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Proximity (one comment)
Posted on 28 February 2010 in Work and Proximity
Chances are you already found it out through Twitter or Facebook, but things aren't official until they've been blogged about, right? As of tomorrow morning, I'll be working for Proximity BBDO as a Digital Strategic Expert.There's not too much I can tell you about that just yet, except for the fact that I'm very much looking forward to it!
The new Pixelpanic.be is up (three comments)
Posted on 25 January 2010 in Pixelpanic and Work
You may have noticed I recently redesigned and relaunched Pixelpanic.be. A few people asked me whether I decided to stop the job hunt and chose to go freelance full-time. I'm not. In fact, the job hunt is going pretty well and I hope to take a decision somewhere next week. I did however want to change the Pixelpanic site (I've been planning to .. read more
Daily StartupTriplets via Twitter
Posted on 17 January 2010 in Twitter, Work and Tip
Now this is pretty cool: startup advice in exactly three words. There's a list of 50 tips for you to read at onstartups.com (and a whole lot more in the comments section). While it's interesting to read through the entire list, it's probably hard to remember (and implement) them all at once. Wouldn't it be great to focus on one single tip every .. read more
Switching jobs
Posted on 23 December 2009 in Job, Work and Nocus
As you may have read on Twitter already, I decided to leave my job at NOCUS for something new. I felt that the last few months, I was missing the challenge in what I was doing. I want to find out about things, fantasize about solutions and scenarios, then bring them to reality. Somehow I ended up spending too much time doing the less exciting pa .. read more
Three weeks off: the results
Posted on 17 August 2009 in Vacation, Work and Project
I just switched off my Out of office reply, officially marking the end of my holidays. To make sure I wasn't going to waste those three weeks watching TV or playing FarmVille, I created a public to do list and posted it to this blog. Here's the final results: spend some time hiking in the Mala Fatra and High Tatras => That was really the ea .. read more
Three weeks off
Posted on 24 July 2009 in Vacation, Work, Monorail and Project
I'll be Out of office for the next three weeks and I am so very much looking forward to it. As it's been a while since last time, my calendar and to do list are already full in advance. Not complaining though, as it's all looking pretty exciting. So here's what I'm planning to do: spend some time hiking in the Mala Fatra and High Tatras .. read more
Sneak peek (six comments)
Posted on 7 July 2009 in Video, Monorail and Work
Here's a very first post on a project I just started working on.
Kukoo 1.1
Posted on 20 June 2009 in Dockyard, Kukoo, Nocus and Work
We launched Kukoo 1.1 last Thursday, code named The One That Actually Works The Way We Wanted. The initial release (submitted as part of the INCA contest) did work, but as we had to move rather quickly (built in 4 days only) we had to leave a number of features out that we originally wanted to integrate. This 1.1 release brings them all. And ev .. read more
Leaders and losers (two comments)
Posted on 10 June 2009 in Video, Work and Dockyard
If you're following me on Twitter, you probably know that I'm a huge Seth Godin fan. I just love to read his thought provoking ideas, urging to look at things differently. Take the video below for example. I quickly saw the first ten seconds yesterday after I found it on Twitter. Seth apparently watched the entire clip and wrote a post on Guy #3 .. read more
The Obarometer effect
Posted on 12 May 2009 in Nocus, Work and Twitter
Now this is rather cool. We launched a social media mashup for De Standaard this morning. It's called Obarometer and basically measures political activity on a number of popular social media. One of our interns spent a few hours trying to list all blogging and twittering politicians, but when I was just doing a Twitter search for obarometer, I f .. read more
Announcing Kukoo (two comments)
Posted on 28 April 2009 in Dockyard, Kukoo, Nocus and Work
Last night we launched Kukoo, a brand new webapp as part of the INCA 09 applications contest. While we only spent 4 days (and nights) designing and developing the app, I'm pretty satisfied with the result of this first release. We've got quite some ideas on how to let this evolve into version two, but the cool thing really is that you can alread .. read more
URL shorteners (one comment)
Posted on 6 April 2009 in Project, Ttrack and Work
There's a whole lot of talking about URL shorteners the last few days. While some people (not the least) argue that they suck, others think they're pretty cool (at least they're prepared to invest a whole lot of money in them).As you probably already know, we're building a URL shortener ourselves. Well, we're using the short URL as a way to lear .. read more
Westvleteren (two comments)
Posted on 14 March 2009 in Domain, Url and Work
I just traded a box of Westvleteren for a very cool .com domain name I wanted for an app I'm currently working on. While I could have chosen for a *app.com or get*.com as an alternative, the *.com in this case was pretty important. I was happy to learn the former owner was a big fan of Belgian trappist and wanted to trade it for some exclusive .. read more
Ttrack: hold on a little longer please
Posted on 15 February 2009 in Ttrack, Twitter and Work
Some of you may be wondering what happened to Ttrack, the app I announced at Barcamp Ghent. While I estimated a private beta somewhere around the end of December back then, we haven't been able to finish the alpha version yet. Both a number of other projects and extra features forced us to change the planning. Apart from some nasty bugs, things .. read more
MetaTale bashing (13 comments)
Posted on 3 February 2009 in Metatale and Work
So yes, I guess we were a little over-ambitious when we first launched MetaTale. We felt like we were close to something ready to market, but things turned out to be a little bit more difficult. That's alright really, and we continued working and improving (and investing our very own money). Surely not as fast as we wanted, but we all have multi .. read more
Realtime Railtime info (three comments)
Posted on 1 February 2009 in Nocus, Dockyard, Iphone, Work and Mobile
Some three months ago my friend and former schoolmate Piet joined the NOCUS team as a developer. Soon after, we started an internal project called Dockyard, which basically comprises all non client related projects and other (techy) experiments. Today we're exactly in the middle of our official two-month evaluation period, working on both web- .. read more
