Oct
12
2008
3

Future FIVE (op je mobile)

Update: Heb je een iPhone, installeer dan nu onze Nameo applicatie. De virtuele business card. Met 1 druk op de knop wissel je je contactgegevens uit met iemand anders en staan de gegevens in je iPhone. Magic!

OK, wie heeft nog een oude Nokia?

Future FIVE gaat over de toekomst met de mobiele telefoon. Je gelooft het misschien niet, maar ook jij gaat eraan geloven. Gooi die ouwe Nokia nou maar weg en er gaat een wereld voor je open met nieuwe telefoons zoals de iPhone en de telefoons die binnenkort uitkomen op Android (een mobile operating system van Google). Ook geschikt voor hippe ouders.

1. Gij zult weten waar u bent, waar uw vrienden zijn en of er interessante dingen om u heen gebeuren.
Boris en ik hebben al een maand of 8 een zelfgemaakte applicatie draaien op onze Blackberry (we zijn nu overgestapt naar iPhone). Ik kan zien waar Boris is en hoever hij van mij vandaan is. Onze versie is erg rudimentair, maar het levert leuke, handige, onverwachte en hilarische momenten op. Het verandert de manier van communiceren drastisch. Locatie wordt een algemeen goed. Telco’s hebben jaren geprobeerd om locatie gegevens dmv een SMS achtig betaalsysteem vrij te geven, met de komst van GPS en ongelimiteerde data op je mobiel hebben we Vodafone en KPN niet meer nodig. Locatie is vanaf nu gratis, wat je ermee doet kan wel geld kosten, maar bijv. eenmalig 5 euro ipv 25 cent per keer dat je het gebruikt.
Er is een aantal applicaties in de maak die dit mogelijk gaat maken (in NL bijv. Hyves en nog wat anderen). Mijn voorspelling: 75% van jullie maakt hiervan gebruik binnen 1 jaar en je vraagt je af ‘hoe deden mensen dat toen ze nog geen locatie op hun telefoon hadden”?

2. Gij zult virtuele media in uw reeele wereld zien, neen u hallucineert niet.
Stel je voor: je loopt door de Wolvenstraat naar je favoriete eettent de Brix. Ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet en het is… onzichtbaar. Ok, dat is onbegrijpelijk. Nu pak ik mijn telefoon en kijk ik naar de Brix door de camera functie van de telefoon, nu zie ik ineens allerlei informatie van vrienden (of onbekenden) die voor mij virtueel is achtergelaten op een fysieke plek! Denk aan een review van Kees, die aanraadt om de prosecco van de tap te nemen. Of de foto van Gijs met 4 vrouwen om hem heen in de Brix. Ik zie dat! hoe mooi!
Geloof je het niet? Bekijk de volgende video en zie wat er mogelijk is!

3. Gij zult uw telefoon als universele afstandsbediening gebruiken.
Locale is een nieuw project op de Android telefoons. Het verandert settings in je telefoon op basis van waar je bent. Kom je op kantoor of in de bioscoop, dan gaat je telefoon automatisch op stil. Maar veel interessanter zijn de toepassingen die je er in de toekomst mee zou kunnen doen. Wat dacht je bijvoorbeeld van de wasmachine aanzetten als je thuis komt (of weggaat), koffie zetten 20 minuten nadat je wekker gaat…. ondenkbaar veel mogelijkheden. En het komt er aan.

4. Gij zult mobiel betalen.

Je zit in een café een paar biertjes te drinken, vraagt de rekening en betaalt de rekening in een handomdraai met je telefoon, welke direct gekoppeld is aan je bankrekening. Weg pinpas, chipknip en portemonnee. Geld naar een vriendje overmaken? Je hoeft niet meer te vragen naar het bankrekening nummer, je hebt zijn / haar mobiele nummer al, sterker nog als je het mobiele nummer niet hebt, maar bijv. wel ‘vriendjes’ bent in Hyves, kan je direct geld overmaken naar die personen zonder dat je tel. nummer adres en/of woonplaats weet.
P.S. Heb je nog steeds een nummer dat niemand kan onthouden? Koop dan nu even een mooi nummer (bijv. 06 4200 4200) op marktplaats, gaat je in de toekomst geld schelen :)

