Because its true.

There is increasingly interest in happiness. However articles and books unfortunately make too little correct distinction between happy memories and experiences, which make a big difference. If you want to optimize your happiness, each needs a different approach. Social Economics clearly has much ground to gain here.

Als je ‘privacy is belangrijk’ zegt, hoor je nog te vaak: “hoezo, heb je iets te verbergen dan?”. Op vrijdagmiddag een filmpje ter lering ende vermaeck: het “niks te verbergen”-argument is onvolledig, onjuist en gevaarlijk. Maurice Wesseling, oud-directeur van Bits of Freedom, legt uit waarom het zóó 2004 is. [via]

Climate Change = Culture Change
Art is emotion.
And it is this very emotion which is lacking in the discussion

Dutch sculptor Ap Verheggen places huge sculptures on icebergs, inspired on Arctic culture that is changing because of climate change.

Website: Coolemotion.org
Coolemotion on Facebook | Twitter

“Deze non profit site is opgericht om goede doelen te helpen bij fondsenwerving met verkoopvergoedingen die normaal gesproken naar een tussenpersoon gaan.” Kortom een website waar vergoedingen op verkopen worden gedoneerd aan jouw goede doel.

Website: Gratishelpen.nl
Achtergrond: Frankwatching.com - Gratis helpen door te kopen

With over 36,000 tweets being made per minute, there are loads of conversations about you and your brand taking place on Twitter. To keep up with this data, we are now witnessing the emergence of numerous tools, applications and services which enable you to analyze your twitter account and keep an eye on the competition. Here we look at 10 tools which can be utilized by advanced users for conducting focused research about brands and the tweets related to them.

Read more @ Socialtimes.com

A TAT Cascades powered prototype of the Augmented ID concept. Accurate mobile face detection and recognition using Polar Rose’s FaceLib. Recognizr shows how powerful computer vision and 3D graphics can be used to create fast, precise and aesthetic augmented reality. This prototype runs on Android.

Website: Tat.se [via]
Blog: Mobileuserinterfaces.blogspot.com

While probably not fully scientific and with some slack, food for thought, why this is. For one, it does not show where the war comes from, thus indirect war then seems unrated. Another one, GDP vs peace, GDP vs religion, really that suprising? Ow, define peace…
still food for though.

No conversation about Enterprise 2.0 proceeds very far without coming to the idea of Return on Investment (ROI). Often champions of Enterprise 2.0 within the organization must be able to tell a compelling ROI story to their management before they can gain approval to move forward with their project.

Still, it is possible to affect positive ROI when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. It’s a matter of shaping the tools to the needs of your organization, knowing what you’re trying to achieve before you begin and taking an active approach to adoption. It’s about recognizing adoption not as something that happens, but as something you create.

The considerations that go into creating that adoption are the subject of this paper

Kevin Kelly draws out a long story about techology in general. However, he manages to make a point how to deal with Technology.

StartHub Portret: Twones from erwin blom on Vimeo.

Last week Twones got a visit from StartHub.nl, the website that portrays Dutch technology start-ups. StartHub got an exclusive look behind the scenes and grabbed the atmosphere in our office very well. ‘It’s deadly serious, but it’s also serious fun’. Check out the video (in Dutch) to get an impression of who we are, how our office looks like (sometimes) and to get a sneak preview of our next release. Rock, rock on!

The above cartoon is going around the email circles under the title “18 years of technology.” Since obesity is such a trendy topic, it seemed appropriate to include the cartoon here for our geeky readers. [SmartMobs]

Don’t just shorten your URLs just make them suspicious and frightening: ShadyURL

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Read more:
‘Operation Titstorm’ Hackers Have Declared Cyberwar on Australia

Traditionally, David Agus explains, cancer treatments have had a short-sighted focus on the offending individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to treat and analyze the whole body.

Een compilatie van ons (WWAV) Alpe d’HuZes avontuur in 2009. Opgeven is geen optie!

Geef je nu op voor 2010: www.opgevenisgeenoptie.nl

A Romanian guy having winter fun - until the cops show up and ruin it - Busted! [via]

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Of course via cynical-c.com

[Via Theworldsbestever.com]

Bored of watching the full iPad keynote? No problem! The following video by Neil Curtis sums it up to convenient 180 seconds of all the important words spoken there. I assure you, that no scene is repeated and everything was said on this keynote!

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.