November 16th, 2008 by Jilles
Looking at this picture, I realized I was seeing a visualization of something I’ve been telling people around me: that it seems everyone in my social circle is having a baby. What you are looking at is one page of friends on a local social network in the Netherlands called Hyves.
There are 6 [...]
November 15th, 2008 by Jilles
Moving to a different country gives you more spare time, with which I can play. Just installed PanoLab on my iPhone, and I must say it works great. See the two examples below.
This is the Den Bla Avis building (the company that created http://www.dba.dk) from their parking lot in the marina of Aarhus, Denmark:
These are [...]
November 15th, 2008 by Jilles
I make no presumptions on my blog: I hardly dedicate time and effort to it and just want some place to put some of my thinking on the intertubes. That said, I do know a thing or two about websites so I can’t help myself applying some of the practices I learned on my weblog.
Here [...]
November 9th, 2008 by Jilles
I felt we should just talk to as many customers as possible, and do whatever they say. But that is a bad idea. It confuses the tactic, which is listening, with the strategy, which is learning.
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Exactly! This is quite hard to do, though. What happens when there are multiple people involved in the listening? [...]
November 8th, 2008 by Jilles
Recently found a weblog (”Fractals of Change“) that occasionally talks about the finance world. There are some really great gems. For example, take this article explaining “the physics of money“:
The faster we spend, the more money there is available in the economy. Money we put in our mattresses might as well not exist as far [...]
November 2nd, 2008 by Jilles
Just removed my Plaxo account. Used it for a while, and found it useful now and again. But since for over a year or so they started turning into this social network, and I have plenty of those. I keep getting invites from others that do use it, people commenting on pictures that I upload [...]