Cristiano Betta
About: Blogger, Student, Developer, Photographer, and a general nice guy.
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We don’t know shit unconference
--Last Friday we had an unconference style workshop afternoon at our office (liveblog in Dutch, as was most of the content). Come one come all, and q...
We don’t know shit unconference
--Last Friday we had an unconference style workshop afternoon at our office (liveblog in Dutch, as was most of the content). Come one come all, and q...
Office Workshops
--Next Friday we’re holding an unconference style workshop afternoon in our office (Dutch event description). We’d thought this a nice id...
Office Workshops
--Next Friday we’re holding an unconference style workshop afternoon in our office (Dutch event description). We’d thought this a nice id...
Geekyoto - Fixing the broken world
--Geekyoto Last week I attended Geekyoto in London (and visited some friends). I just had time to typeout my notes of the day with short blurbs on ea...
Geekyoto - Fixing the broken world
--Geekyoto Last week I attended Geekyoto in London (and visited some friends). I just had time to typeout my notes of the day with short blurbs on ea...
About the future of the iPhone
--Image via Wikipedia So, there has been quite a bit of rumours going around about the iPhone 3G and whatever else Steve Jobs might pull out of his ...
About the future of the iPhone
--Image via Wikipedia So, there has been quite a bit of rumours going around about the iPhone 3G and whatever else Steve Jobs might pull out of his ...
Kars Alfrink - Play in the public space
--Kars Alfrink - Play in public space Play in the city ‘the street finds its own uses for things’ -William Gibson Skateboarding started i...
Kars Alfrink - Play in the public space
--Kars Alfrink - Play in public space Play in the city ‘the street finds its own uses for things’ -William Gibson Skateboarding started i...
Jyri Engeström - Nodal Points
--Jyri Engeström - Nodal Points (My notes in parentheses, as always.) How mobility is changing the social web 1. Social objects 2. Social peripheral ...
Jyri Engeström - Nodal Points
--Jyri Engeström - Nodal Points (My notes in parentheses, as always.) How mobility is changing the social web 1. Social objects 2. Social peripheral ...
The Web and Beyond - Adam Greenfield
--Adam Greenfield - The city is here for you to use (Live blogged notes. My notes in parentheses.) North American cities are broken. Web development ...
The Web and Beyond - Adam Greenfield
--Adam Greenfield - The city is here for you to use (Live blogged notes. My notes in parentheses.) North American cities are broken. Web development ...
Social BBQ
--This weekend the Amsterdam Software Social will organize a summer barbecue to socialize and celebrate. Tipit.to and friends are sponsoring the drin...
Social BBQ
--This weekend the Amsterdam Software Social will organize a summer barbecue to socialize and celebrate. Tipit.to and friends are sponsoring the drin...
Cultural Attaché
--This job as cultural attachéfurniture Videnovfurniture Elhovomebelimebeli to Brian Grazer seems like a dream to me. Anyway until I am in the posit...
Cultural Attaché
--This job as cultural attachéfurniture Videnovfurniture Elhovomebelimebeli to Brian Grazer seems like a dream to me. Anyway until I am in the posit...
Cultural Attach??
--This job as cultural attach??furniture Videnovfurniture Elhovomebelimebeli to Brian Grazer seems like a dream to me. Anyway until I am in the posi...
Microsoft’s next move in the Microhoo merger.
--If you aren’t aware of a recent bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo, this article certainly wasn’t meant for you. However, if you have, you m...
Microsoft’s next move in the Microhoo merger.
--If you aren’t aware of a recent bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo, this article certainly wasn’t meant for you. However, if you have, you m...
Microsoft’s next move in the Microhoo merger.
--If you aren’t aware of a recent bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo, this article certainly wasn’t meant for you. However, if you have, you m...
Movie Review: Iron Man
--Originally posted to Cristiano on Tech/Life on May 4th, 2008 So I got to see Iron Man last friday with a load of movie buffs/comic geeks, and even ...
Movie Review: Iron Man
--Originally posted to Cristiano on Tech/Life on May 4th, 2008 So I got to see Iron Man last friday with a load of movie buffs/comic geeks, and even ...
Four Starters is trapped in gitmo
--A week or so ago it was brought to my attention that this weblog Four Starters.com is not reachable by users of the Firefox 3 browser. It seems tha...
Four Starters is trapped in gitmo
--A week or so ago it was brought to my attention that this weblog Four Starters.com is not reachable by users of the Firefox 3 browser. It seems tha...
iProtectU from harm
--I have an idea for a really cool service that I don’t see myself developing anytime soon. Though if there are some funders and mobile hackers...
iProtectU from harm
--I have an idea for a really cool service that I don’t see myself developing anytime soon. Though if there are some funders and mobile hackers...
Trapped like a bug
--What with being busy with work and play I hardly have enough time reading the backlog of New Yorker articles I get referred to via blogs. How peopl...
Trapped like a bug
--What with being busy with work and play I hardly have enough time reading the backlog of New Yorker articles I get referred to via blogs. How peopl...
