Communication

The Social Network

On October 13, I went to see The Social Network, the movie about Facebook and its founders. I already blogged about the movie here, saying I couldn’t wait to see it, so I was very happy that the Association for Internet Marketing (the AIM) invited me to go see the Belgian avant-première.

Webinar Landing Pages

Recently, I followed the Eduvision webinar on Landing Pages.

Mobile Vikings allows you to make free phone calls using wifi

As you can see from the banner on the right, I am a Mobile Viking - and proud to be! Two months ago I transferred my number from Mobistar to Mobile Vikings and ever since I've been calling and sending free text messages for only 15 euro per month. Of course, this is what the average provider is offering you, but with Mobile Vikings I'm surfing the web completely free. No little than 2 (two) Gb are included in the 15 euros!! This matches Mobile Vikings philosophy of providing free mobile internet everywhere.

Facebook, the movie

In 2009, Ben Mezrich wrote a book called 'The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal' and depicted how Facebook's founders invented Facebook and saw their social network become the biggest in the known universe. Mezrich was not unequivocally positive, as can be deducted from the book's title. Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, is said to visit decadent parties and have sex with tons of girls. As you can imagine, this upset certain Californian billionaires...

Now that the book is turned into a movie called 'The Social Network' by David Fincher Zuckerberg and Co. are even more pissed. They are constantly lobbying the movie's producers; but without result. The rumour goes that one scene contains Sean Parker, co-founder of both Napster and Facebook, with in the background some topless teenage girls serving coke to partygoers.

Can't wait to see the movie!

Telenet test breedbandinternet in je auto

Sinds juni voert Telenet tests uit over het gebruik van breedband internet ...in je auto! Dat meldt De Standaard. De mogelijkheden zijn legio.

De technologie is gebaseerd op het 4G netwerk of Long Term Evolution (LTE) netwerk.
Telenet verwacht dat 4G een realiteit is in België tegen 2012.

Summer trends on Social Media in Belgium

According to Alexa, Belgium can be considered rather conservative concerning social media websites. With a second place in its Belgian Top Sites rankings, just behind Google, Facebook is omnipopular in Belgium. According to GoogleAdPlanner some 3.800.000 Belgians visit Facebook regularly.
Youtube is the third most popular website among Belgians. Wikipedia is on spot 8.
Compared to January 2010, with a ranking 13, Belgian Netlog switches places with Blogger that becomes number 12.

Compared to January 2010, Badoo is the top winner, with a gain of 36 places on Alexa's Belgian Top Sites list. Badoo is a UK based international social networking site available in 16 languages (also in Dutch).
Twitter use in Belgium nearly doubled the passed year. The website jumps 26 places and becomes the 21st most popular website among Belgians.
LinkedIn, which is mostly aimed at professionals and business networking jumps 23 places and hits spot 44.
Other winners are blog service WordPress (8 places) and photo sharing service Flickr (5 places).

Big loser is MySpace (that loses 24 places in the Alexa ranking compared to January 2010). Netlog loses 1 place.