5. Gij zult niet gestolen worden.
Wat heb je aan een telefoon die niets doet? Juist, niks. Wil je je telefoon ‘locken’ zodat jij de enige bent die hem kan gebruiken? Dat doe je toch gewoon even met een irisscan, fingerprint of zoals een developer van de iPhone me vertelde “de technologie van de touchscreens is al zo ver dat we aan de afdruk van je oor kunnen zien of jij het bent” (elk oor is uniek). Biowallet is een bedrijf die irisscan en schrift herkenning op je mobiel koppelt aan het gebruik van je telefoon en ‘geheime bestanden’, bijv. creditcard gegevens, sofi nummer, pin etc. Dat is een stuk veiliger dan een nieuw contact aanmaken in je telefoon, deze Pino noemen en in het 06 nummer je pincode ‘verstoppen’ :)

Bonus: Koken, boodschappenlijstjes… een nieuwe experience.
Misschien een wat minder hoogstaande toepassing, maar een vriend van mij (Travis Choma) heeft een kook toepassing gemaakt (en 100k dollar gewonnen bij Google!) die zo tot de verbeelding spreekt dat ik hem als bonus item aan deze FIVE heb toegevoegd.
Je ziet een recept in een korte kookshow wat je wil maken. Je gaat naar de AH met je ready-to-go boodschappenlijst en kookt thuis het gerecht aan de hand van de stap voor stap handleiding. Alles in een lekker vormgegeven applicatie op je telefoon. Handig.

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Oct
09
2006
0

Combining online and offline world

afbeelding-3.pngThursdays October 26 a cool party takes place in Paradiso (Amsterdam). Its called Paraplay and is organized by Paradiso KKEP and Twones. During the party a DJ will play the most popular songs (on average) in the eyes of the crowd! So you mean that you can send in requests to the dj? nothing new here…

No, visitors of paraplay sign up and a small program uploads the most popular songs played on the computer of the visitor in iTunes. So the DJ actually knows the most popular songs on average! Cooool!

I’ve just uploaded my most played songs and I can view if other people are playing the same songs as I do! This is not only a cool way to discover new music, but it also combines this online dicovery of music with a real life party!

Great initiative Diederik!, I’ll be there. Who else?

Written by Patrick de Laive in: people, the industry |
Oct
08
2006
0

From Showcase at The Next Web Conference to Business2.0!


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Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

In my plane back to the Netherlands I bought the Business2.0. And immediately went on to the article about The Next Disruptors. There he was: Tariq Krim!
Wow, Tariq congratulations!
I met Tariq in Amsterdam when he did a Showcase at The Next Web Conference. I chose him, because I loved Netvibes and because it was already one the most compelling European startups of that time (we’re talking about July now!).
I remember we were going out after the conference to a club in Amsterdam (Jimmy Woo) and the next day we were having drinks in a bar when he told me that over the last month multiple companies were interested in buying Netvibes for a substantial amount of money. He turned down the 8 digit offers, because he wanted to make Netvibes a huge company!

Now, merely 3 months later, Netvibes secured 15 million dollars funding from Accel and Index ventures and Tariq makes it into the business2.0 (the cover article!)

Things can move fast in the Web2.0 world! But most of the people are still sleeping….

Last year Showcase, next year Keynote speaker?

Written by Patrick de Laive in: people, the industry |
Oct
05
2006
0

Zing, shaking up the music industry

sirius-sm.jpgThis is the first post of 2 on Zing.

Zing is a Mountain View based start-up, co-founded by a Dutch guy (Arthur van Hoff) with a lot of experience in the tech industry (Arthur –very nice guy btw- was teamleader of the group that invented Java! Founded Marimba and Strangeberry –sold to tivo-).
Zing is a company that makes connected media products in the music scene. They partner with big brands to bring connected media products to the market.

Their first product is the Sirius Stiletto 100 (launched last month), it’s a portable satellite radio with recording capacity (It can store up to 100 hours of tunes in MP3 or WMA format). So? You would probably think, what’s the deal? 1. Who’s listening to satellite radio? 2. What is satellite radio in the first place? 3. And what use does it have anyways to bring it with you when satellite radio doesn’t have any coverage inside? The answer is (before the meeting I couldn’t answer them myself): 1. More and more people are listening to satellite radio (from 3 million subscriptions -14.99 per month- last year to 10 million people this year). 2. Satellite radio enables to listen to the same content wherever you are in the states. Dutch people would think… so, what’s different with normal radio? Well the American radio market is sooo different, if you turn on your radio and drive for 1 mile the station is gone, the frequency of a station differs from place to place! 3. It has a wifi mode as well, so you can switch from satellite to internet in seconds (80% of the satellite content is also available on the web and in America 40% of the households have a wifi connection, and growing fast..).