Cell Phone Development
--Fascinating story about Jan Chipchase, user anthropologists at Nokia in the New York Times. A man with the dream job for for anybody interested in ...
Cell Phone Development
--Fascinating story about Jan Chipchase, user anthropologists at Nokia in the New York Times. A man with the dream job for for anybody interested in ...
Precedent
--Ben Hammersley has opened a separate tumblelog where he posts stuff not suitable for his main line. His first batch of posts is pretty great with a...
Precedent
--Ben Hammersley has opened a separate tumblelog where he posts stuff not suitable for his main line. His first batch of posts is pretty great with a...
Next
--Last week was busy. I was home pretty much only to sleep and lived off train station junk food. Not the best life, but a lot of fun and cool things...
Next
--Last week was busy. I was home pretty much only to sleep and lived off train station junk food. Not the best life, but a lot of fun and cool things...
Tipit.to Pitch Contest for the Next Web
--This week the Next Web conference is taking place in Amsterdam. There’s a contest where startups who want to attend can make a movie pitching...
Tipit.to Pitch Contest for the Next Web
--This week the Next Web conference is taking place in Amsterdam. There’s a contest where startups who want to attend can make a movie pitching...
Zemanta - Content Suggestion for Bloggers
--A while back I met Jurey Chalev of Zemanta.com at SemanticCamp here in London. Zemanta is a really cool tool for content suggestion for blog posts....
Zemanta - Content Suggestion for Bloggers
--A while back I met Jurey Chalev of Zemanta.com at SemanticCamp here in London. Zemanta is a really cool tool for content suggestion for blog posts....
Some starters in real estate
--Since going solo I haven’t really been content with working at home. It’s hard to explain, because working at home costs me 0 minutes o...
Some starters in real estate
--Since going solo I haven’t really been content with working at home. It’s hard to explain, because working at home costs me 0 minutes o...
Life on Mars
--As part of the FourStarters relaunch we decided to broaden what we blog about, so here is a post that really has to be put in a new category to mak...
Life on Mars
--As part of the FourStarters relaunch we decided to broaden what we blog about, so here is a post that really has to be put in a new category to mak...
Plug your startup in Brussels
--Tomorrow I will be getting up at 05:00 and drive to Bruxelles to attend the Plugg startup European Web 2.0 event. Picture by Gertrud K. under a Cr...
Plug your startup in Brussels
--Tomorrow I will be getting up at 05:00 and drive to Bruxelles to attend the Plugg startup European Web 2.0 event. Picture by Gertrud K. under a Cr...
Plug your startup in Brussels
--Tomorrow I will be getting up at 05:00 and drive to Bruxelles to attend the Plugg startup European Web 2.0 event. Picture by Gertrud K. under a Cr...
iPhone app ideas (if you could run your apps in the background)
--While none of the four starters have iPhones just yet (except for Cristiano apparanty), we do have apple notebooks and we are certainly considering...
Blast from the past
--There has been some controversy going on about the prohibitions on background processes for iPhone applications using the SDK. Picture by Alper Th...
Out of the ashes
--You might have noticed that Four Starters have been somewhat quiet of late. Year’s end, various personal responsibilities and a confusion abo...
Out of the ashes
--You might have noticed that Four Starters have been somewhat quiet of late. Year’s end, various personal responsibilities and a confusion abo...
A Few Questions About The iPhone SDK
--I was talking and thinking about the recently released Apple iPhone SDK today, and realized that while I like the major idea of a controlled applic...
New Principles for a New Economy
--Picture by Robert Gaal Yes, I gave a talk with that title at Barcamp Amsterdam III. It sounds somewhet pretentious, but I do think that things are ...
Barcamp Amsterdam III
--Last weekend we had a small barcampLe but de jeux poker. in Amsterdam on the subject of Federating Social Networks, XMPP and other random musings: ...
Internet Creatives Knowledge Day
--This Friday Jeroen Visser organized the knowledge day for the mailing list of Dutch internet creatives in Delft. Various speakers from the creative...
UX Philips
--Yesterday the irregular Amsterdam UX Cocktail Hours (organized by the inimitable Peter) event was hosted by Philips Design. The UX Cocktail Hours a...
Tip the Web with Tipit.to
--Last week we saw the launch of Tipit.to, the Dutch startup by Reinier, Jeroen and Alper. Tipit is a webservice that allows anyone to give a small t...
Bookmarks:
Emma Alvarez Site: 50 Free Photoshop Pattern Sets
4chan: Uh oh, the b-tards got their hands on Google's Chrome comic
Construct Your CSS | Based on Blueprint & jQuery | By Christian Montoya
Crosscut Seattle - About Sarah Palin: an e-mail from Wasilla
25 Font Management Tools Reviewed | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
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Comments
Hey Christiano,
Good to meet you at the FOWA Roadtrip - enjoy the conference!
Hey Cristiano, thanks for the 'fan'! I'm not so secretly looking forward very much to FOWA.