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  Belgian war minister drunk, messenger blogger shot

  Posted: November 30th, 2008, 9:29am MST

  This is a Belgian TV video about the minister of defence getting drunk in New York City. By Robin Wauters on TechCrunch: When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record There’s a lot of buzz here in the Belgian blogosphere and mainstream media about an incident involving a New York-based blogger, who was fired from her job as a bartender after publishing a post on the bar visit of a Belgian politician. Current Belgian Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem apparently stumbled
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  When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record

  Posted: November 28th, 2008, 11:59am MST

  From TechCrunch: When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record 54 Comments by Robin Wauters on November 28, 2008 There’s a lot of buzz here in the Belgian blogosphere and mainstream media about an incident involving a New York-based blogger, who was fired from her job as a bartender after publishing a post [...]
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  When everyone knows your name - in Belgian

  Posted: November 28th, 2008, 8:54am MST

  Gee - TechCrunch had a post today on When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record. In a way, isn’t that what we’re moving to?  With Google Search Wiki - I could pretty much comment on any url from any search result, and anyone else who wants to see my comments can. Look, this story about a Belgian Diplomat and a New York Based blogger is pretty interesting in the level of “over reaction” that happened - here’s the story, according to TechCrunch: Current Belgian Minister of
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  Il fallait pas balancer, Pieter De Crem

  Posted: November 28th, 2008, 4:53am MST

  UPDATE : l'information a été relayée par Robin Wauters sur TechCrunch... L'Affaire s'internationalise (rires). Le titre, à lui seul, résume bien cette histoire : When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record. Il ya quelques jours, je relayais une information provenant d'un blog d'une jeune femme travaillant dans un bar à New York. La jeune fille a, dans un premier temps, relaté des déclarations qui proviendraient d'un membre du cabinet de Pieter De Crem (CD&V), notre minist
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  Google on Top Yet Again, Lycos Europe Shuts Down, Sling Video Portal, Koornk Rips Off Twitter, Browser Extension Friday Gets Ready for “Cyber Monday” - Free Line 11/28/08

  Posted: November 28th, 2008, 4:50am MST

  Google dominates the world of search yet again. According to a recent Neilsen poll, Google has a whopping 61.2% share of the total market, up 8.1% from the previous year. This mirrors the findings of survey company comScore, which shows the engine having a 63.1% market share. Yahoo, as always, comes in second with a promising 16.9% share, but the number is down from the 28.9% posted last year. Aside from Google, the only engines that have gained users in the past year are AOL Search (4.3%; a 14
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  Facebook To Acquire Twitter… Not

  Posted: November 26th, 2008, 10:05pm MST

  Rumor has it that, until 3 weeks ago, Facebook was negotiating to buy Twitter for $500 million. According to TechCrunch, the $500 million comprised $100 million in cash and $400 million in stock, based on Facebook’s valuation at $15 billion. Negotiations, however, ended 3 weeks ago. Among other things, Twitter had doubts about the value of Facebook’s stock and Facebook had concerns over Twitter’s burn rate and revenue earning potential. Source: Robin Wauters, “Acquisition Dance Between Facebo
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  Facebook To Acquire Twitter… Not

  Posted: November 26th, 2008, 10:05pm MST

  Rumor has it that, until 3 weeks ago, Facebook was negotiating to buy Twitter for $500 million. According to TechCrunch, the $500 million comprised $100 million in cash and $400 million in stock, based on Facebook’s valuation at $15 billion. Negotiations, however, ended 3 weeks ago. Among other things, Twitter had doubts about the value of Facebook’s stock and Facebook had concerns over Twitter’s burn rate and revenue earning potential. Source: Robin Wauters, “Acquisition Dance Between Facebo
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  Zoek naar alle evenementen bij u in de buurt (of elders)

  Posted: November 25th, 2008, 1:01pm MST

  Happenr.com is een nieuwe zoekmachine van Belgische makelij die gespecialiseerd is in evenementen. De site vertelt u op eenvoudig verzoek wat er de komende tijd zoal te doen is in uw omgeving, waar in Europa u zich ook bevindt. Met Happenr.com hoeft u zich in uw vrije tijd geen moment meer te vervelen. Vul gewoon een plaatsnaam en een datum in, en de site weet u onmiddellijk te vertellen welke evenementen er in die periode op de kalender staan. U kunt uw zoekopdracht ook meteen toespitsen op
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  No Facebook/Twitter merger - yet