Howard Stern took a 500 million offer for 5 years to broadcast only on satellite radio! This must be a big market!

In a fast growing market (already 150 million dollar per month, excluding the sales of the devices itself) with Howard stern on their side, you would say Zing has a good chance of becoming successful.

The Sirius stiletto 100 is in stores now (among them Best Buy).

I wish Arthur all the best with Zing.
More to come about Zing. They’ve got a really cool new product coming up!

Written by Patrick de Laive in: people, the industry |
Oct
04
2006
2

Giant VS Underdog


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.

Written by Patrick de Laive in: general, people, the industry |
Oct
03
2006
0

MySQL Karaoke!


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Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

What a great night! We had dinner at Marten Mickos’ place (ceo MySQL). From the first moment we stepped into the house in Los Altos there was a good vibe. Nice drinks, great food, funny conversations and ….. karaoke!

Marten gave his wife Anicka a karaoke-set for Christmas and as he sad “It was the best present I ever gave her! A massive hit!”

So there we were, laughing, karaokeing and having some drinks!

Thanks for having us over Marten. You’re always welcome into my place.

Written by Patrick de Laive in: people, the industry |
Oct
03
2006
5

Ruud Gullit in Silicon Valley?


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Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

Let me introduce you to Ruud. Ruud is the rabbit of Marten Mickos (CEO MySQL) We we’re having dinner with him and his wife told a funny story about their rabbit. Annika (Marten’s wife) is a sports fan and she’s a fan of Ruud Gullit (the dutch soccer player). She wanted to name their rabbit Gullit, but that sounded to much like Gulle (or something like that), which means something strange in Finnish, so they end up with just Ruud.

Wouldn’t Ruud be honored?

P.S. A funny detail was that Ruud Gullit actually plays in the team with Igor (one of the guys), so Ruud will for sure find out :)

Written by Patrick de Laive in: people |
Oct
01
2006
0

inside Nextfest

I’m at Nextfest as we speak (or write). I’m having an appointment with the organizer of the whole thing (Victor Friedberg)!

Nextfest is THE event on future technology! Victor said: “You come to Nextfest not to learn about technology, but to be inspired by what technoplogy can do for you in the future”. The vibe here is very good, its packed with people (already more than 40.000 visitors), but what’s also interesting that the crowd is very diversified, young kids with their parents, grandmas, a lot of couples and all from all over the world (estimations: 20% European, 20% Asian, 59% American).

I made some movies and pics, but no cable to connect my camera to my computer, so I ‘ll upload them later.

Written by Patrick de Laive in: people, the industry |
Sep
29
2006
0

Entrepreneurs entrenous

Yesterday we had a final meeting with the travel group at Boris’ place. Boris and I invited some other friends and entrepreneurs of whom we though could have a laugh together (or possible business). It was a nice get together with all kinds of people. We had delegates from LeCool, twones, Live Solutions, Blueace, Uzy, Fleck, Probaton, eBay, La communidad, mollie, Paylogic, streamedge and more
It was nice and I was half hour late on my date with Carolina :( Sorry baby, x.

Written by Patrick de Laive in: people, the industry |
Sep
14
2006
0

The meeting with Mr Wintzen

EckartToday, Boris and I had a meeting with Eckart Wintzen. He’s a famous entrepreneur in the Netherlands and after he sold several companies he’s helping young entrepreneurs with his network and advice.

He’s a really nice guy and as entrepreneur I respect him a lot.
We told him about Fleck and after a while it became a little bit quiet (the awkward silence when you don’t know if you should say something or if its better to extend the silence and wait untill the other party starts talking). I looked at Mr. Wintzen and he said…

“but, uuuhm, but you’re gonna need a massive serverpark!”

I replied with

“I HOPE so!”

I don’t believe he totally got it though…:)

It might be the generation gap…..

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