The short life of Charlie Bumbaki

This video tells the story of a little boy called Charlie Bumbaki.
We follow him from birth, to his first steps, exploring the unknown.
Little does he know about the fate that strikes him.
No infants were harmed during the making of this movie

Twitter: a medium for no-lifers

Twitter: A solution for the no-lifers

 

With the social network ‘Twitter’, you can send text messages called ‘Tweets’ to other users. With these Tweets you can say what you’re up to with a maximum of 140 characters, and you can receive them on the Twitter website (where they will be published on the users page), by IM, SMS, e-mail, or RSS.

As does everyone, I too have my own opinion about Twitter.

I think Twitter is mostly a waste of time. It can be useful to stay connected, and to check out what your friends are up to but you can achieve the same results by just giving them a phone call, or sending them a regular text message. And a lot of the messages sent by Twitter are just not interesting at all! Nobody needs to know when you are going to the supermarket for instance, or going to the store to pick something up. Of course, some people might be interested, but for a big part of the time it is just a waste of time.

And why do you need to have everything on your user page? Every time you send a Tweet it gets displayed on your page – is this really that interesting?

In 2007, there was also a security flaw with Twitter. If people knew the phone number connected to an account, they could send messages if it were sent by the user itself.
And in 2009, accounts were hacked as well to send offensive messages such as sexually explicit ones.

So – security flaws, pointless babble, and profile pages full with uninteresting messages: I think Twitter is for the no-lifers.

Facebook

Facebook

 In my last article, I have told you guys something about the social medium ´Hyves´. Facebook is sort of like it, however, this is an international network.

Facebook was founded in 2004 by a man called Mark Zuckerberg, and he is still currently the manager as well. In 2006, Yahoo offered around 1 billion dollar to buy the social network but their offer was refused by Mark. Nowadays, Facebook is estimated to be worth even a lot more and some companies have a share in it now. Because it is an international network, it has loads of members. Ever since it was founded in 2004, the number of members kept on rising and rising. As of now, it counts more than 300 million members.

The usual also applies here when you want to create a Facebook. Fill in your data like age, gender and name and you are ready to start. Now you can add friends, upload photo’s and create photo albums, write blogs, and you can browse for other users easily.

Keep in touch with your friends, get back into contact with people you haven’t seen for ages, and share your most crazy stories with everyone. Or at least the people you want to share it with of course. On opposite of all the pro’s, there is at one major con: the fact that you can not upload music or video’s to your Facebook.

We can be sure about one thing, social networks like these will experience a bright future, as people are getting more interconnected each day.

Hyves

Hyves

 

Don´t see your friends too often and need to catch up with them? Want to meet new people? Looking for a place to upload your coolest pictures, open for comments?
For this and much more, do not look any further than www.Hyves.nl!

Hyves (named after a ‘hive’, you know, the place where bees hang out) was created in 2004 by 3 people, namely: Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam and Floris Rost van Tonningen.

Unlike facebook, Hyves is not an international social medium. Created by and for Dutch people, it already had over 7 million accounts at the end of 2008.

So what exactly can you do with Hyves?

You can create an account, and establish your own ‘Hyve’. Get started by filling in some information about yourself, such as your age, gender, name, relationship status etc.
Now you can start writing blogs, and creating polls. You can search for people that have a Hyve as well, and add them to your friends list. This friends list can contain up to a thousand people.

Now that you have added some friends, they can comment to your blogs, write you short messages (to which you can of course reply) and they can view the pictures you have uploaded. And if you don’t want people to see your blogs or photo’s, you can just switch this function off. Got to love the fact about the internet that you can remain anonymous so easily, right!

Rubber Johnny

I just converted a movie just to find out I can not upload this movie to my blog!

“The VideoPress upgrade allows you to upload videos from your computer for hosting and playback directly within your blog and its familiar administrative interface. The VideoPress upgrade costs $59.97 per year and per blog, and is available for purchase from the Upgrades panel of your administrative dashboard.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3far9oHZOsI   So here’s the link!

Awesome video to a song by Aphex Twin.

Who am I?

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog!

You might be wondering who I am. Hopefully, in a minute or two this will be more clear.
So here goes…

Hugo Zijlstra, age 18, currently living in the small but wonderful (no wait …. not wonderful … ) Wageningen.
I still live with my mom: I do want to live in Utrecht but I have been too freakin lazy lately with looking for a room. I don’t think I have done anything about it for the last 2 months or so…
Living here is ok, the travelling a bit less though.. but I should not really complain since it is my own dumb fault : )

So what do I do ?
As said before I am rather lazy so I do not have a lot of hobby’s.
I spend almost all my spare time hanging out with friends and newly-met people, talking, watching movies, drinking beers (or wine) and listening to music (breakcore, frenchcore, tekno, psychedelic, triphop, mostly electronic experimental music
In the weekend, I often attend a party with such music
I can not really stand it to be alone for a long time so I am surrounded by friends a huge part of the time.
You could call it doing nothing but I call it doing something…

Anything else? -> Just ask !

I don´t have a lot of pictures of myself but I found a picture of me and Vladimir on the ICM Bar tour!