  Posted: November 24th, 2008, 6:32am MST

  Another scoop over the weekend for Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital, who breaks the news that yes, Facebook and Twitter had been in serious acquisition talks for about a month and no, nothing’s going to come of it (this time around). Swisher provides detailed background to the talks and an analysis of why the deal broke down, saying: “Well, as is usually the case, over price–was $500 million worth of Facebook stock actually worth $500 million?–and the typical concerns about integration and c
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  Kst almal kr rap mn kltn mt uldr gezvr

  Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 1:29pm MST

  Zegt Robin Wauters in een commentaar alhier: Nee ‘t is nog ni zo lang in voegen Oooooh manneken, daar kan ik nu eens zó nijdig van worden! Een volwassen mannemens die van dat ergerlijke taaltje bezigt. Jong volk—het soort dat een jaar of twee geleden Tokio Hotel (Tokio Hotel godbetert! die zijn zo 2006 maat!) goed vond—gebruikt het blijkbaar om op het internet en dergelijke met elkaar te spreken. Het vreemde is dat ze dat blijkbaar als een récht zien, als bewuste rebellie, als een echt p
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  LeapFish Caught Red Handed Spamming TechCrunch

  Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 5:30am MST

  Many internet startups find it privileged to be reviewed by TechCrunch. But even if TechCrunch’s verdict for you is a deadpool, although the author did not tagged that post with “deadpool“, it is still an opportunity for dialog. LeapFish’s employees screwed up so badly that opportunity that TechChrunch team had to ban their IPs from posting comments. Here are the snapshots of some parts of that exchange: Please note that Robin Wauters is the author of the original article on TechCrunch. Her
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  Mollom at TechCrunch Belgium Meeting

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 5:24am MST

  Mollom at TechCrunch Belgium Meeting A couple of weeks ago we presented Mollom at the TechCrunch Belgium Meeting organized by Robin Wauters, our Belgian Michael Arrington (i.e. Robin writes for TechCrunch and is the organizer of the Plugg conference). Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK was invited to cover the event as part of his TechCrunch Euro Tour. He just posted his round-up of the event, titled "Yes, even Belgium has startups", and concluded his Mollom summary with the words: "I think this ha
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  Got my Supernova back

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:43am MST

  Mystery solved: the Nokia Supernova that Imke Dielen found in her mailbox was mine. The personal files on this phone hinted at the city of Mechelen, a recent trip to New York, a love for all things Apple and a certain long-haired dude, a social circle involving, ehm, Belgian Social Media Influentials, and a tendency to run into trouble with the police. This was all part of Nokia's recent Somebody Else's Phone awareness campaign by TheseDays, with a little help from Robin Wauters. Thank you, Rob
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  TechCrunch Euro Tour 08: Yes, even Belgium has startups

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 4:13am MST

  A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour, to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon). I hooked-up with another TechCrunch writer, Robin Wauters, who had kindly arranged a TechCrunch Belgium meetup in Gent. Gent is quickly becoming one of the main places to startup in that country, as it’s a short drive from Brussels (which has the main airport and the excellent Eurostar), but G
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  Silicon Valley Witnesses Ben Behrouzi / LeapFish in Action Spamming Techcrunch

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:40pm MST

  Ben Behrouzi has hit an all time low for himself and his new startup LeapFish in front of Silicon Valley and the world. After Techcrunch declared LeapFish as “another meta search engine no one will ever use” his employees were caught red handed making shill comments praising LeapFish and calling it “genius”. Classic. This puts him on the fast track to destroy yet another brand in addition to his past casualties, ePerks, Brabus Ventures, and iHype. TechCrunch points out the obvious that LeapFis
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  Belgium's Happenr Raises €100K For Event Search. On Hunt For More.

