A couple of weeks ago the ULURU|Beagle nerds united and occupied the ULURU Hotel. After moving some plants and furniture around and hooking up power lines and ethernet throughout the room we were pretty much all set.

Besides facilitating ULURU|Beagle’s daily ICT needs (Internet, e-mail, printing, storage, backup, etc), ULURU|Beagle Online serves as a one-stop-shop desk for the online aspect of all ULURU|Beagle projects. Building, running and maintaining the ULURU|Beagle websites as well as the websites of the various spin-outs, and creating concepts and prototypes for future websites and online platforms. Putting together people with knowledge of the different aspects of web technology, we are able to use and combine each others expertise to fully exploit the possibilities of the Internet.

Came back wednesday from Cologne: tired but satisfied. ULURU|Beagle has designed a (communication) concept on and around events for the Dutch Games Association.

It started on Gamescom Cologne, one of the bigger game events in Europe. In September the whole circus will go to Tokyo. Followed by San Francisco (in March).

In a business area of relatively many closed stands, DGA stood out with an open interactive area as their temporary home base in Cologne. A fine result, taking a tide timeframe and budget into account.

I have to say, the German Culture was more than OK: people muy simpático, hardy breakfasts, great tattoo’s!

Watch our movie below.

Last Friday, Mick Walvisch lectured at the DGA (Dutch Games Association) event in Hilversum to inspire Dutch game developers about the potential of ’social’ and ’serious’ gaming by presenting a vision of future technology and it’s application. ULURU/Beagle and gaming

Watch the video impression of the DGA Event:

Last week, the NL Adobe User Group organized an event themes ‘Mobile Madness’. While you would expect such an event to be entirely focused on Flash Lite development, the Adobe platform for applications on the mobile phones, most of the speakers actually didn’t use Flash Lite for their examples. Like any mobile event nowadays, all the buzz is about the iPhone (in this case it was “the other phone”) and how to duplicate the success and model of Apple.

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I haven’t missed out on a single MoMo Amsterdam up to now. Already 9! The crowd and atmosphere were as usual very vibrant. The Rode Hoed on the Keizersgracht full up to the balcony, with young ‘mobilistas’ in their late 20s and early 30s, blogging on their MacBooks or twittering on their iPhone, amazing how Apple has now completely taken over the creative crowd. Quite a few G1 phones were also spotted, so this is not your average population in terms of market penetration.
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Our blog is now also accessible from your iPhone. Just point your browser to our normal address: http://blog.ulurubeagle.com/ and you will automatically see the iPhone optimized version!

You can read the comments and leave your own comment, search through the archives and e-mail an article you like, all directly from your iPhone.

Yesterday, the internal ULURU Wiki was officially taken in use. The ULURU Wiki is based on the well-known MediaWiki software and is available exclusively on the ULURU office intranet. It works just like Wikipedia and any other wiki: a huge web of articles with no formal structure. The great thing is that every Ulurian can edit and expand the content of the ULURU Wiki. This makes it a very organic and fluid source of information… perfect for ULURU! (more…)

Graduation Galleries (de afstudeer-expositie) van de Design Academy vond negen dagen lang plaats tijdens de Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. Ik was erbij.

Na zes en een half jaar studeren was het dan eindelijk zo ver!

Ik werk al acht maanden en eindelijk stond ik daar mijn afstudeerwerk te presenteren! Dit is een moderne grammofoonspeler waarbij ik mij heb laten inspireren door de oude grammofoonspeler van mijn opa.

Na zijn trouwe dienst bij His Masters Voice kreeg mijn opa het type grammofoonspeler van het bedrijf cadeau. Een prachtig en indrukwekkend apparaat! Meer een muziekinstrument dan een audio-afspeler.

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Vrijdag stond ik tijdens PICNIC 08 op het podium om Mi-i aan het publiek te presenteren. ’s Ochtends waren namelijk de zes finalisten van de Vodafone Mobile Clicks wedstrijd in de gelegenheid hun startup in 15 minuten te presenteren en daarna gedurende 5 minuten de pittige vragen van de jury te beantwoorden.

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“Could life evolve on the Internet?” is the question raised in a recent article on Wired.com.

The answer of course depends on one’s definition of life, which is remarkably narrow for most people: if it doesn’t look like any of the life-forms here on earth, it isn’t really alive.

Smartly sidestepping this discussion, one could ask: “is evolution possible on the Internet?”. To which my answer would be: yes.

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