Bas Bisseling

Google Buzz adoption in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is picking up the new Google Buzz social networking tool that was announced last week. Google has linked Buzz to Latitude as well (depending on the privacy settings). This means that people can see where their friends and...

By Bas Bisseling on 02/13/10 6

digitally distributed newspapers

LG Digital has announced that a full A3 sized e-paper that will be introduced in April. The novelty in LG’s latest marvel, is that it makes the physical distribution and the every day hustle of printing millions of newspapers...

By Bas Bisseling on 02/13/10 9

join Hap-poken-ing020 next weekend!

Hi everyone! Hap-poken-ing020 is happening next Saturday (May 9th) at 13:00hr. I hope you all will be there! Still haven’t subscribed yet? please, go to here and sign-up. If you want to bring any friends, but they haven’t got...

By Bas Bisseling on 05/02/09 Comments Off

Peer pressure

“When Napster told the district court that it had developed a technology to block the transfer of 99.4 percent of identified infringing material, the district court told counsel for Napster 99.4 percent was not good enough. Napster had to...

By Bas Bisseling on 04/18/09 5

Concept: using Twitter as a flow regulator

This scenario will illustrate the possibilities of social media like twitter to have a positive and substantial influence on ordinary life. In this case, the “flow regulator tweet” will very efficiently regulate the flow of people waiting in line...

By Bas Bisseling on 04/03/09 3

Join Hap-poken-ing020!

This year, for the first time, the Digital Hippies will initiate a Happening. What is the plan? ‘Hap-poken-ing020’ is set to be a spectacular and spontaneous event that will harmlessly disturb the public domain of Amsterdam’s Dam square. It’s...

By Bas Bisseling on 03/29/09 5

iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, still room for innovation though…

After the introduction of the iPhone, Apple’s main focus is pointed towards its software. But, their is still room for innovation on its hardware. The virtual keyboard as a concept is really innovative and intuitive, but tapping my fingers...

By Bas Bisseling on 03/17/09 Comments Off

IWAGU

IWAGU is pronounced as: ‘I Wag You’ and stands for Identification by Webcam And Gesture Utilization. Not to be confused with ‘I kill you’. Lawrence Lessig mentions in his ‘Code V2’ the ‘architectures of identification’. He (Lessig 2006 p.42)...

By Bas Bisseling on 03/06/09 Comments Off

Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…

I just stumbled upon this definition: “An image (from Latin imago) is an artifact, usually two-dimensional (a picture), that has a similar appearance to some subject, usually a physical object or a person.” (wikipedia) and it triggered this analogy…

By Bas Bisseling on 02/26/09 Comments Off

A decline in P2P-sharing

I just read an article on Tweakers that Ipoque, a German company that sells ‘deep packet inspection-hardware’, has published a study on the distribution of protocol classes. This chart is a representation of their findings.

By Bas Bisseling on 02/20/09 1

Using Twitter for book summaries

Every university- or college student has to deal with books to build a foundation of knowledge within a field of expertise. My learning method is no different than method other students use (I Think). This is my method; the...

By Bas Bisseling on 02/17/09 5

Latent Remixability

In the early days, photography was solely predestined for the photographer. This skilled worker governed both the analogue camera as the development of its negatives. The dawn of the digital age introduced a less labor intensive way to produce...

By Bas Bisseling on 02/09/09 3

Noam Chomsky and the Manufacturing Consent.

Today, I ‘d stumble upon an interesting documentary about about the career and views of linguist and media critic Noam Chomsky. Twan posted a couple of months ago a chunk of this documentary which is called: the...

By Bas Bisseling on 11/07/07 3

Learning from Hardware: rethinking cooperation.

When we scrutinize the structure of data management, we could find a solution in looking at project cooperation as a metaphor. The metaphor I will be using, is data management as project cooperation. One way to establish the preservation...

By Bas Bisseling on 10/18/07 1

XS4ALL, internet access towards disabled people

Currently, I am nosing around in the subject of “Internet Accessibility” (IA in short) in preparation to my master thesis. By IA, I am thinking in two categories: (1) accessibility for people who are experiencing visual- /motorial- or geographical...

By Bas Bisseling on 10/14/07 Comments Off

Stumble upon, one way ticket out of Boredom.

At Tuesdays, I am working for ten hours straight. Long days, especially when I can only entertain myself with a limited selection of websites. Recently, I discovered a website called 'stumbleupon.com' and from that day on, I no...

By Bas Bisseling on 10/09/07 2

Is the databody the next step towards becoming an Übermensch?

Is the Databody the next step on the evolutional stairway towards becoming Nietzsche's Übermensch? The truth is spectacular and men will be more spectacular as a divine Übermensch. But first this present creation, and half-Übermensch, has to have the...

By Bas Bisseling on 10/08/07 3

Wiki-vicissitudes

It could be interesting to find out what will happen when an entry on a Dutch version of Wikipedia is made. I have decided to take a few samples of my bachelor thesis and use them for a...

By Bas Bisseling on 10/05/07 2

Analyse this: http://www.creativecriminal.blogspot.com

I have always been intrigued by the way commercial advertisement comes up with new ideas for positioning boring products or services into the market. Millions of balls bouncing down a street in...

By Bas Bisseling on 09/22/07 Comments Off

Review: Albert-László Barabási’s ‘Linked’

In 2002 Albert-László Barabási wrote: ‘Linked - how everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life’. In numerous links (chapters) Barabási lists all sorts of networks, such as biology, physics,...

By Bas Bisseling on 09/19/07 Comments Off