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 9:31am MST

  TechCrunch scribe Robin Wauters gets in touch to flag the launch and funding of a European events site called Happenr. Based in Ghent, Belgium, Happenr says it has raised €50K from Belgian innovation support agency, plus the founders put in €50K. Moreover, they say they are closing a first round of funding to finance expansion beyond their launch phase in Germany, Ireland and Belgium. The site is slow for us, but hey we are in California. It does seem to be chock full of events. Generally, t
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  Boxee Raises $4 Million in First Finance Round

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:09am MST

  Boxee, a home media networking solution provider (for an explanation read these posts by MG Siegler at VentureBeat and Robin Wauters at TechCrunch) has closed its first financing round with $4 million from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Earlier this year, we interviewed CEO Avner Ronen about the company. In the segment, he shows us a demo of the product. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer
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  Belgian Social Media Influentials: here's to the crazy ones

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 1:46am MST

  Bruno Peeters, also known as the Master Of Lists, has compiled a list of Belgian Social Media Influentials and I'm obviously very happy and proud that I'm number one on that list. I was a bit surprised too, because it's the first time I actually win a bloggers' penis size contest. I'm especially pleased with the high scores I got from my peers, so my thanks goes out to them: Robin Wauters, for practically dragging me onto Twitter last year, Bart De Waele, for defending and sometimes even fundin
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  Faceboekforummailinglist awoert

  Posted: November 17th, 2008, 5:27pm MST

  Ik werd uitgenodigd om mee te doen aan een project. Zoiets dat verschillende maanden zal duren, en waar een groep mensen (geen idee hoe groot die groep zal zijn, ik vermoed ergens 10 actieve mensen en 30 of zo in totaal) samen gaan werken in min of meer los verband. Dat ze graag wisten of ik mee wou doen, want dan zouden ze me aan de (gesloten) Facebookgroep toevoegen. Euh… wat? Communiceren via een Facebookgroep, wat krijgen we nu in ‘s hemelsnaam? Wat is er verkeerd met een mailinglijst?
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  Google Rolls Out Ad Planner To All Google Account Holders

  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 10:00pm MST

  Google has opened its research and media measurement tool Google Ad Planner to anyone with a Google account. The tool also sports new features, including support for search queries and geo-targeting (to specific states or metropolitan areas). Google has expanded the demographic audience data to include France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. Users will also be able to choose between three new ranking methods to display results from the sites they’re considering advertising on. A new ‘bubble
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  Google Rolls Out Ad Planner To All Google Account Holders

  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 10:00pm MST

  Google has opened its research and media measurement tool Google Ad Planner to anyone with a Google account. The tool also sports new features, including support for search queries and geo-targeting (to specific states or metropolitan areas). Google has expanded the demographic audience data to include France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. Users will also be able to choose between three new ranking methods to display results from the sites they’re considering advertising on. A new ‘bubble
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  Belgische Girl Geeks

  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 4:29pm MST

  Inmiddels werk ik alweer twee maanden parttime bij het Belgische Trendwolves en begin ik een beetje sjoege te krijgen van de Belgische social media- en blogosphere. De Belgische social media scene is weer een heel andere wereld dan de Nederlandse. Ik vind het ook opvallend hoe weinig crossovers er zijn. Robin Wauters, Smetty en Clo Willaerts komen nog regelmatig in Nederland en rondom het jaarlijkse Plugg gaan er bussen ‘Ollanders naar Brussel, maar dan houdt het toch al snel op. Gisteren b
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  ヨーロッパのイベント最新情報は「Happenr」でチェック

  Posted: November 12th, 2008, 1:32pm MST

  ヨーロッパで何して遊ぼう？　そんな探し物には「Happenr」が便利だ。これはドイツ、アイルランド、ベルギーはじめヨーロッパ大陸主要100都市をカバーするイベント検索エンジンで、サイトは1年間の開発期間を経て先ほどライブになった。ヨーロッパ観光、タウン情報、文化に関するサイトを何千となく探し回って、イベント専用データベースを最新の内容に常時更新している。サイトは英語・ドイツ語・オランダ語の3ヶ国語対応（イベント案内は原語のまま表示）。 サイト運営母体はベルギーにある「Oxynade」という会社だ。ベルギー人エンジニアのHans NissensとNiko Nelissenの2人が創業した（ディスクロージャー：　当ブログのRobin Wauters記者も出資主で、同社のマーケティングのヘッドを務めている）。ファウンダーたちはこのブートストラップのスタートアップに5万ユーロの自己資金を投じ、さらにベルギー政府から奨学金というかたちで5万ユーロの支給を受けた。 イベントのデータベースは世の中に履いて捨てるほどある。Happenrのライバルは、もっと実績と信用とファンドのあるEvent
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  What’s Happening in Europe? Check Out Happenr.

