Pieter van Gils

I have a dinner tonight at cafe/restaurant Cradam together with some internet/media geeks. Here’s a list of everybody who’s joining:

• Merlijn van Vliet (Strategist OER, Internet entrepeneur 0031 Marketing)
• Joris Verhaak (Strategist OER, Internet entrepeneur 0031 Marketing)
• Marcel van der Heijden (Digital DNA, (ex)-manager Generation Next)
• Rutger Polling (Digital DNA)
• Frank Schuil (Internet entrepeneur IRL Connect)
• Polle de Maagt (polle.net)
• Pieter van Gils (C’est moi)
• Wouter Broekhof (Wakoopa)
• Robert Gaal (Wakoopa, Blueace)
• Menno (Wakoopa)
• Gijs Veerhoek (extrafris)
• Arjan in ‘t veld (inthefield)
• Kasper van der Laan (Eurosport)
• Martijn Reintjes (Pepergroen)
• Martijn Tiemersma (online marketeer Telegraaf)
• Marc Metekohij (Client manager Satama)
• Jeroen Rossier (student commercial economy)
• Joris Tensen (Project manager Evident interactive)
• Jasper van Gils ( jaspervangils.nl)

My only question is: Where are all the girls???

After finding a nice pic of Alexandra promoting FireFox we now have somebody supporting google:

Found on seoblackhat.

I signed up to MySpace 2 days ago to take a closer look at this social network. When I signed up I automatically had 1 friend, a dutch guy working for MySpace, nothing wrong with that.

Today I received an email from Angila, who wants to connect with me.

WOW! Only 2 days on MySpace and the girls are already interested in me. How old is she? Is she hot? Do I know here already? Is she living close to me? Will she be my future wife? As you can see I went crazy because of this new friendship.

I immediately clicked on her profile to get some more information and I was amazed. Angila is 19 years old and MySpace blocked her profile because she had some nude modeling pictures. There’s a link on her profile page that will guide me to her new website where I can see the pictures if I want to. I’m at work now and I’m pretty shure that the pictures are NSFW. When I’m at home tonight I’ll visit here website and maybe send her a message (if the pictures are nice!).

I’m really glad I have some friends now on MySpace.

.pǝɹoq ɯɐ ı ʇɐ ɟ1ǝsɹnoʎ ʇı ʎɹʇ .sıɥʇ ǝʞı1 ʇxǝʇ ɐ ǝʇɐǝɹɔ oʇ spuoɔǝs ʍǝɟ ɐ sǝʞɐʇ ʎ1uo ʇı .uʍop ǝpısdn sı ʎ11ɐǝɹ ʇı ʇnq ʇxǝʇ ǝɥʇ pɐǝɹ oʇ ǝ1qɐ 11ıʇs ǝɹɐ noʎ .ʎuunɟ ʎʇʇǝɹd s,ʇı ʞuıɥʇ ı puɐ oǝs11ɐʍuɹoɔ uo 1ooʇ sıɥʇ punoɟ ı

From my colleague Mitchel Geerts I received this list in an email today. He definitely needs a holiday break because he was laughing every time. I admit that I laughed about some of them, but come on… pronouncing Krasilovsky is almost impossible. Test it yourself! As an SEO expert you need a holiday when….

1. You wish the people who do movie credits would start spelling stunt dubl the right way.
2. When helping a client find the right domain, you suggest she add “moz” to the legal business name.
3. The S, E, and O keys on your keyboard are broken.
4. When your son tells you he wants to go play in the sandbox, you tell him it doesn’t exist. Or…
5. When your son tells you he wants to go play in the sandbox, you fear you won’t see him again for eight months.
6. You think the idea of spending four days in Chicago in December sounds fun.
7. You can pronounce Krasilovsky.
8. You giggle like a little girl every time you tell the butcher you’d like some pork Cuttlets.
9. Latent Semantic Indexing makes sense to you.
10. When your child asks you to explain the myth of Sisyphus, you tell her about the DMOZ submission process.
11. You lay awake at night wondering who would win a foot race: a marketing pilgrim or a marketing sherpa.
12. You feel uncomfortable and out of place at a minor league baseball game because you don’t see a Text Link Ads advertisement on the outfield wall.
13. At the same ball game, you wonder why the souvenir stand is only selling gray hats.
14. On a visit to the zoo, you realize that the graywolf, web guerilla, and randfish exhibits must be closed. You’re pissed about that.
15. You know the URLs for Search Engine Guide, Search Engine Herald, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Lowdown, Search Engine Roundtable, and Search Engine Watch, and can explain the nuances which make each unique, not to mention rattle off the list of writers for each one, including those who write for more than one of them.
16. Following in the footsteps of Cartoon Barry, your brilliant idea for 2007 is to create an alter-ego for yourself called “SEO Shaft.” Your blog’s tagline will be “Can ya Digg it?”
17. You wish every search engine had a duplicate content filter as good as TiVo’s.
18. When your daughter brings home a new boyfriend to meet you, your first thought is to check his backlinks.
19. Your second thought is to warn them about the dangers of reciprocal linking.
20. You just wrote an article titled “50 Amazing Things For Sale in My Garage This Weekend.” You think the local paper will publish it. Or at least link to it.
21. You laughed at anything on this list!

Mark de Kock posted a funny test from Mingle2 which concluded that I am 82% addicted to blogging:
82%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Try it yourself by clicking on the image.

1. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: ‘I am very rich. ‘Marry me!’ That’s Direct Marketing

2. You’re at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says: ‘He’s very rich. ‘Marry him.’ That’s Advertising

3. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day, you call and say: ‘Hi, I’m very rich. ‘Marry me ‘. That’s Telemarketing

4. You’re at a party and see gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink, you open the door (of the car)for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her ride and then say: ‘By the way, I’m rich. Will you ‘Marry Me?’ That’s Public Relations

5. You’re at a party and see gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says: ‘You are very rich! ‘Can you marry ! me?’ That’s Brand Recognition

6. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: ‘I am very rich. Marry me!’ She gives you a nice hard slap on your face. That’s Customer Feedback

7. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: ‘I am very rich. Marry me!’ And she introduces you to her husband. That’s demand and supply gap

8. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say anything, another person come and tell her: ‘I’m rich. Will you marry me?’ and she goes with him. That’s competition eating into your market share

9. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say: ‘I’m rich, Marry me!’ your wife arrives. That’s restriction for entering new markets.