Monthly archive for September 2008
BACK FROM A GREAT PICNIC IN AMSTERDAM
Antoine and I just came back from the PICNIC conference that took place last week in Amsterdam. It was a truly amazing experience. PICNIC is much more than just a conference, it feels more like a big festival, with dozens of presentations, hundreds of workshops and a lot of other interesting things going on at [...]
WELCOME ON BOARD, CHRISTIAN!
We’re very thrilled to announce that the Sandbox team has just become bigger: Christian Busch has recently joined us. Christian, who is originally from Germany, has studied more or less everywhere in the world (Mexico, Russia, you name it) and has now received his Masters degree from the London School of Economics. At Sandbox, he [...]
GOING TO PICNIC IN AMSTERDAM
Antoine and me will be at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam this week. We’ll be in town from Tuesday to Saturday. If you’re at Picnic as well (or just happen to be in Amsterdam) and would like to meet up, just drop us a line. See you there!
DOING GOOD WHILE SEARCHING
One of the reasons we I keep being fascinated by the internet and all the innovation happening online is that certain things suddenly become very simple and easy to do. A perfect example is Afroo.org, a website launched by five students from Germany, including our very good friend Hans Raffauf.
Afroo.org allows you to to your [...]
THE WEB-ENHANCED MUESLI FROM GERMANY
Selling Muesli (the german word for cereals) doesn’t sound like the most exciting job in the world, right? But actually, it can be. At least when you’re doing it over the internet, in Web 2.0-style. And this is exactly what Hubertus (27), Philipp (28) and Max (26), three friends who studied together in the german [...]
INTERNET ADDICTION?
Do you also have this strange feeling of emptiness and anxiety when your computer is broken for two days or your blackberry runs out of battery for 30 minutes? Then maybe you’re as addicted to your computer, your iPhone, your Facebook account and your 123 email-accounts as I am. Patrick and I were at the [...]
