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Just now, the Rockstart accelerator program launched. A Rockstart initiative that gives startups, both tech and non tech a change to accelarate by giving them means, housing and knowledge.

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Yesterday I attended Gamehub, a Belgian initiative to act as an incubator for the Gameindustry and talent in Belgium. It is a 2 year project with the cooperation of Higher Education and University  (Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg (PHL),  Universiteit Hasselt,  Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg and GROEP T Internationale Hogeschool Leuven) as well as European and National funds. They tried to bring together business and talent as well as Belgium game studio’s. Although the turn-up of business related attendees was not too big, it was a very interesting day with regard to showcasing fruitful and innovative projects that flourish in  the tiny country of  Belgium. Good to see the cooperation of governments and Educators in this long-term project investing in their knowledge economy trying to keep talent and creativity on board. For a quick overview of the speakers and their presentations you can see my sketchnotes here. The afternoon was packed with hands-on in depth workshops, from stopmotion animation to game based learning. Thanks for having me guys.

Fast moving Targets is an initiative from Erwin Blom and Wessel de Valk, who wanted to create a crossmedia platform about technology, innovation, communication and media. Their goal is to inform, detect and show what is going on around us, not only for us as users, but also with us as users.

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I’ve been using Google+ for a while now and I am absolutely loving it. It has openness en collaboration, it has the same easy commenting structure FriendFeed used to have in the early days, and somehow for me it feels more natural to use than Facebook. But that doesn’t mean that the two can’t co-excist. There is a lot of debate going on on Google+, will it win from Facebook, will it win from Twitter. I don’t know if it needs to.

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I’ve been trying out the new Google+ for about a week now. At first I was a bit sceptic, the buzz was there, everyone wanting an invite felt a bit like both the Wave and the Buzz introduction. Look how that turned out. So I approached with some aloofness; just another Facebook look-alike, even the ‘stream’ and +1 stead of ‘like’. Still I started playing with it for a bit. The ‘circles’, that proof to actually work very efficient. Checking out the ‘picture’ part. The ‘hangout’, which is a Google-talk feature that lets you video chat with groups of friends. Sparks, that I am not really sure about yet . Than I realized, this is much more than just another Facebook look-alike. This is Google tying together the web. They already had all the good services that I use every single day in place. Now they are tying it together with a solid social addition that looks good and is integrated in all of their existing services.

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So here it is, the visual resume that I made for Mireille Hoogerbeets, to add to her traditional profiles both on – and offline. Featuring her skills and personality rather than her education and work history.

Fast Moving Targets is a new platform on innovation, media, communication and what not. The platform is still a work in progress but a blog is already online and the first live webcast interviews have been broadcasted and others will follow (follow @fastmoving).

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-”Are they felt tip?” -”What brand pens do you use?” I get asked these questions a lot. And I am always happy to answer them, though the answer depends on what I have with me at the moment, it being my Faber-Castell brush tips, my Pigma Micron Pens, my Stabilo’s or even just round tip Edding whiteboard markers. It’s the situation that calls for certain pens, but only because they feel ‘comfortable’ or suit the medium. Not because they make me draw better.

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As a visual communications specialist, the only natural way to write a resume, seems to be drawing one instead.

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Adobe has come out with three unique iPad apps to enrich the use of Photoshop with the unique features of the iPad touch.

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