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Attorney General going wrong with Google Translate
The Dutch Attorney Geneneral made a huge mistake in a case involving a Russian Suspect. During a case involving a pub-brawl the Russian didn’t turn up, but the Judge decided he wasn’t to blame for this. The translator, who did turn up, couldn’t make sense of the summons that seemed to point out that the [...] -
Multiscope ceases its site-reach measurement service
Market research bureau Multiscope will end Visiscan, its service that measures the reach of Dutch websites. Visiscan has been running for ten years and offered Multiscope’s clients a benchmark in reach, branding and evaluation of the top 1000 websites in the Netherlands. The service was most well known for it’s yearly ranking of the top [...] -
The biggest misconceptions about Social Media
Plain and simple: #1: It’s something online #2: It’s new -
Collecting colourful stickers, online
At school you learned to write of course just making words but, at least here in Holland, also how to write neatly. Just writing sentences in the neatest, most beautiful way you could in a notebook. If you would do that really well, the teacher would give you a colourful sticker in your notebook to [...] -
Again: Google and site perfomance
Nothing new, walk along! Because you should have noticed already that Google announced as early as April this year that they will start ranking your websites based on the site speed as well. If you think you’ve heard this one before: I’ve written about this before on my blog. This means you’re probably already aware [...] -
Email design and links
I can definitely see the advantages of plain text emails. In fact I like these way better than, for example, getting an email written in comic sans. But just as with simply choosing a nice font for your email, or designing a full fledged HTML mailing there might be some things that you want [...] -
I like this
I've decided to experiment with adding the new facebook 'like' button to my articles and a like box to my home page. Here is how it works! -
‘Lifestreaming’: Research on Social Media takes off
There is a new initiative by Harris Interactive where they’re asking you to connect your ‘social’ profiles to an engine that will analyze your actions in Facebook and/or Twitter. Is this the future of research?