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Monthly Archives: July 2011

The path to success for Google+

By Kris | Published: July 24, 2011

On Google+ I stumbled upon an interesting theory by Nova Spivack about how the social media landscape will look like. He argues that Google+ is a very different service from Twitter and Facebook and that the social media landscape is going to divide in different territories. Facebook is for social networking, LinkedIn is for business [...]

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Making good predictions

By Kris | Published: July 23, 2011

In his book What the dog saw: and other adventures, prolific writer and thinker Malcolm Gladwell devotes an entire part to theories, predictions and diagnoses. Predicting something accurately isn’t always easy. Gladwell explains this by touching on the difference between puzzles and mysteries. This idea originates from Gregory Treverton, an authority in the field of [...]

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Facebook Social Engineering

By Kris | Published: July 21, 2011

Yesterday I ran into a very clever and sophisticated attempt to install a virus on my machine. What is more interesting though is that it all happened on Facebook. At random a friend starts talking to you. It goes like this: Hi. how are you? Good, I’m fine, you think by yourself. That’s what you [...]

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Dutch pancakes

By Kris | Published: July 19, 2011

This weekend I went to Nijmegen and happened to try out my very first real Dutch pancake in ‘t Hoogstraatje. The simple guy in me likes to call it a Dutch pizza, as a pancake to me is all about sweetness, sugar and syrup. And in fact, it does taste similar to pizza! Quite remarkable [...]

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