  Posted: November 12th, 2008, 9:31am MST

  If you are looking for something to do in Europe, check out Happenr, an events search engine that covers Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and the top 100 cities across the Continent. The site just launched after a year in development. It scours thousands of European tourism, town, and cultural sites to keep its events database up to date, and is available in English, German, and Dutch (events are displayed in their original languages). The site is operated by a Belgian company called Oxynade found
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  Frontiers of Value Subtraction

  Posted: November 11th, 2008, 8:23am MST

  Terry Heaton calls Keystream’s SmartAds “the dumbest idea I’ve heard in years”. What’s “smart” about SmartAds is that they appear in “blank” spaces in online videos. Those blue skies over the ocean? The wide green fairway of a golf course? The wall beside your sweetheart’s smile? Slap an ad in there. Same idea as billboards by highways, only worse, because it’s rationalized as a “dramatic improvement in user experience”. Robin Wauters at Techcrunch doesn’t like it either, and says so in Keystre
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  Get All The Top Social News In One Place

  Posted: November 11th, 2008, 2:45am MST

  Want to keep track of the most popular news items on the most popular social news / bookmarking websites, as well as the top YouTube videos? Try Newsified. Newsified presents the top content from digg, reddit, metafilter, delicious and YouTube. Newsified allows you to choose a social news source and then scan a short summary (if available) of the of the original source with icon and direct click-through. A great way to get an overview of what’s popular on the Internet across different categor
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  Get All The Top Social News In One Place

  Posted: November 11th, 2008, 2:45am MST

  Want to keep track of the most popular news items on the most popular social news / bookmarking websites, as well as the top YouTube videos? Try Newsified. Newsified presents the top content from digg, reddit, metafilter, delicious and YouTube. Newsified allows you to choose a social news source and then scan a short summary (if available) of the of the original source with icon and direct click-through. A great way to get an overview of what’s popular on the Internet across different categor
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  “Newsified” Social News Aggregator…11.10.08

  Posted: November 10th, 2008, 9:51am MST

  Here is an interesting post [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/10/addicted-to-social-news-get-a-quick-overview-with-newsified/] about a social news aggregator which I might personalize and try out from Robin Wauters of Tech Crunch [http://www.techcrunch.com/]: “Good (domain) name, cute little concept: Newsified is a minimal aggregation project that offers a centralized birds-eye overview of the most popular social news / bookmarking websites, as well as the top YouTube videos. Creator Luke Stev
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  Newsified.Com

  Posted: November 10th, 2008, 8:20am MST

  It’s Monday morning. Ugh. However, while perusing my RSS feeds I came across the following article from TechCrunch that made this Monday morning a little brighter. Good (domain) name, cute little concept: Newsified is a minimal aggregation project that offers a centralized birds-eye overview of the most popular social news / bookmarking websites, as well as the top YouTube videos. Creator Luke Stevens says he got tired of the fact that only about 10% of the latest content makes the front page
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  World of Warcraft Surpasses 11 Million Subscribers

  Posted: November 7th, 2008, 9:03pm MST

  Want an example of a successful membership site? How about Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft. The hugely popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) now has more than 11 million subscribers. “Subscribers” are defined as individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. The 11 million subscriber mark reflects a growth rate of 10
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  TechCrunch isn’t good. Why is it so popular?

  Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 3:16pm MST

  As a blogger, I must admit I sometimes become envious of those bloggers who make 6-figure incomes for content, which in my opinion, is no better than any of the decent blogs which I read but earn much less. Why do we see some blogs, like TechCrunch, rise to such heights whilst other blogs, which definitely had the same potential, fail to? TechCrunch started at roughly the same time as mine, and whilst I doubt my blog even compares to TechCrunch, I do find it amazing how they progressed to such
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  Web APIs Chronicled…11.03.08

  Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 2:20pm MST

  Robin Wauters on TechCrunch [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/03/let-a-thousand-web-apis-blossom/] related today that “ProgrammableWeb has been doing a fantastic job chronicling web app APIs for over three years, and today they reached a milestone, surpassing 1000 APIs tracked…”  I found this part of the post particularly telling even though I am not a tech aficionado: “…here is a rundown of the top 15 sectors or markets with the greatest number of competing API providers. Mapping seems to be t