Hire me: pick your price (three comments)
Posted on 22 January 2009 in Pixelpanic and Work
I love my Pixelpanic sidejob and always try to make it as less a job as possible. One of the things I probably hate most about it are the price quotes. I tried to create these fixed price packages so I could stop worrying about them, but as pretty much every web project is an entirely different thing, that didn't really work either. So here's a .. read more
Here's what happened to @footchy (two comments)
Posted on 20 January 2009 in Footchy, Twitter and Work
Some two weeks ago Tom and Koen (with whom I've previously worked on Twistory and Twiddict) asked me if I was interested in developing a new Twitter app. While one of my new year's resolutions was to stop doing Twitter apps and focus on other domains, I got involved anyway as the app really was something I was looking for myself: a Twitter fr .. read more
Poll: how do you use email? (ten comments)
Posted on 28 December 2008 in Email, Poll, Project and Work
I'm currently working on something you could describe as an email productivity tool. While talking to people, I noticed pretty much everyone is using email in a different way. Some of them forward all their messages to just one inbox, while others are using a varying number of separate addresses. Some people told me they're checking their mailbo .. read more
Just launched: WeCards Facebook app
Posted on 22 December 2008 in Facebook, Wecards, Nocus, Project and Work
We just launched WeCards, a social ecards app, on Facebook. The application description sums it up nicely: "WeCards allows you to create ever growing, social ecards. Basically, use WeCards to send an ecard to one of your Facebook friends and watch it grow while it's being forwarded to other friends." I'm pretty proud of the result: a straight-f .. read more
Ready for what's next
Posted on 14 August 2008 in Vacation and Work
It's been quiet here for the last few weeks, as we spent some lovely time in Southern Switzerland (on a political sidenote: living in a country dealing with similar issues as we Belgians do, the Swiss however appear to be quite proud of their nation - we might actually learn something there).Anyway, it took me a day or two to slow down - I had t .. read more
Sometimes work feels a lot like this
Posted on 18 July 2008 in Work and Video
Meet my new desk (one comment)
Posted on 23 March 2008 in Nocus, Work and Office
So we moved to Kaai16 on Friday and I'm pretty thrilled about it. The photo above shows what my brand new desk looks like (here's the previous one). While the office itself is impressive already, the view is plain awesome. Can't wait to go back to work ;-)
Career move
Posted on 19 March 2008 in Nocus, Work and Office
Well, sort of ... I had a lot of fun recording the nocus.tv movie clips last week, but I'm not planning to become a fulltime actor any time soon. If you haven't seen the clips yet or don't know what they're all about: we're moving into our new office on Friday and nocus.tv is part of how we're telling our clients and partners not to send letters .. read more
Website update (two comments)
Posted on 9 January 2008 in Work, Twitter, Interactive, Mashup and Spam
When I originally launched this website a little less then a year ago (this is what it looked like back then), it was meant to get me nice job after school. That worked out fine and I turned the site into a personal blog. I never changed the text in the upper right corner of the homepage though, basically because I couldn't think of anything use .. read more
Three months (three comments)
Posted on 8 December 2007 in Nocus and Work
It's early December now, which means I've been working at Nocus for a little over three months now. While it took me quite some time to finally decide where I'd start to work, I haven't regretted my decision once. I worked on a number of really diverse projects, learned quite a few things I totally didn't know about and the colleagues are great! .. read more
We're moving into an awesome new office building
Posted on 26 November 2007 in Nocus, Work and Office
After weeks of mistery we finally got to visit the new Nocus office building this morning. New perhaps isn't the appropriate word as it is in fact a restored factory, but boy does it look great! Unfortunately I can't show you any photos yet, as they still have some papers to sign. I suppose that won't take weeks, so check my Flickr shortly ;-). .. read more
Major MetaTale update (one comment)
Posted on 16 November 2007 in Metatale and Work
We're currently finishing the last bits and pieces for a major MetaTale update next week. I'm pretty excited about the upcoming version: we've been working hard on the algorithm and the user interface and they have both improved dramatically. The last few weeks we've been running some real-life scenarios in order to tune the algorithm. It was ki .. read more
Nocus is hiring
Posted on 9 November 2007 in Nocus, Work and Vacancy
Just letting you know that - apart from a creative designer - we're looking for an extra web developer to join the NOCUS team (either as an employee or freelancer). You should be strong at PHP, XHTML, XML, SQL, web services and javascript/ajax and passionate about the internet. We'd love to work with someone who - aside from the obvious technica .. read more
Brand new
Posted on 3 September 2007 in Nocus, Work, Mac and Apple
Today was officially my first day at work. No deadlines to cope with and starting off slowly, I could spend quite some time getting used to my brand new MacBook, Cinema Display, Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard. I must say it's pretty nice to work in a place that looks mac-ier than the average Apple Store.By the way, there's no need to be scepti .. read more
I'm not a designer (four comments)
Posted on 22 August 2007 in Design, Web Design and Work
I feel pretty honored to be part of this list - even though I didn't make it to the crème de la crème toplist - among people I deeply admire (their portfolios that is, as I don't know any of them personally). I don't consider myself a designer: real (web) designers (in my opinion) are able to deliver aesthetically pleasing, usable and contempora .. read more
MetaTale is live (five comments)
Posted on 16 April 2007 in Metatale, Work and Interview
I'm finally able to write about an exciting new project I've been working on the last couple of months, as it went live this morning. It's called MetaTale and can be described as a social media analysis tool. Different from the Technorati kind of buzz-approach, we're measuring "influence". That means you can actually use MetaTale before you star .. read more

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