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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.

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.

Just two weeks after Paaspop, the 2008 edition of The Next Web was planned to happen at the beautiful Westergasfabriek area in Amsterdam and once again (for the third time in a row), I decided to join this fest of innovation and, to quote another attendee:

this buffet filled with delicious brainfood

This time around however, I decided to make things a bit more interesting, for obvious personal reasons.

As concluded before, working at XOLO has it’s perks, one of them being that we have a myriad cameras available for use, so I decided to assault the conference armed with a camera and a number of questions.

My hopes were that I would get at least two, maybe three interviews, at the end of the second day, I had a total of two hours of uncut footage. Even cut, I still had a good 90 minutes left, including high profile interviews with Robert Scoble and Jessica Mah as well as the, sometimes very controversial, views of a number of different attendees.

Day 1, for me, was mostly about interviewing companies and speakers, trying to get their views on how web 2.0 affected their lives in one way or another.

On Day 2, I focussed on capturing the views of females on web 2.0, because, after all, it is widely known that females tend to be more social beings than (most) males and as such, ought to have a different view on all things web.

The result is that I got some very good footage, with participation from people from, amongst others: VPRO, eBuddy and IENS.

As remarked during my live-blogging session, a camera is a powerful tool and if one asks the right questions (which I hopefully did), people are more than willing to share their stories, no matter if they are speaker or attendee.

Taping two hours of footage, obviously also requires a lot of editing, cutting and encoding but close to ten days after the conference, I was done with the better part of the clips.

Again, my thanks go out to XOLO.tv for making it possible to use their equipment, it made the whole conference a much more enjoyable event.

Wow. Last time around, I thought that the break between two intern reports was too long, well, turns out that this one was even longer and the reason for that, just like last time, is that I am too busy to actually blog.

Shortly after the last posting, GabeMac and I went to Paaspop in Schijndel, as an attached asset for KINK, one of the better radio stations in the Netherlands.

Paaspop was held during the (Dutch) Easter weekend on the 22nd and 23rd of march and and was comrpised of a good selection of acts, such as Blof (yay!), Krezip, Racoon, Within Temptation (kick-butt pyrotechnics show) as well as Stevie Ann and others.

Working during a festival certainly has its perks, one of them being that you get to go just about everywhere, because of your backstage pass. And go everywhere we did. To quote GabeMac:

working at XOLO has it’s perks

And right he is. Having a beer with the artists from one group and talking about the newest CD with the singer/songwriter from another really makes work a lot more bearable.

All in all, a very fun-filled weekend, even though the whole area looked like a mud hole most of the time.

For a number of good pictures, I would suggest going to the album for day 1 or the album for day 2.

Ralf Rijs is a software developer who deploys held desk solutions for big companies. Ralf took the time to answer some questions on the best use of technology and also shares an important (and good) insider tip with us.

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