Peter Verkooijen's Activity

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Eventros facilitates offline networking 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  

  Eventros helps people connect at business events. Founder Simon Kirk also does business development for the Universal Record Database.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: LocalBigwig targets global travelers 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  

  LocalBigwig is a new short-term home rental site. According to founder Ray Madronio the service is ‘very different in many critical ways’ from Roomorama.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Get some Sun, Sand Startups 1 month, 2 weeks ago
  

  …tomorrow, Thursday, July 22nd. We are going to attempt to recreate Barcelona beach life at Long Island’s Water Taxi Beach with Sun, Sand & Startups, organizers of the chill startup meetups normally held in Barcelona and our partners in Web2BCN. No presentations. Bring your flip-flops.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: EventNow looking to complete seed round 2 months ago
  

  Alex Kombos presented EventNow at Web2NewYork in May. At the same meetup Erik Lautier presented Ceremoney. Kombos explains the difference.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: isWearing prepping iPhone app 2 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Social fashion startup isWearing lets consumers “buy clothes based on how people look in real life”. Founder Robert Cavezza returns to Gallery Bar after sponsoring drinks at Drinks4Startups Internet Week.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Tickets & Music building API for ticket information 3 months ago
  

  Marcus Smith presented his online ticket aggregation site Tickets & Music at last month’s Web2NewYork.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: SocialWish more direct method of fundraising 3 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Online fundraising engine SocialWish launched in March at VentureBeat’s DEMO Spring 2010. Founders Tanya Strigach and Yan Tsirklin explain how SocialWish is different from Kickstarter.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: ‘KickApps going through hypergrowth’ 3 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Last week at the Streaming Media conference KickApps announced a partnership with Adobe around the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) standard. CEO Alex Blum explains what the OSMF player means to site publishers and talks smack about competitor Ning.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Twistage at Streaming Media 3 months, 4 weeks ago
  

  The Streaming Media East conference is in New York again this week. One of the New York-based companies on the expo floor is Twistage. “New York looks like it’s back on the upswing,” says CTO and co-founder Dave Wegman.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: YHIW targeting the ticket vertical 4 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Real-time matching engine YouHaveIWant positions itself as an intelligent alternative to Craigslist and eBay. Founder Vikash Panda explains how YHIW plans to build up its user base.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Posts coming from outside the front-end … 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Posts coming from outside the front-end posting form will not get a reply button. I think I know what causes this and will try to fix it over the weekend.

• Peter Verkooijen created the blog Media 4 months, 3 weeks ago

• Peter Verkooijen created the blog Media 4 months, 3 weeks ago

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Introducing the Media group channel 4 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  All members of the Media group can post here and comment on posts of other members. Try it!

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: CreateMyChocolate tries US market 4 months, 4 weeks ago
  

  Mass customization is big in Germany, not so much here. Carmen Magar, who launches CreateMyChocolate for the US market, has a theory why.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Green startups gather at Green Spaces 5 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  The second Green is: event takes place Thursday, March 25th, at Green Spaces. Founder Virginia Chu explains.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Chatfe is ‘a little different’ 5 months, 4 weeks ago
  

  Next-generation telephony matching service Chatfe is emerging from beta. Founders Paul Orlando, Ed Chin and Steve Wang have “something” planned on Union Square for next Wednesday, the day after Web2NewYork.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: eFlirtExpert found boyfriend on Twitter 6 months, 2 weeks ago
  

  Laurie Davis turned her early adopter online dating savvy into a business, eFlirtExpert.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Urballoon patented for marketing apps 6 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena talks about his projects Metropoliphone and Urballoon. The architect and interaction designer will present tomorrow at Web2NewYork at Gallery Bar NYC.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Introducing Web2Barcelona 6 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  In collaboration with Sun, Sand and Startups group we have launched our first overseas outpost: Web2BCN. Sun, Sand and Startups is a network of European expat and local entrepreneurs in Barcelona. They have a meetup there Thursday. [...]

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Magnify owes someone a dollar 7 months ago
  

  Things got a little testy in the Q&A of Steve Rosenbaum’s CEO Showcase of Magnify.net at this week’s OnMedia conference.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Last month to enter Hive Awards 8 months ago
  

  Executive director Alan Wolk explains at the Web 2.0 Expo in November what the Hive Awards are all about. The entry deadline is January 31.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: KeyWifi soft launch next Tuesday 9 months ago
  

  Adam Black will introduce his wifi sharing service KeyWifi next Tuesday at Web2NewYork. Others have tried similar services years ago, but Black contends the time is now right: ‘Dot-socialism is the best way of making money in the future.’

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: ooVoo at Web 2.0 Expo 9 months, 1 week ago
  

  Video conferencing service ooVoo was one of the New York-based companies with a booth at last month’s Web 2.0 Expo. CEO Philippe Schwartz answered a few questions.

• Peter Verkooijen wrote a new blog post: Postling streamlines social media mgmt 9 months, 3 weeks ago
  

  Postling is the new startup from the technical team behind Etsy. Co-founder David Lifson walked all the way from midtown to the Javits Center to talk us through the basics and look ahead to this week’s Web 2.0 Expo.