I’m the co-founder & CTO of Foodzy, co-founder of online agency OKGO., speaker at The Next Speaker and blogger for Dutchcowboys. Born in 1981 and currently living in Amsterdam. Snowboarding, video games and music. Oh and good food and nice wines.Tumblr (3.0; @johanvoets)http://www.johanvoets.com/<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/l1LGE9b5hQQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Got to meet David Karp yesterday! Amazingly nice and enthusiastic guy with a great story to tell! Yessir! </p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/24130923799http://www.johanvoets.com/post/24130923799Thu, 31 May 2012 17:22:04 +0200<object width="400" height="284"> <param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2012/Blank/SherryTurkle_2012-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SherryTurkle_2012-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1409&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=sherry_turkle_alone_together;year=2012;theme=media_that_matters;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;event=TED2012;tag=communication;tag=community;tag=culture;tag=technology;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="400" height="284" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2012/Blank/SherryTurkle_2012-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SherryTurkle_2012-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1409&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=sherry_turkle_alone_together;year=2012;theme=media_that_matters;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;event=TED2012;tag=communication;tag=community;tag=culture;tag=technology;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"></embed></object> <br/><br/><p>No one is listening: alone, together.</p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/20461235555http://www.johanvoets.com/post/20461235555Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:45:01 +0200“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”<br/><br/> - <em>Jack Dorsey</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19776766377http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19776766377Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:00:06 +0100<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P_4uhY6i7zY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Sunny tunes.</p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19731214167http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19731214167Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:00:06 +0100“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”<br/><br/> - <em>Michael Dell</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19725943177http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19725943177Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:00:05 +0100<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HHcHYisZFLU?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Is it june yet? :-)</p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19678964217http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19678964217Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:00:05 +0100“When you free slaves, they’re basically out of a job”<br/><br/> - <em>Jaron Lanier at SXSW 2012</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19653400312http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19653400312Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:27:08 +0100<a href="http://sxswnl.posterous.com/sxsw-interactive-2012-big-data-big-issue">SXSW 2012: Big Data, Big Issue</a>: <p>My recap of this years edition of the South By South West (SXSW) festival, held in Austin, Texas. Warning: since it’s posted on the Dutch co-op SXSW Posterous, so it’s a good chance to brush up your Dutch! :-)</p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19573718084http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19573718084Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:12:00 +0100“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss; but every once in a while, you find someone who’s iridescent, and once you do, nothing will ever compare.”<br/><br/> - <em>Chet Duncan, Flipped (2010)</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19568206705http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19568206705Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:40:21 +0100<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/38563589?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="224" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19568167604http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19568167604Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:38:40 +0100“The fanatic is always consealing a secret doubt”<br/><br/> - <em>Mr. Smiley, Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19568113936http://www.johanvoets.com/post/19568113936Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:35:12 +0100<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SuHmEo0Bx7Q?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This gets me all kinds of excited. <em>(but please don’t let it be a commercial for an insurance company!)</em></p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/16571826606http://www.johanvoets.com/post/16571826606Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:12:02 +0100“Explanations are such cheap poetry.”<br/><br/> - <em>Main character in Stephen King’s “11.22.63”.</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/15972622398http://www.johanvoets.com/post/15972622398Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:51:57 +0100“Even the future has a due date”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Garten" target="_blank">Ariel Garten</a>, CEO of InteraXon</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13965574677http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13965574677Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:38:36 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvxs3bvih81qzqsq8o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><span>Dutch tech-vet and good friend <a href="http://twitter.com/erwblo" target="_blank">Erwin Blom</a> started a really nice initiative to round op 2011: on his multimediaplatform <a href="http://fastmovingtargets.nl/blik-kijk/" target="_blank">Fast Moving Targets</a>, people can get themselves interviewed by Blom on their personal experiences this year and their expectancies for 2012. The interviews then get placed <a href="http://fastmovingtargets.nl/blik-kijk/" target="_blank">on a map</a>, creating a cool mashup of interviews with people from the Dutch tech scene. </span></p> <div></div> <div>Ofcourse I put in my two cents, describing the realisation of the power of big data as an important trend of the past year and data interpretation as a big one for 2012. Audio is in Dutch, unfortunately.</div>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13965422376http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13965422376Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:30:47 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvq74dNANk1qzqsq8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h2>Currently reading</h2> <p>So after the *cough* small disappointment of the translated Steve Jobs biography, I decided to add only original renditions to my Sinterklaas-wishlist. And guess what: his Royal Sintness totally digged my wished and decided to gift me these two. Nice!</p> <p>Started reading in “The Lean Startup” yesterday. Had the chance to read bits and pieces of it at visits to the bookstore in the last few months, so it was of great pleasure to finally sit down in a comfy chair and really get into it. Yay.</p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13774715572http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13774715572Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:14:00 +0100bookinstagramthe lean startupreadingjoin the club“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think of what can be done better tomorrow.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad" target="_blank">Ingvar Kamprad</a>, Founder of Ikea.</em>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13725899026http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13725899026Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:27:44 +0100<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32796535" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><blockquote></blockquote> <p>No real need for it, still want one though. Including option to print a little Foodzy-dashboard each morning!</p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13725107571http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13725107571Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:50:00 +0100xl<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvn7i4AG301qzqsq8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Empire State Of Mind.</p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13689711766http://www.johanvoets.com/post/13689711766Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:30:00 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luvq6tNSYI1qzqsq8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h2>Benner. </h2> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone<br/> - Posted using <a href="http://moby.to/6yzmfx">Mobypicture.com</a></p>http://www.johanvoets.com/post/12985038385http://www.johanvoets.com/post/12985038385Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:20:52 +0100