Kasper Souren

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  • Gratisbankrekening.com

    Gratis Bankrekening in Nederland?

    Met Gratisbankrekening.com ben ik bezig om een overzicht te creëren van gratis bankrekeningen, credit cards en andere manieren om veel goedkoper financiële zaken te kunnen regelen. Zoals bijvoorbeeld geld versturen naar het buitenland – of ontvangen van. De Rabobank rekent zich bijvoorbeeld 10€ voor het ontvangen van 1 penny uit Engeland.

    Uiteindelijk hoop ik dat ook Nederlandse banken gewoon gratis betaalrekeningen gaan aanbieden. Het kan wel gewoon in Duitsland en België. En je kunt daar zelfs gebruik van maken als Nederlander.

  • 19 ways to get traction: a short list

    1. Viral marketing
    2. Public Relations
    3. Unconventional PR
    4. Search Engine Marketing
    5. Social and display advertising
    6. Offline advertising
    7. SEO
    8. Content Marketing
    9. Email marketing
    10. Engineering as marketing
    11. Targeting blogs
    12. Business development
    13. Sales
    14. Affiliate programs
    15. Existing platforms
    16. Trade shows
    17. Offline events
    18. Speaking engagements
    19. Community building

    This is the short list. It’s a good way for me to quickly get back to this when I need it. I just have to type kasper.re/19 in a browser tab to get to it.

    If you are building a startup that you want to scale up you probably want to buy the Traction book.

  • Inbox Zero

    Sticking to a #Zeroinbox inbox in Gmail has positively changed my life. My rules:

    1. If you can handle an email now in 2 minutes or less, read it, do it now and archive it.
    2. If you don’t actually want these types of email: unsubscribe, create a filter to not get it in your inbox or spam it.
    3. The TODO label. If you need to act on an email in the near future move it to TODO.
    4. If you need to act on an email at some point undefined move it to TODO/whenever and use Gmail Offline to handle this at some point when you don’t have internet (or bad internet). E.g. on train or plane.

    I can write a lot more about this, but somehow that seems beside the point.

    Still, adding some more notes to help friends get started with this.

    If you are new to this, you probably have 1000s or 10s of thousands of emails in your inbox. Or a bit less if you are using the company email address.

    Here’s how you can start, regardless of what you’re using – as long as you’re using something gmail-y.

    1. Remove all your existing labels and filters. Long live Gmail search and unsubscribe.
    2. Create a TODO label, move all stuff that still needs processing in here
    3. Archive everything else

    If your last name is not Clinton and you are receiving your company in your private email it can help to have a separate TODO/company-name label.

    this is a happy inbox

  • Public Institutions Should Use Free Licenses

    On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 2:14 PM, wrote:
    > I had the chance yesterday to talk with folks at SAWBO. Basically as I
    > understand it, their project is governed by university conditions for
    > funding, which require the proprietary conditions Ben indicated in his
    > email.

    Ok, that’s clear. I hope UIUC will change it’s policies in the future.

    http://creativecommons.org/science is a good pointer. This page is mostly about original research. For educational content the use of free licenses is even more obvious to me. Even if someone else would make money of this content: a. I doubt it could be much. b. it would actually disseminate the information further. c. As long as the share alike clause is used for original content any improvements will be fed back to the commons.

    It’s also interesting that most works created by US government employees are in the public domain. I hope more governments and also public institutions will follow that example – though possibly using CC-BY-SA instead of releasing everything into the public domain.

  • Concretizing beach

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    Concrete structures on a Petrovac beach. I hope the beach will remain accessible as there is a gigantic hotel rising on the right.

  • Testing the WordPress Android app

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    Checking if the WordPress Android app works..

  • Guitar and harmonica!

    Me on guitar and harmonica. My friend Marcus did the rest. It totally reminds me of some Beck stuff.

  • how to be happy tips

    how to be happy tips

    1. Finding meaning and a purpose in life is what brings happiness.
    2. Happy people plan and organise, they have goals and a purpose.
    3. To be happy, we need to enjoy what we have and the job we do.
    4. Live in the moment: Don’t dwell on the past and previous failures.
    5. There is no point in worrying about the future.
    6. You need to actively choose to be happy and think positive.
    7. Surround yourself with positive people and be socially active.
    8. Don’t compare yourself to others – lead your life as if you are writing a book about it.

  • pump.io, identi.ca and twister

    Pump.io is the successor of identi.ca. It’s an open source alternative to twitter.Screen Shot 2014-01-16 at 00.46.55

    About 4k visitors a week. Not bad for a relatively new website, hey?

    Except that identi.ca had at least 40k weekly visitors, possibly even more. And even now it still seems to get ~9k visitors every week.

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    And that’s quite a lot considering that no one can really post anything new on identi.ca. I really wonder why this “upgrade” has not been handled in a smoother way that would have retained existing users. Backwards API compatibility would have meant composer and a couple of other social networking tools would have supported pump.io.