Hip, I’m on my Way

by Dennis August 14, 2012

After making some changes to my hair, and off course the way I approach projects, work and most important my family, I’m well on my way to become Hip. What do you think..? Later this week, more news around this! Next stage in Hipsterationizing myself, RayBan sunglasses; moustache instagr.am/p/OSyQSgIgBN/ — Dennis Goedegebuure (@TheNextCorner) August 14, [...]

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How to Build Relationships

by Dennis August 12, 2012

There has been a lot written on how to build relationships with friends in your industry and keep up with your network. I won’t go deep into this too much. I try to keep up with my ever growing network of people I know, and like, through social networks. Twitter & Facebook are my preferred [...]

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Internal Link Spam Gone Rogue

by Dennis August 7, 2012

I’ve written before about the Black Hole SEO with Internal Linking for SEO win. Some of the largest media properties are getting more and more aggressive with automatic linking to internal tag pages or round-ups on a specific subject. Think about the New York Times or the popular technology blog Techcrunch not linking out to the actual [...]

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Focus and Getting Up Early

by Dennis August 6, 2012

For the last 5 weeks, I’ve followed the advice of Peter Shankman, who described why you need to get up early, and how to do it. Ever since my family left for The Netherlands to spend the summer, I had big plans to refocus my life on projects, educating myself and exercise. Peter describes a simple [...]

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Making Some Changes

by Dennis August 5, 2012

Today, I tweeted: Look what I just did…instagr.am/p/N9OmUuogFP/ — Dennis Goedegebuure (@TheNextCorner) August 5, 2012 Yep, I cut off all my hair, well, almost all! WTF I hear you thinking, why would you do that? Radical Moves, for Radical Ideas So, a radical move to start something new. I have been sitting on a number [...]

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Recommended Articles AllThingsD Style

by Dennis August 2, 2012

How to loose some credibility in the technology your site is running on. Clicking on a We recommend link under the article Mayer Brings in First Googler on AllThingsD, brings me to an article from 2006! Really.. You are sending me to an article from 6 years ago! I was intrigued by the title in the link: [...]

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NBC is Screwing Up the Olympics Again

by Dennis July 30, 2012

Two years ago, I was very frustrated with NBC Olympics broadcasting schedule. With the High Speed skating matches as the focus for the Dutch Athletes on the winter Olympics, I was not able to see any of these races, because there were no US athletes winning any medals. Well, maybe one or two. The matches where skaters [...]

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Do You Have a Social Media Will?

by Dennis July 29, 2012

Sunday evening, chilling on the couch with the extra screen on my lap. Twitter humming in the background, while I catch up with email, reading and some of the Olympic events I have not seen yet (yeah for first Gold of The Netherlands!). #BlogChat in full swing, where Darren Rowse posted an interesting Tweet. I [...]

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People Behaving Badly: Dumping Paint

by Dennis July 29, 2012

Here in San Francisco, KRON4, the local TV station has a recurring item: People Behaving Badly with Stanley Roberts. It is a view how people in the city of San Francisco break the law, or just don’t think about the consequences of their actions. All in all, people behaving badly towards the city, the environment [...]

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Olympic Updates Text-Popup from The Guardian make me CLICK

by Dennis July 29, 2012

I’ve been pretty focal about the intext pop-up ads which are keyword targeted. If you are reading an article, especially on financial focussed websites, I’m not particular interested to see advertisements around mortgage; credit cards or investing in the middle of the article. so please stop those in-text keyword targeted pop-up ads! But today I [...]

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