Patrick de Laive

My bike got stolen!

Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

Ok, I live in Amsterdam, but do they really need to steel my bike every 3 months!

Without a bike your nowhere in amsterdam. It is the ultimate way of transportation in Amsterdam.

Two bad things here:

1. Tomorrow someone else will pay 120 euro’s for it, thinking it is a legal 2nd hand bike.

2. I have to walk to work $!#-+&$! I’m halfway now and I think I’ll stop for a coffee.

If only I would have tagged my bike then there was at least a small chance of getting it back.

Tomorrow I’ll go to the shop to buy a legal 2nd hand bike for 120 euro.

Update 1: I got this bike from my parents, about a months ago, so please don’t tell them it got stolen!*

* Conventional blog wisdom states that 90% of all blogs are read only by the blogger and his/her parents

Cool flickr feature

Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

I was using the photo site flickr already a lot for blogging purposes, but now I have installed the email pictures to blog feature on my account. I can make pics with my mobile and send them via flickr email automatically to my blog!

Cool, respect!

Here you see our refrigerator! Ketchup and champagne! Sounds like a combi!

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Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

I’m not, but it is quite funny when you drive to San Francisco and you’re welcomed with this HUGE billboard

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Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

I was at a brainstorm session in The TEN Building (an incubator in Santa Clara). eBay started in this building and at this moment it hosts 47 companies.

I met a nice girl today, named Manisha and I was stunned when she opened up her purse (fendibag). She had 3 mobile phones in them! But actually she has a point there.

1. Private phone

2. Work phone

3. Hotline

Well I know a lot of people having a private and a work phone, but the Hotline is new for me.

There is only one person that haves the hotline number (in Marisha’s case her mother).

Hmmmm.. next to my palm one treo 650, I need to buy a blackberry pearl (WOW! I need to be the first in the Netherlands having one!) and a nokia N92.

They Might Be Giants…

Originally uploaded by themarkpike.

One thing I notice when I’m breading air on US soil is that everybody is trying to compare themselves with someone else (that is not different then in The Netherlands). But the way Americans do it is different. Dutch businesses tempt to look down, in other words, when asked they compare (more in the sense of position) themselves to companies that are behind them. I’m just guessing her, but for instance if you ask Marketingfacts about their competition Marco would probably talk about colleague blogs as Molblog, frankwatching and Frackers (with whom he is in some way or another cooperating as well, but that is a whole different story).

Off topic, Marco is doing a great job with marketingfacts and is by far the most leading and influential blog in the marketingspace.

If you would ask an American company, I’ve noticed the opposite. I’ll give multiple examples. Today I had a meeting with Michael Arrington, and someone asked him about if he’s afraid of competition. First of all he answered (and I agree 100% with him) that he embraced competition, it strengthens the total marked for techmedia and that he would benefit from that. But second of all he positioned TechCrunch as the underdog of Cnet. TechCrunch is at this point 10 times smaller in pageviews per month than Cnet (on the opposite CNET has more than tenfold of people on the payroll). Arrington is looking up! He’s eager to bring this Giant down and when he does he’ll find even a bigger giant! Google was always trying to position itself as the small pitbull who was barking at the giant dinosaur Microsoft (although they’re having a hard time to let me still believe that). But the point I’m trying to make here is that the point of view is different here in the States than in The Netherlands. Here they look up and try to be the underdog, in The Netherlands people or businesses tend to look down and hope to maintain their position as it is.

So I wonder when Marco would say to me that his biggest competitor is Ilse Media!

Note: I didn’t talk to marco about this, it is more as figure of speech. Hope he’ll comment on it.

A short post here straight out of the new Apple Store on 5th Avenue. This is like one big candy shop .

I was looking for a device that could turn my Nano into a voice recorder, but unfortunately they don’t have it here and they even doubt if its available for the Nano

There is a lot to tell, but time is scarce here. So I’ll have to grab my bag, take a cab and get my ass over to Nextfest where we have an appointment with Mr Nextfest (forgot his name, ooops).

All other interesting stuff (ING, Philips, Soho Grand, Marquee) I’ll cover later.

Back in town.

I had a great time in France! Can you imagine a week without a telephone (ok, ok, you cought me sending a text message to my girlfriend on this picture) and more important… Internet.

So although I had a great time, I’m also glad to be back on the office.

I missed a couple of things last week:

1. An appointment with Tim O’Reilly (He was in Brussels and invited Boris and me for a coffee and a chat about The Next Web Conference)

2. A dinner with Marten Mickos
3. My first blogcarnaval

Back in town, back in business

At the moment I’m on a holiday in the South of France. I’m with five friends from university and we’re staying in the house of one of their parents in St. Maxime. The view is really magnificent! (I’ll add pics later on).

There is no internet connection, so I can’t blog much

I’m back in the weekend.

If you’re in the neighbourhood (e.g. St Tropez) drop me an email at patrick at fleck dot com and we might end up having coffee at 55

Its official!

At least if we can state that Google and Yahoo have the authority to say that for a certain query the number 1 position is the most important one.
See for yourself through the YahooGoogle mashup search.

Hey that’s not bad nr.1 out of 2,370,000,000 and 690,000,000 results (respectively from Yahoo and Google).

Congrats Boris!

Hi, and welcome to the first post of 1000 Times 1000!

A short introduction…

1000 Times 1000 is the story about me, Patrick de Laive. I’m a 27 year old Dutch guy and I live in Amsterdam. I write this blog for myself and my mom (as everybody else).I’m an internet entrepreneur and I love the web, its possibilities and the people creating all the cool stuff.I love to read about technology, innovation, and I try to keep track of all new and cool stuff (but it is going so damn fast ).

I love my family, my friends, my girlfriend and everyone interested in me.

Now, I’ve started this blog to give me a place to output some of my thoughts on the business, hopefully sometimes some inside information and well we’ll see…. I just hope I have enough interesting things to say! For now, that’s enough!