Proudly presenting zie.nl

Posted: November 11th, 2008 | Filed under: Work | Tags: Video, Work, zie.nl | No Comments »

Zie.nl, the new Dutch video sharing site that I (and our team) have been working on for the last 4 months has just gone live.

We had cake to celebrate.

www.zie.nl

Yes, we realise it’s teal. No, we’re not that keen on it either. Yes, we’ll work on it.

Our new intern has mad skillz

Posted: December 19th, 2007 | Filed under: Weird, Work | | No Comments »

Yush recently joined the team at DAG Media.

Red dwarf

Posted: December 5th, 2007 | Filed under: Work | Tags: amstel, amsterdam, Dag, dwarf, neighbourhood, newspapers, red jacket, tomorrow morning | 2 Comments »

If you’re in the neighbourhood… tomorrow morning, Thursday December 6, I will be handing out DAG newspapers at Amstel Station in Amsterdam between 7 and 9am.

You can’t miss me, I’ll be the dwarf running around in a bright red jacket and matching pants.

Come see our new TV and web video guide

Posted: November 15th, 2007 | Filed under: Television, Work | Tags: beta, bv, collaborative filtering, dag media, dutch word, flash application, live baby, nl team, personal cloud, psst wanna, smart tv, video guide | No Comments »

Psst… wanna see my new website?

Um… that’s ‘our’ new website. DAG Media bv, my employers, launched Zie.nl today.

Zie.nl is a new smart TV and web video guide, which makes use of collaborative filtering. Tips are presented in a flash application, the ‘kijkwolk’ (viewing cloud). Viewers can influence their personal cloud by voting thumbs up or thumbs down on individual programs. The engine tries to predict and present other shows a viewer might want to see, based on their voting and other behaviour on the site as well as some other stuff behind the scenes.

I’ve been part of the Zie.nl team since I started work at DAG Media back in September.

It’s all in Dutch, beta, but it’s live, baby.

(Zie is the Dutch word for ‘see’)

Signs you’ve not made the most of your career

Posted: September 21st, 2007 | Filed under: Work | | No Comments »

• You tell someone you’ve been in this business twelve years and they say ‘Why aren’t you mega rich?’
• You help people with their pc troubles and are told: ‘You could make a living out of that!’
• Twelve years and you’ve never
  owned a USB stick. Never bought one and was never given one as swag.
  Until today when someone passes on their second-hand 512mb.

All wrapped up

Posted: August 24th, 2007 | Filed under: Work | Tags: apologies, boss, drinks, good time, javascript error, longest time, npo, outdoor seating, sunshine, teamleader | No Comments »

Apologies to those of you browsing this site with MSIE. I’ve finally fixed the glaring javascript error that must have plagued you for the longest time. I had some time to waste here on my last day at NPO.

We wrapped things up quite nicely last night with drinks and dinner, enjoying some rare sunshine this summer at the restaurant’s outdoor seating. Boss W. made a lovely speech, reminiscing about the old days. My teamleader bought me a cute nerdy present and we had a really good time. Even if the dimsum starter was a little funny.

So now it’s time for me to relax and try not to stress out too much before joining my new employers on September 10.

Hmm…

Posted: July 19th, 2007 | Filed under: Work | | No Comments »

Live Earth Alert

Posted: June 29th, 2007 | Filed under: Work | | No Comments »

A few minutes in Accounting

Posted: July 11th, 2006 | Filed under: Work | Tags: blood glucose level, blood pressure, boom, bureaucracy, crappy, eye tests, fuse, metformin, thyroid | 3 Comments »

Me + bureaucracy = head go boom. I have the shortest fuse.

Our secretary put her arm around me and gently lead me away from the office…

In slightly better news… my most recent blood and eye tests came out well. Blood pressure OK. Blood glucose level average 6.1. Thyroid operating ok. Consequently I’ve been taken off the crappy Metformin.

Dutch public broadcasting celebrates 10 years online

Posted: May 31st, 2005 | Filed under: Work | Tags: 10 years, dewey, education culture, familiar faces, huey, medy, omroep nl, public broadcasting, science, silicon graphics, state secretary | Comments Off

Medy van der Laan, Harm Bruins Slot, et al

Found myself in the company of at least three of my (ex-)bosses today, from ’95 till now (AVRO, RNW, VARA, Publieke Omroep). Lots of other familiar faces from the early days of public broadcasting online were there as well. Highlight of the afternoon was supposed to be the presentation of a book on 10 years of Omroep.nl to State Secretary (for Education, Culture and Science) Medy van der Laan, but I preferred the showing of ‘Kwik’ (Dutch for Huey, as in Huey, Dewey and Louis). Kwik was the very first server our domain, Omroep.nl, ran on. A flat, blue Silicon Graphics machine that cost about 20,000 Euro. Aw, bless.

Took loads of pictures, only a few of which are presentable.