Month: November 2011

  • Facebook has no exit

    Facebook has no exit

    Facebook is a burgeoning public utility service, according to Danny Mekic’. If it doesn’t want to be subjected to governmental meddling, it will have to start primarily catering to its users rather than its advertisers. Tell me if this sounds familiar: Where were you last night? Who else was there with you? This photo was…

  • No downloading, no Spotify, no innovation

    No downloading, no Spotify, no innovation

    Music revenue is on the rise exactly because of the internet Record labels are abandoning legal music downloading service Spotify. The Dutch government wants to make it a punishable offence to download from anywhere else. This works counter-productively. The previous weekend, 234 record labels announced they would no longer be offering their artists’ music on…

  • To IT or not to IT?

    To IT or not to IT?

    On new responsibilities for employees in that most important area of business In 1999, when I took up volunteer work at internet service provider Het Net, I literally saw a whole new world: the world of the internet, and modern communications networks in general, capable of connecting people physically – just watch the cables bursting…

  • “What it says on my business card? That depends on which one you mean.”

    “What it says on my business card? That depends on which one you mean.”

    It’s not easy to arrange an appointment with Danny Mekić (1987). Not that he doesn’t want to see you; on the contrary, because he has the energy of ten people. But his agenda is just always packed and that’s why he has to choose carefully. This Amsterdam entrepreneur works among other things as a corporate…