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

Dec 3, 2008 Posted by Herko

Accessibility mandatory for all Dutch government websites

On Decem­ber 1 2008, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Dutch state, provin­cial, water­board and local gov­ern­ment signed a treaty called the National Exe­cu­tion Pro­gramme elec­tronic pub­lic ser­vice. By doing so, they for­mally com­mit­ted the entire Dutch gov­ern­ment to imple­ment­ing the Dutch Webguide­lines (among other goals). There are inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized... read more

Nov 22, 2008 Posted by Herko

The value of privacy in an interconnected world

One of the blog posts that was on my to-do list was one about the value of pri­vacy in the inter­con­nected world (hence the apt title of this blog post). I thought long and hard about what I wated to write and research to con­vince you that pri­vacy is under­go­ing a major trans­for­ma­tion at the moment. And then I found Nat Tork­ing­ton’s pre­sen­ta­tion called ‘Web meets World:... read more

Nov 14, 2008 Posted by Herko

Quit the web 2.0/web 3.0 crap already!

Sorry for the strong title of this post, but that’s how I cur­rently feel about the whole web 2.0/web 3.0 hype. Peo­ple who are shout­ing about, say­ing that some­thing is very ‘Web 2.0′ (or worse: web 3.0) make my skin crawl. Worse, it’s spread­ing like a virus, now every­thing needs to be ‘two point oh’. Stop it! You’re all act­ing silly, and you don’t know what you’re... read more

Oct 31, 2008 Posted by Herko

The sense and nonsense of Twitter

You prob­a­bly know about Twit­ter, the so-called microblog­ging net­work. If you haven’t heard about it, don’t worry, you’re not miss­ing some­thing vital –I think. But I’m defi­nately not sure, and that is basi­cally what this post is about. I joined Twit­ter on july 18 2008, so at the writ­ing of this post, I’ve tweeted for 3 months. I joined because I wanted to try out the... read more