-de-toekomst-van-internet/
Written on 12th April 2008
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Simone Brummelhuis, writing about women on the web
As the Web 2.0 conference in San Fransisco is approaching, I thought to take on a look how many ‘female Steve jobs’ will appear on stage. By counting the list of 200+ speakers, 20 are women, so that’s 10%. Among them is somebody whose according to my definition a female hero, Tara Hunt, CEO of Citizen Agency.
Interesting is that of those 20 women, at least 10 still need to submit their bio (10 days before the actual conference), while of the male speakers about 99% have their bio submitted. Come on women, write down your achievements, or if you are to shy, hire a personal branding agency.
Of the keynote speakers, I only counted 2 women. One of the underlying ideas of these series is to promote that more women put themselves, or are asked, on stage. Not only could these women act as role models for aspiring Internet entrepreneurs, another effect of making women visible in the Internet industry from the beginning, is that it may prevent devaluation of the industry at a later stage. Indeed, what has happened in some industries when women entered or became visible at a later stage is that the whole profession started to devaluate, in status as well as money wise. This happened, for example, when women entered the education workplace or became judges or doctors. But since the Internet industry is only 5000 days old…, an thus we are at the beginning of an era, it is in the interest for men and women not to let this happen in this industry.
So, as a tip to the organization of Web 2.0 expo San Fransisco, here are a few American female heroes from my database: Patricia Gallup , CEO of PCConnection. Jean Armour Polly, founder of netmom.com, and the first woman elected to the Internet Society board of Trustees, currently working on connecting rural libraries to the Internet. In this time of social networking by kids a valuable contributor to the discussion. And just to name a few other American female heroes: Nancy Cruickshank, CEO of Videojug, Michelle Pelluso, CEO of Travelocity, Dawn Lepore, CEO of drugstore.com, Rebecca Blood, author of a weblog handbook, Janet Hanson, founder of network 85broads.com, Lisa Sounia founder of Dopplr, Joyce Chung, early stage investor at Garage Ventures, Peggy Liu of Mustang Ventures and Joanna Rees, also an investor. Who else is ready for last minute booking?
Written on 30th March 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
In only 3 days The Next Web Conference 2008 will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We will post short daily updates about speakers, initiatives and events here.
A lot of people have been asking us if we would provide Internet access and Wi-Fi during The Next Web Conference 2008. We sort of avoided the question and sometimes even said ‘No’. This has caused concern with some people so I thought it would be a good time to explain our ideas about the subject. But first THE answer to the question: “Will there be Wi-Fi for participants at The Next Web Conference 2008?”
The short answer: Yes.
The long answer: Yes, and a lot more! We will have a special area with wired ethernet connections to a 100mbit Up and Down connection, the fastest connection we could get. This area (front left at the main conference area) will also have enough power sockets to keep everybody online all day. In addition, we will have Wi-Fi connections for the rest of the audience people. We plan to split these up in several groups of 50 people who will all be able to connect to their own access point.
This means that if one of those groups takes the network down, at least the other groups will still be online until we restart the device. And if the Wi-Fi fails we always have wired backup for you. One thing: we DO expect the wireless network to go down. It is our experience that Wi-Fi becomes extremely unreliable when you get more than 30 people in the same room connected.
We hope that the speakers will be so extremely inspiring and captivating that the use of computers will be limited to live blogging, twittering and digitally reporting about the speakers on stage.
The Next Web, just like the current web, runs on love and attention.
We hope you will give our speakers lots of both. ;-)
Written on 5th March 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. Well, actually six questions, since we also ask the start-up to who he or she is passing the mic to.
This week we’re interviewing Arnout Mostert, a Dutch entrepreneur who lives and works in Singapore. Together with Frank Bomers he founded Conference Bay. This is a service that aims to make visiting, organizing and speaking at conferences a more pleasant experience. They do that by offering innovative online services to conference organizers, delegates and speakers such as an online bidding tool for tickets and an online booking application. They’ll soon launch a speakers section where speakers can create their own profile page.
“When I was working in Marketing for Shell in London during the the late nineties, I got the chance to join a new business that was set up to investigate the opportunities that new media could bring to a company like Shell. I attended quite a few conferences at the time and was amazed how often I would get calls or emails from the organizers offering me the ‘exclusive’ opportunity to bring a colleague for free, which basically is a 50% discount. One day I was sitting at a particularly boring conference and after finishing off the Mentos we sketched the idea for Conference Bay on a napkin. Basically, we borrowed the Priceline model where people can name the price they’re willing to pay for something.” (more…)
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