Patrick de Laive

This Saturday we’re organising a small petanque tournament on the museumplein in Amsterdam. It is going to be really fun.

The Next Web PLAY is about people, startups and stupid social sports.
There is still the opportunity to join with a team of 2 persons (5 team spots left).
For more info check: PLAY

In the silent disco!

Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

Wooooooot

Breaking news: jikke en ‘de dijk’ gaan trouwen!

Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

Wie had dat gedacht… De dijk en jikke vertelden net vol vreugde op de parade dat ze in het geheim hebben besloten om in het huwelijks bootje te stappen!

Spectaculair, mooi, ontroerend en vooral heel onverwacht

Petanque finale

Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

Practicing petanque for the next web play event.
This is the final of the practise

Prepare

One beer is no beer

Originally uploaded by Patrick de Laive.

Two beer is half a beer, three beer is a true beer.

This is only one of the wise lines in our repetoire of tonight

It is summer, it is time to PLAY!

The Next Web PLAY is about people, startups and stupid social sports

What are we PLAYing…. Petanque of course!

Who can join?
Startups, Internet companies, twitter freaks. As long as you take Petanque, having fun and networking very serious and have an ‘internet’ heartbeat.
PLAY is an announcement only event, meaning that every team should announce something (can be company related or personal) in max 140 characters -including the #play tag. I don’t have to tell you what we’ll do with it.

PLAY info:
When: August 25th, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Where: Museumplein, Amsterdam
Fee: 0 euros (Including drinks and food)
No-Show fee: 100 euros

The Next Web PLAY Petanque tournament is about fun, drinking, trash talking, networking, pitching.

Can I sponsor it?
At The Next Web we’re always looking for sponsors and yes, we need them. In the PLAY case, we want to give something back to people who love the web, read and/or attend The Next Web, so we’re not looking for Sponsors, but you can become a Supporter. Supporters can be companies or persons and get the following benefits:
- logo placement in the PLAY event network
- We support you to bring company schwag to the PLAY field
- Get a special ‘Thanks’ mentioning by Patrick at the beginning and at the end of the tournament
- Get an automatic protected status during the draw in other words your team is seated a.k.a important (the more you support the higher your rank)
- Get a Twitter update: #play is thanking @….. for its support

Become a supporter as of 150 euros!

Oh don’t forget to dress style Cote d’Azur (or just startup style and wear your company tees)

Are you ready to play? Sign up here

Today I got invitation rights for a small world. The super secretive and high end social network. It is funny that something stupid like this actually made me feel happy for 5 seconds.
This is what they wrote:

“You have been chosen to receive special invitation privileges on ASMALLWORLD. Only a limited number of ASW members have these privileges and we are entrusting you to thoughtfully grow and further improve the ASW community.

The selection process involves many variables including geographic location, prior invitations, your activity, the composition and balance of your network, and completeness of your profile. We use these criteria to ensure that ASW members represent the most relevant, interesting and well-informed community on the Internet. It also ensures that the network is balanced in terms of geography, interests, tastes and perspectives.”

And they close the invitation with:

This right is not permanent and is subject to change at any time.

I heard a story that if you blog about asmallworld, you’ll loose all your rights and they might even delete your account. So I thought I give it a try

Update: Thank you all for your comments. I only invite people whom I’ve met, that is my policy on social networks. Sorry.

Picnic, the new media and entertainment conference in Amsterdam bought The Next Web!

That is some exciting news! Here you can see the evidence

Thursday the ‘Financieele Dagblad’ (Dutch version of Financial Times) wrote an article about venture capital in the web2.0 sphere in the Netherlands. Wakoopa was featured and interviewed for this story. The also made a picture at our office. The question is: What am I doing? You tell me…