Naast acteur en presentator is Aston Kutcher sinds kort ook internetondernemer. Bijna vanzelfsprekend adopteert de wereldberoemde toy boy van actrice Demi Moore daarom de laatste technieken. Zoals Qik, een service die het mogelijk maakt live beelden uit te zenden vanaf je mobiele telefoon. Kutcher g...

Op de dag van het heftige Irak-debat, zit ik op een barkruk in Mediacafé De Plantage te wachten op de kroonprins der talkshowhosts. Een paar weken eerder was ik hem ‘tegen het lijf gelopen’ bij de opnames van het TV Moment van het Jaar. Hij stemde in met een interview voor deze studente...

Regisseur Victor Solomon heeft een jaar lang alle scheldwoorden uit alle episodes van de Amerikaanse maffiaserie The Sopranos geknipt, als een soort klusje tussendoor. Even voor de duidelijkheid, het betreft hier 6 seizoenen en 86 afleveringen. Het resultaat is hypnotiserend. Click here to view the ...

This is my last day at The Next Web office, so I guess it’s time for a goodbye post. You know what, after co-editor Boris called me an unfaithful schmuck and a loser, I didn’t even feel like writing this post. But then again, Patrick, Arjen and he dragged me into so many adventures 2.0 l...

One the long awaited features of the new iLife is Faces. iPhoto uses face detection to identify faces of people in your photos and face recognition to match faces that look like the same person. That makes it easy for you to add names to your photos. Put a name to a face in a couple of photos, and i...

The lonely Chinese man who wants to satisfy his sexual needs online, faces a challenge that just got a little bigger. The Chinese government has blocked 244 new porn sites over the last week, reports Chinese news agency Xinhua. In its battle against “vulgar” content, China already made 7...

About a month ago, a nine-year old girl from India became the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. Sadly for her, she got dethroned by the “Mozart of Computers” - an eight-year old boy from Macedonia. His Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski gave him a 15-machine computer l...

Chances are pretty big that you’re 100 percent certified geek - otherwise you wouldn’t be reading a tech blog. Right? That means you might have some problems with members of the other sex. Maybe you can’t even talk to them, or wind up in the dangerous friend zone way too fast. Ther...

While Nicolas Negroponte tries to find an affordable solution for e-learning in developing countries, some educational institutes try to find one for the western world. I know it’s not a Touch, but hell, what a funny pic A class of year 8 students at Shepparton High School in central Victoria ...

If you’re not a professional designer, it might be hard to come up with the right font for the right message. Stuart Robinson wants to make your life easier by offering you a new to explore the popular typefaces on your computer. It’s called Flipping Typical and it’s actually reall...