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  • Erik van Mastrigt
  • Url: http://www.erikvanmastrigt.nl
  • Posts: 6
  • About the user: Received my BA degree Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam in summer 2011. Took part in the MediaLAB Amsterdam and together with three other students, we realized the first augmented reality exhibition in the Netherlands, commissioned by the Stedelijk Museum. Worked for MKB-Nederland on the question whether they should extent their political lobbying by using new media. Besides studying I spend time on training/coaching an Under 17s football team and my part time job as a taxi driver at a reliable company :) I like mobile devices, gadgets, politics, photography, history, human behavior, Prague, Scrooge McDuck and coffee.

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Interview with Hein Wils: Stedelijk Museum and ARtours

Erik van Mastrigt | 31 October 2011, 9:00 pm | tags: , , ,

In January 2010 the Stedelijk Museum’s ARtours project started. Hein Wils (43) leads this augmented reality project and is also involved in everything that works with mobility. The project will end by March 2012, but he remains employed as mobility expert. In the last years, the Stedelijk Museum has gained much expertise on mobile concepts combined with exhibiting…

The Limitations of Protocol

Erik van Mastrigt | 31 October 2011, 3:11 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Internet is often praised for allowing people to speak up and publish freely, rather than opinions are suppressed by higher powers. On the one hand, everyone has the ability to start a blog and publish whatever they like. On the other hand, not all publishing platforms are that free as some think internet is. Every user has to agree with…

App Review: Flitsers.mobi

Erik van Mastrigt | 08 October 2011, 1:17 pm | tags: , ,

Are you tired of all those fines in your mailbox because your speed was too high? Are you again surprised by another sneaky hidden speed camera? Those times could belong to the past since the app Flitsers.mobi released in August this year.

Since January 2004, it is forbidden using a radar detector on any motor vehicle in The Netherlands. Radar…

The Administrator

Erik van Mastrigt | 05 October 2011, 11:40 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

The administrator is the boss. He is the ruler of his community. He has the power to alter his site, remove content or ban specific users. Basically one could consider him as the autocrat, the despot of the community. Internet, or more specific Web 2.0 applications, allows each user to create their own digital empire and being the autocratic ruler.…

Book review: Peter Olsthoorn – De macht van Google

Erik van Mastrigt | 17 September 2011, 5:23 pm | tags: , ,

What does Google know from us? Since search engines are able to track the user’s search queries, personal information can be gathered in order to improve the engine’s accuracy and provide better results. In De macht van Google (The power of Google), Peter Olsthoorn analyses the pros and cons of Google’s increasing influence on the internet.

Since the foundation in…

The virtuality debate

Erik van Mastrigt | 15 September 2011, 11:05 am | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Media mention the term frequently: virtual. Think of virtual worlds (Second Life), gaming environments (World of Warcraft) or simply social network sites (Facebook). Those are places that don’t exist in a physical, touchable form, except from the hosting servers. But how virtual are those virtual places?

I came up with this question while writing my BA thesis on an augmented…