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Kristoffer Lawson, CEO of SCRED, a financial management application, took the time to answer some questions about his likes and dislikes as far as the web is concerned:

Click on the image to see the showcase, it is roughly 6 megs in size.

On a personal note: I tried SCRED and it is a great way of managing expenses in a low-profile way. Give it a try!

Martin Källström from Twingly sat down with me during the conference to provide some insight into the things that Twingly does and how it prevents (or at least: hopes to prevent) spam from taking over the system:

Click on the image to see the showcase, it is roughly 8 megs in size.

Multi-touch is one of the hottest technologies currently available. The technology can be seen in iPhones, iPod Touch devices and the Microsoft Surface computing system … oh, and in the Social Contemporary Center for the Arts Amsteredam

Peter Distol was so kind as to explain how the technology works and also elaborate on the potential uses:

Click on the image to see the showcase, it is roughly 17 megs in size.

And, as an extra treat, here is a short clip showcasing the actual multi-touch technology, dubbed with a very special quote:

Click on the image to see the showcase, it is roughly 2 megs in size.

A few days ago, I was installing the newest version of Windows Messenger to test out some features that my chat client of choice does not currently have and saw this:

At first sight, this may look like an install process gone sour (and in fact, it did take longer than it should have), but what is interesting, is the way Microsoft notifies the user:

Sorry, this is taking a little longer than expected. Please bear with us just a few more minutes.

Simple, yet powerful and even better: they use the same simplistic thinking to describe the various other utilities that are available, summing up their respective functions in a short sentence.

Nothing world breaking of course, but not bad by any definition.

Every now and then, a group of people conceives a product that just kicks butt. A couple of decades ago, it was the machine that slices bread, then came the iPhone and now, it is E.

Project E is the future of social networking, as far as postmachina is concerned.

In the following clip, Renato Valdés Olmos quickly explains what E is and how it can be used:

Click on the image to see the showcase, it is roughly 8 megs in size.

Leonieke Verhoog is a team-lead of the “Digitaal” project within Dutch broadcasting organization VPRO and she, too, took the time to answer some questions on her likes and dislikes as far as web 2.0 is concerned.

Leonieke seems to know the scene very well, something you can tell by very passionate way of answering my questions, definitely worth watching.

Click on the image to see the interview, it is roughly 15 megs in size.

Simone Brummelhuis is the director of IENS.nl, a Dutch restaurant guide. Besides that, she is also spearheading a pan-European initiative to get more women involved in the world of technology.

I interviewed Simone about the roles and importance of females in the web world and got some pretty interesting answers that are definitely worth watching, no matter if you are male or female.

Click on the image to see the interview, it is roughly 37 megs in size.

Eef Grob, another employee from VPRO answered some questions on how the web (2.0) enables her to get some great information, but also, at times, overloads her with more information than she can handle.

Click on the image to see the interview, it is roughly 7 megs in size.

If there is one thing from the past year that keeps coming back, it is most probably PICNIC’07, the place where I met Marc, who then became my boss and mentor.

Apart from Marc, I also met a number of other, interesting people there, such as Luca Conti, Paul Bradshaw, the team from EJC and, last, but certainly not least: Dorien Aerts, who spearheaded the use of citizen journalism in a beautiful town called Hasselt.

Since first meeting her, it has been a joy to follow her journey and various projects and that is, how I discovered the mobile Webcamp, a barcamp’ish event that is to be held on Saturady, 26th of April at Kaai 16, which sounds very much like a Belgian version of my favorite hideout, Pakhuis de Zwijger.

The is, as the name suggests, a barcamp around the subset of web 2.0 that is commonly referred to as mobile 2.0 and guess what? I will be presenting there, on a topic of my own choosing.

However, as these things always tend to go, there is a point when you just gotta realize that sometimes, jumping into the cold water tends to be very rewarding (an attitude that was, in part, fed by my experiences at XOLO) and I signed up to present on the topic of social networking with mobile phones.

With PICNIC’07, Luca invited me, rather ad-hoc, to join him on-stage to talk about the divide between East and West and while I relished the opportunity, I actually considered my performance sub-par, mostly due to the fact that I was not able to prepare myself adequately.

With a week to go, I have a few good thoughts on what I am going to talk about and also started working on the technical side of things, such as arranging travel and a place to crash, but all in all, I am very much looking forward to sharing my views with a moderately sized audience, about 120 people, on social networking.

Mindy Hull is a professional with more than two decades of experience, who is currently working with eBuddy. Her background is in business development, forming strategic alliances and marketing and she took the time to answer some questions on the role of women on the web.

Click on the image to see the interview, it is roughly 28 megs in size.