Patrick de Laive

I’ve been asked to write about and review business books on expertlog.nl. Today my first book review was published including a video interview with the author (recorded in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley).

The review also ended on the front page of Sprout as well with a great title:

“Decentrale organisaties zijn onverslaanbaar”

in English: ‘Decentralized organizations are unstoppable’

I’m working on my second book (and interview with the author). If you have suggestions, know an author of a good businessbook, or are the author of one, feel free to leave a comment (or ping me).

I included the video interview here. Check the article at expertlog

Here you can see me fail on the bowling lane

Afterwards a short interview about bowling (Cruijffiaans).

Well, at least for Patrick’s Dating Show.

After my previous post on my new dating concept where I use Facebook flyers to market the concept , the founders of Hyves reminded me via email that it is possible and cheaper (well, that is something to be seen) to put up targeted ads on hyves as well.
And as they really likes the concept they even upgraded my account with some virtual euros so I can have the first 20000 views for zero real euros (still get it? ).

I immediately put up the same add as I did on facebook, targeted at girls between 25 and 30, living in amsterdam. The only difference is that I cannot target the ads to single women, but that is just a minor difference.

This is really getting to be an interesting experiment and I’m getting a little bit nervous as well… The possibility that people I know will see the ad has increased exponentially now that the ad is up on Hyves. At first it was a nice little innocent experiment, but now it is really for real!

So I think it is time to add a tagline to the concept. How about this:

Patrick’s Dating show
Girls from Facebook vs Girls from Hyves

I was having troubles with getting an ad on facebook for my dating show (still having fun with this brainwave ).
I wasn’t the only one, it appears that facebook is only accepting American Creditcards (or at least no Dutch ones). Probably because they cannot verify contact addresses outside of the US.

I know a lot of people who tried to get their ad on Facebook, and they all faces the same problem. Dorothee came up with the idea to use a US credit card and yesterday I was having a meeting with Travis Choma (he’s Canadian) and I asked him if he happened to have a US credit card… Turned out that he did. He put my add on Facebook!!!

And it seems that I’m one of the first one in the Netherlands running an ad (That is so cool!)

I’m paying 5 cents per click with a max of 5 euros a day. Let’s see how this goes.

Lennaert, the lead developer of fleck, did an interview about his project (with Bram and Boris) Twittermail.
It is a pretty nice video interview on nu.nl

Two months ago, the founder of Twitter (Biz Stone) was in Rotterdam and at a dinner at Boris’ parents place he met the Twittermail guys. I happen to have “exclusive” footage

See Twitter vs Twittermail video below.

I will not say that we (the meganova team) are favorite to win the highly valued Blue Bowlr Ball, but this piece of bowl art of Boris shows that we’re up for it.
And this was only the first training session coached by Tony van Wezep!

Fun

Originally uploaded by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten.

This morning the 801 office (Fleck, Wakoopa, Twones, Meganova) went to Knijn to train and scan the venue for the Bowlr event (I know, still a bit early ). We had lots of fun and learned a lot. As always… “het venijn zit ‘m in de staart” in the 10th frame, Sander and I both threw a TURKEY!

Tony van Wezep, our bowlr coach made this picture with boris’ camera

Yesterday I was talking with Floor (girlfriend of Roelant) about online dating. I never did that and I must say…. I’ll probably never will pay 30 euros a month to get a profile on relatieplanet or some other dating site. But I must say that I’m intrigued by the whole concept of online dating.

Personally I think that Social Networks are potentially ideal dating sites. And since facebook released a new advertisement platform today, (even more targeted -and a lot cheaper- then the friendvertising model of Hyves), new possibilities for targeted ads open up. I must say.. Their ad platform totally rocks! As I can target my ads to single women aged between 22 and 36 living in the Netherlands (for only 2 dollar CPM), I thought this is the time to experiment with a new online dating concept. Patrick’s dating show is born

Patrick’s Dating Show – the Concept
I’ve placed an ad on facebook which is shown only to single Dutch women between 22 – 36.
The women who like to go out on a date with me can reply and after a very selective and complicated procedure I’ll pick, up to 3 women to date in Amsterdam.

The whole procedure, including parts of the date will be recorded and put online on this blog and Youtube.

The videos are sponsored by mindz.com
If anybody feels like sponsoring drink or food during the dates or help in any other way… ping me or leave a comment.

To the ladies (if any)… drop me a line

Update: I’m not 100% sure if my ad is on facebook, it rejected my creditcard 2 times, then it looked like it accepted it, but I cannot find it anywhere… Anyone between 22 and 36 (female, Dutch and single) with a facebook account? Let me know if you see it.

Do you want me to specify it further?

There are 109840 Dutchies on facebook
40240 of them are women
11740 of these women are single

hmmm… and what about my age range?

ah! taking THE relationship age rule into account * I see there are 6340 Dutch women single in my range (22 – 36)

And I can advertise on it as well!!!

Wow!! Google, I’m sorry, but switching my personal advertisement budget over to Facebook!!!!!

Today I noticed for the first time that I have more ‘friends’ on facebook than on hyves.
I use facebook for only 4 months now (compared to x years of hyves) and I have 191 friends compared to 172 hyves friends.
I think it has something to do with international friends on facebook. I huge percentage of my facebook connections do not live in the Netherlands.

The world is getting smaller and flatter, people are getting more connected on an international basis, so from that point of view it is not that weird, but still…