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Digital government needs a Plan O: Plan Offline
It’s not very difficult, taking down a website or a server. „We don’t know who’s responsible for the attack on the Dutch government’s websites or how they did it, but it wasn’t necessarily a group of professional hackers. It’s not uncommon that some 16 year old learns in IT class that sites and networks can…
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Real Solutions for Real Problems
Danny Mekić (27) is a jurist, an internet expert and a businessman. He founded the strategic consultancy firm NewTeam and was declared ‘most successful young entrepreneur’ in 2009. He’s a man of many talents who is in love both with startups and with the establishment. Mekić tells us his contrarian views on the digital world. For example: our usage of…
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Instagram is growing under Facebook’s wing, gaining more users than Twitter
The camera is laughing at the bird: Instagram has outgrown Twitter. The snapshot and video sharing platform has 300 million users per month, whereas the 140 character phenomenon is used by 284 million people every month. A picture says more than 140 characters. That’s what you might conclude looking at Twitter and Instagram’s latest numbers.…
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Make your dreams a reality
When he was very little, technology expert and most successful young entrepreneur of 2009 Danny Mekić wanted to become a fireman or a policeman. Another one of his options was being a paramedic. “But things went very differently. When I was fifteen, I traded my childhood dreams for entrepreneurship. Even in high school – where…
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‘Facebook lowers our resistance by taking small steps’
The important question isn’t what Facebook is changing with their new terms of use, taking effect on January the 1st; the question is: where does it stop? Internet expert Danny Mekić doesn’t doubt for a moment that Facebook has a plan, and that they aren’t nearly done with it yet. Facebook recently presented its new…
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Farmers could solve many of their problems and challenges if they just shared knowledge globally
Farmers might think they know more about what goes on inside their fence line than anyone else. But there may be a day when a number cruncher on the other side of the world can predict a farm’s performance just as well as the farmer, if not better. At least that’s the scenario that could…