Author Archives: Dominiek ter Heide

Co-founder Wanted for Interest Intelligence Platform

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By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: July 15, 2010
For a while now, I’ve been toying with the concept of an attention profiling service. Over the course of 2010 I’ve started building a (pretty sophisticated) prototype and it has now taken the shape of a startup that has great potential. For the time being, it’s called Reccoon. Reccoon in Short Initially, Reccoon will be an Open [...]
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Technology Acceleration Economics 101

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By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: May 20, 2010
Recently, there was a talk at the Singularity University by John Mauldin that discussed some of the debt problems in the US and world economy. While I’m happy to see the Singularity community continue the debate across multiple disciplines, I still think there is a lot that needs to be addressed regarding the economics around [...]
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An Innovator Leaving Japan

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By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: May 7, 2010
Deep-rooted Problems in the Japanese Knowledge Economy I’ve been working on this report for quite some time, it is a deep analysis of the current economic and business climate mixed in with my experience as an IT developer and entrepreneur in Japan (8 pages): An Innovator Leaving Japan.pdf Introduction Most people learn about Japan for the first time [...]
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Rethinking Professionalism: The Meta-Expert

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By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: March 24, 2010
Recently I’ve been a bit annoyed by the use of the word ‘expert’ and ‘professional’. These words are used a lot, but I feel that they’ve been outdated for many reasons. In my own experience, I’ve had more negative than positive transactions with experts and professionals that advertise themselves as such. Today, while watching the Bill [...]
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The Rise of JS and the New Server-side

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By Dominiek ter Heide | Published: February 3, 2010
I started writing this article in my excitement of Server-side Javascript (SSJS) and how I’ve become increasingly interested in Javascript (JS) over the past years. But at the end of the day, Javascript is just another programming language, its importance is defined by the frameworks and applications that are built on top of it. But [...]
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