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Social Web monitoring for TomTom

Karlijn — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:11:45 +0000

Every minute, 24/7, worldwide, someone blogs, tweets or comments about TomTom. They asked us to get insights from that fire hose.

We helped TomTom to setup a team with the right tools (more about that later). Now, the team is following trends and topics, ready to engage the social web. Work in progress.

Help us launch two brands

stefan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:13:30 +0000

The next 6 months, we will launch two new services for the global market: Zapaday and Safeberg. We are looking for an experienced communication and PR professional to plan and execute a successful media and community launch for these brands. Look in our jobs section.

True

Karlijn — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:14:07 +0000

It is true. We do stuff with Sharepoint, once in a while. This time we helped create an intranet for a subsidiary of an international banking group. Results: accessible product information + accessible task related information and tools + clear content ownership. With Proof.nl.

Preview Hitsplitter

stefan — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:35:13 +0000

In September we will introduce Hitsplitter, a research tool for linguists, marketers, etymologists, journalists, brand watchers, cybergeographists and other curious folks. That includes ourselves.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the number of results Google comes up with? Do you ever compare a couple of similar searches on Google? Hitsplitter shows what’s where on the web. Go try, split some hits!

Stories: Liberation

sjoerd — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:30:36 +0000

Have a story to tell? The Dutch National Archives and NRC Handelsblad are on a mission to preserve the (oral) history of the liberation of The Netherlands, 65 years ago. Read and listen to new bits of history every day at the story archive: hetverhalenarchief.nl.

We helped the National Archives plan, design and develop this new version of the site, based on an idea by Wim de Bell and with visual design by Atelier van Gog.

Paper key, ultimate privacy

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:52:14 +0000

Online backup is very practical. But can it offer privacy? Can a doctor backup patient files online? Should you backup your digital life online? With these questions in mind we developed the Offline Private Key Protocol. The protocol requires that the private (decryption) key should be stored away from the ‘source’ computer. As a result, the private key needs to be fairly large to be secure: a 4096 bits RSA key should suffice for at least 30 years.

But 4096 bits is about 800 characters… how would you store that offline for a long time, properly? Safeberg (an ILUMY venture) introduces a machine readable paper key, with a 4k bits key crammed in a giant 2D Datamatrix barcode. The paper key can be stored in a drawer, deposit box or safe. To use the key, a picture taken from a camera or mobile phone will do.

Here’s an interesting discussion re the paper key on Slashdot. We created a video about key length and how we got to printing an RSA key on paper (thanks Menno and Irad). And this video shows how the backup key can be used.

By the way, Safeberg is ultimate security AND ultimate speed AND ultimate ease of use AND affordable AND transparent pricing.

Now, go get your free 5Gigs of storage at Safeberg.

Five centuries of inventions

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:06:10 +0000

So much made in Holland! For the Dutch National Archives we created a website with five centuries of Dutch inventions. Go discover.

We love Omni

sjoerd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:50:51 +0000

Omni is in our office. Damaged, but she (we believe our Omnibot 2000, spawned in 1984, is a she) can blink her eyes following a beat that she plays on her tapedeck. Did you know she can serve drinks?

Now she’s appeared in an ad by Guess. We love it. We love Omni.

MilkOrSugar at MCPC 2009 Helsinki

stefan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:01:32 +0000

We presented MilkOrSugar.com to many at the biennial Mass Customization academic conference MCPC 2009 in Helsinki, this week.

Most of all, our preview of Next Level Shopping (launching October) got people excited. Think comparing sites and visually shopping across sites, before you go to customise.

Word has it we’ll be organising a local conference, MCPC 2010 Amsterdam, following similar local conferences at MIT and in Salzburg. More later.

Chameleon shoes

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:08:25 +0000

Will the outside of your shoes ever change color to follow your mood or environment? Of course, in, eeh, 2012. Black shoes will become green instantly, pulsating. Or you can let your shoe display a movie favorite. That will be 2014.

For PicNic09 we bought a pair of Adidas, hand painted one and projected on the other. To tell the story of MilkOrSugar.com. See more pictures here.