permanent beta

Creating the Intelligence Room

Over the past few months I’ve been steadily involved with a project that aims to recreate an war/control/intelligence room that you see in movies. The one difference is that the room is ment for decision-makers within bigger companies. Often, urgent en relevant questions go unanswered, but the Intelligence Room helps fixing this. During the Big Improvement Day we showcased our concept and I’ve created a little Django app that matches all attendees based on topics they provided when signing up for the event.

Tinkering with the Meetup API

Meetup.com is a service that I use and have been using to organize events for networks. Even though I like Meetup as a service, there are some thing you just cannot do. For example it’s kind of hard to make use of the internal knowledge or connections that people have within the network itself. And you are limited to Meetup for sending messages to everyone. About a week ago I sat down to explore their API, to see if you could somehow build upon their service.

The curious corner on video

I’ve curated 6 editions of the Curious Corner of the Internet until this day. It started out as an experiment of just showing my saved-for-later links in a presentation. The newsletter essentially was a second format, and I didn’t explore my chances for a talk much further. Until now, during the Week for the Entrepreneur in the Netherlands, that I’d give it another shot. Sadly, it’s in dutch, but here’s the video: