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  • Marnick van der Zee
  • Url: http://rushmedianl.blogspot.com/
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: Ever since I was young I could work my way around VCR and install TV's. I started studying Chemistry but quit after I got my Propedeuse. I followed the New Media BA course @ the UvA. My BA thesis was about the content filter of YouTube and their strategy to keep their primary source of entertainment online (copyrighted content) without risking lawsuits. My main interest are new media subjects related to economic circumstances

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Smaller Charities, Bigger Visualizations

Marnick van der Zee | 23 March 2012, 12:00 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

When you walk over the Dam square in Amsterdam, volunteers for various charity organization are scanning the crowd for potential contributors. Using appealing stories to convince the person into making a donation. It’s hard to keep track of the charities accomplishments. The newsletters you receive as a contributor leave everything to the imagination. Why should these organizations start using data…

The Mutual Respect Between Hardware And Software

Marnick van der Zee | 28 October 2011, 6:38 pm | tags: , , , , ,

When computers were invented they were just giant electronic calculators, connected to each other with wires. You had to put the data in manually and then it would give a calculation. If there was anything wrong with the input data, the computer would state an error. One of the key evolutions of the computer was memory increase. The change…

You are the music while the music lasts: a look at record shops online and offline

Marnick van der Zee | 24 October 2011, 10:16 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

The market for music has been collapsing since the up rise of high speed Internet access. Music is an elastic product that suffers under the effect of price and competition. The opportunities for users have changed and lean towards downloading. It’s easier, faster and less expensive then buying it at a store in the centre of most cities. It isn’t…

People who say they sleep like an droid usually don’t have one

Marnick van der Zee | 10 October 2011, 11:55 am | tags: , , ,

The market for mobile phones is changing. Nokia, who has been the market leader for several years, is losing ground. It has become more of a battle between the software and the hardware combinations. The different hardware reacts to the software that your smart phone supplier creates. When you buy a smart phone, you choose it to serve a…

The Facebook Asylum

Marnick van der Zee | 03 October 2011, 12:41 pm | tags: , , , ,

When your browser is starting up, most people visit their social networking site within three choices. The other choices are webmail and the news. It’s hard not to value a SNS as a great communication device but it also shows a different part of people’s behaviour. Adding a friend and browsing through his or her page can give you…

Book review: Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space. By Mark Shepard

Marnick van der Zee | 19 September 2011, 9:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , ,

The book combines technology and architecture in the simple sense that the future of our cities need the urban space to be ubiquitous.  Aware and smart so it will manage the urban space where people are failing to conserve it. The Architectural League of New York has made an exhibit in 2009. The purpose of this exhibit was to make…

Property is no longer theft

Marnick van der Zee | 13 September 2011, 12:00 pm | tags: , , , ,

A patent war is the latest problem that has hit the Internet culture and it’s innovation. There have been a lot of statements and press releases about the subject in the media. Hardware giants like  Apple and Samsung have been battling each other in courts all over the world. The main problem is about the technology involving…