Jun 14, 2009 Posted by Herko

Barcamp Webguidelines and web 2.0, june 30th, Amsterdam

On june 30th, the Dutch Min­istry of the Inte­rior and Cin­na­mon Inter­ac­tive host a bar­camp on the Webguide­lines and web 2.0. The Webguide­lines are a set of acces­si­bil­ity guide­lines that are manda­tory for Dutch gov­ern­ment to imple­ment in their web­sites before the end of 2010. The bar­camp aims to bring gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions and web­de­vel­op­ers together... read more

Feb 14, 2009 Posted by Herko

Why I use Twitter

Recently, there has been some buzz about the microblog­ging ser­vice Twit­ter, such as the free news­pa­per De Pers call­ing Twit­ter ‘mind mas­tur­ba­tion’, and there­fore some­thing tossers would use. This inspired an arti­cle on the sub­ject by Floor Drees on the IKKI web­site, which in turn sparked a dis­cus­sion among its vis­i­tors and staff. I am omong those who replied to... read more

Dec 12, 2008 Posted by Herko

W3C news

This week, the W3C announced two inter­est­ing bits of news, news I’d like to share with you. The World Wide Web Con­sor­tium announced yes­ter­day that it has for­mally adopted the next ver­sion of the Web Con­tent Acces­si­bil­ity Guide­lines (WCAG 2.0)  as an offi­cial rec­om­men­da­tio. This is a big step towards eWCAG 2 becom­ing a web stan­dard. The cre­ation of the WCAG 2.0... read more

Dec 11, 2008 Posted by Herko

Open Overheid: Yes We Can!

Vri­jwel direct nadat Barack Obama de pres­i­dentsverkiezin­gen had gewon­nen, is zijn team aan de slag gegaan met de tran­si­tieagenda. Dit is de wijze waarop de zit­tende pres­i­dent de macht over­draagt aan de nieuwe. Obama wordt pas op 20 jan­u­ari ingez­woren, maar hij is al volop bezig. En daar­bij maakt hij gretig gebruik van Internet. Change.gov Cen­traal in de tran­si­tie staat... read more

Dec 7, 2008 Posted by Herko

MobileMe design flaw

I’m an Apple Fan­boy, a switcher and a believer, but now I’ve had a nasty encounter with a flaw in the MobileMe ser­vice that is there by design. I’ve just been told that the engi­neers are aware of the issue and are work­ing to solve it. Basi­cally, it comes down to synch­ing with the cloud. All I want to do is push the cal­en­dar data in the MobileMe cal­en­dar to my omputer at home.... read more