Monthly Archives: November 2011

Edial Dekker, CEO of Gidsy: from hacking to collaborative consumption

Bree Tahapary | 04 November 2011, 4:42 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

In yesterday’s class we discussed the development of free software and open source. A major shift has been taking place, albeit in a slow pace, from proprietary software to a more open and free form. This change is described by the likes of Eric S. Raymond in his seminal paper “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”. In it Raymond makes an…


Interview with Lex Slaghuis, organizer of Hack de Overheid

Wouter Timmermans | 03 November 2011, 6:47 pm | 2 comments

What is Hack de Overheid (hack the government)?

Hack de Overheid is an event where hackers, government officials and journalists come together to work with government data. Hack de Overheid thinks that at this moment there are a lot of government bodies who are not working with open data and are missing out on some very good ways to…


Is your boyfriend cheating on you? There’s an app for that too

Wouter Timmermans | 03 November 2011, 3:15 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

With new smart phones and GPS tracking, it’s possible to find and locate the position of other smart phones and the human body that goes with it. But is this legal? Does privacy still exist? Japanese women apparently don’t care about privacy; they just want to know why their boyfriend is late for dinner for the fourth time…


Netexplorateur Observatory. Talking about Crowdmash, VirtuRéalité and Webego…

Aurelie Ghalim | 02 November 2011, 1:15 pm | tags: , , ,

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Tuesday 25th of October I went to see a conference in Brussels of The Netexplorateur Observatory at Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECS). This observatory is formed of sociologists that analyse hundreds of innovation in the area of new media. Every year international experts select the 100 most interesting cases presenting during the annual…


Interview with Arkadiy Kukarkin, developer at the Hype Machine

Clément Adam | 02 November 2011, 11:16 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

How about an introduction: *Scroll down for the interview!

The Hype Machine is a website that keeps track of what music bloggers post on their blogs. A selection of blogs are selected by the makers of the website. The careful selection of the blogs is what makes the quality of the website: official labels, Dj blogs with their own…


Meanwhile in Hungary

Demet Dagdelen | 02 November 2011, 3:02 am | tags: , , , ,

When the new media law for Hungary was passed on 21st of December 2010, many people were outraged at how much of a setback it was for press freedom in Hungary. A Facebook page named “One million people for the freedom of the Hungarian press” gained huge attention when it organized its first protest on 14th of January 2011…


On the Nature and Culture of Photography

Martijn Dorresteijn | 02 November 2011, 12:26 am | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

The praxis and technology of photography has seen dramatic transformations over the last century. The most obvious transformations taking place in the last decade of the 20th century, marking the shift from analog to digital photography. Yet another shift is surfacing all over the web, a shift that has been initiated a few years ago with the introduction of the…


Interview with The Find Magazine

Aurelie Ghalim | 01 November 2011, 11:48 pm | tags: , , , ,

The Find Magazine is a global collective of music lovers dedicated to promoting the diffusion of hip hop, jazz, funk, soul, and related genres. We are inspired by the culture of ‘crate digging’ and thus constantly scour the dusty corners of record shops and outskirts of the internet to find the best music for you.

The Find…


Four considerations to Microsoft’s Productivity Future Vision video

Stijnie Thuijs | 01 November 2011, 11:23 pm

Robot butlers, flying cars, invisibility cloaks, super powers, nutrition through pills, teleportation, time travelling; we all know these future predictions from the movies and comic books. Some developments seem plausible, others improbable. They play roles in our daydreams and in fictive stories. Part of them probably won’t be around any time soon, part of them might never be invented by…


Fleet Commander Neusa talks about EVE Online

Andrei Florian | 01 November 2011, 11:14 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

In her 2010 TED speech Jane McGonigal states that on average we invest 3 billion hours weekly playing online games. Also, Nick Yee (2006, 70) estimates that the MMORPG player spends on average 22 hours a week playing the game. Considering that this player has an average of 26, it can be argued that they have…