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Dutch Public Broadcast System

Soon the Dutch governemnt will announce a new appraoch for the public BC system. The idea is to merge the different broadcasters, based on their own ideas. I am not close to the people involved, but know a couple of them. I just don't believe this is going to be easy. From 12 ceo's to 3, 12 cfo's to 3 etc etc. So many people have worked for ever in this system, so I think we should prepare for the worst severence pay in Dutch history. Or are the boys and girls in Hilversum smart by keeping the foot on the ball and deceive the politicians. One public broadcaster with a board of directors of 30??? I don't understand why the government doesn't take this opportunity to make a real change??? At the end of the day, the plan as I understand is not that well thought through and doesn't serve the public at all. Not to mention our cultural heritage on TV and Internet. Allowing only webbased activity based on the TV shows aired on the public net, shows how stupid our politicians are when it comes down to Internet. It should be the other way around ;-) OMG, I cannot believe the this....

We are expanding our development team for phase two of FUGA, AKA FUGA 2.0

We are expanding our development team and have started to build IMHO the most advanced and cool music application on top of what we call FUGA 1.0. We will build FUGA 2.0 :-)

I am looking for:

A super talented Junior Ruby developer

* Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
* Ruby on Rails knowledge
* Web development knowledge (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
* Unix and internet protocol knowledge is a pre
* Source code control knowledge is a pre

Senior JAVA developer

* Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
* Pro-active attitude
* At least 5 years experience with software development in a team (designs, release planning, patching etc)
* Excellent developer who writes structured, maintainable and testable code
* Excellent designer who can communicate his/her designs in a clear and concise manner
* In depth knowledge of java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, databases in general
* At least 5 years experience with programming in Java
* In depth knowledge of Unix (development experience as well as sysadmin experience with common programs)


JAVA/RUBY developer

* Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
* Pro-active attitude
* Ruby knowledge
* Knowledge of more programming languages is a pre
* At least 2 years experience with software development in a team (designs, release planning, patching etc)
* Excellent developer who writes structured, maintainable and testable code
* Knowledge of java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, databases in general
* At least 3 years experience with programming in Java
* Knowledge of Unix is a pre
* No objection to working from home for a few days/week


Web Designer

* At least 3 years experience with interaction design
* Knowledge of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
* Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
* Pro-active attitude

DBA

* At least 4 years of experience building data warehouses
* Wide variety of technologies, proprietary and open source

If you are interested or know somebody, please contact me at martijn[at]independentip.com.

I rest my case

IIP zoekt per direct een “Financial Controller” (part-time (2 a 3 dagen in de week)) Energiek financieel talent, intelligente doener, rechterhand van de CEO die een 2de of 3de carrière stap wil maken.

Taken & verantwoordelijkheden zijn o.a.;

• Het voeren voor de dagelijkse financiële administratie o.a. facturering, salaris administratie, betalingen
• Het uitvoeren maandelijkse controles en analyse tussenrekeningen, o.a. salarissen
• Het zorgen voor tijdige betalingen van crediteuren en debiteuren
• Het opstellen van maandelijkse financiële rapportage mbt balans, cash flow en P&L
• Het uitvoeren van budgetanalyses (budget vs actueel) en rapporteren van budgetvoortgang;
• Het opstellen van jaarrekening (managen jaarafsluitingsproces);
• Het optimaliseren en verbeteren van interne controles en financiële administratieve processen
• Het verzorgen van de belastingaangifte.

Wij zoeken iemand die het een uitdaging vindt bij te dragen aan allerlei bestaande en nieuwe activiteiten op het gebied van finance & control. Dit betekent veel dynamiek, korte deadlines, het leveren van prestaties en kwaliteit.

• Minimaal afgeronde opleiding HEAO Bedrijfseconomie/Accountancy;
• Je hebt minimaal 3-5 jaar relevante werkervaring binnen finance & control (incl. het opstellen van de jaarrekening);
• Je hebt praktisch boekhoudkundig ervaring  en
• Je hebt ervaring met opstellen van budgetten en administratieve processen
• Je bent zelfstandig en initiatiefrijk en dynamisch maar ook analytisch, zorgvuldig en accuraat
• Je hebt bijvoorkeur ervaring met Exact en gedegen kennis over Excel
• Goede beheersing Nederlandse en Engelse taal

Salaris:  Markt conform, afhankelijk van ervaring

Bedrijfsinformatie: (www.fugamusic.com)
IIP is een jong en dynamische ICT start-up werkzaam in de muziek industrie.  IIP biedt een dynamische en gedreven werksfeer waar veel wordt gelachen. IIP is continu in beweging en biedt de kans om mee te groeien in een steeds zwaarder worden financiële rol.

Voor meer informatie kun je contact opnemen met martijn[at]independentip.com

Happy to announce

On April 14, 2011, IIP closed a round of funding with informal investors to fuel growth and create extra capacity within the FUGA development team.

Martijn Tjho, CEO of IIP

“ 2011’s going to be a exciting year for all of us at FUGA!  With the best and most easy to use plaform in the market, an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base and a sharp vision of FUGA’s future, we’re ready to become the source of all our clients’ music and media data.

Our growth expansion plan is to give ALL music companies the ability to set up their digital operations under their own brand in the market place. This without the financial burden of housing an expensive and less effective IT department.

We’ll use our knowledge and resources to gain more exposure for the FUGA platform and continue to develop very advanced features that will expand our clients’ business reach more efficiently.”

Today FUGA offers Asset Management, Product Management, Release Scheduling Management, Encoding & Delivery Management and Basic Reporting Functionalities.

On May 1st, FUGA will offer “Territory Based Release Dates”. This highly requested feature will assist clients to configure a release schedule and set different pricings for their product ”territory by territory”.

By May 15th, we’ll release the FUGA “Tagging Framework”. This time-saving feature  will give our “larger catalog” clients the much needed ability to tag Assets and Products so they can quickly assemble a particular selection of their catalog for fast delivery to business partners.

During the 2nd week of June, we further exhibit FUGA’s power, by releasing a “Cross Licensing Network” on the FUGA platform.  Our clients will be able to collaborate on and license each other’s assets & products. This feature also allows the creation of multiple sets of meta data for one Asset or Product.   (For example, the allowance of a Chinese set of meta data.)

Martijn Tjho, - “ I couldn’t be more proud or enthusiastic with the results of our development team.  They’ve managed to implement my ideas, respond to the needs and requests of our clients, and utilize their own thoughts on improvements when needed.  Soon, I’ll be focusing my ideas more on Business Intelligence and Data Connection to every party in the music eco system.  I believe that by providing our clients the platform that powers their business and connects their data to, collecting societies, future digital music services and any other partner that needs the data, will boost our clients business. FUGA will become the heart of any digital music business pumping the data around on the internet, making sure that the content owners monetize their content in the most effective and profitable way.

The future of the music business will evolve around how good companies can manage all their data and FUGA is and will be the best platform to do this.”

Deeply ashamed! Man that sets himself on fire is dead

Man sets himself on fire

What kind of world do we live in that somebody gets so desperate that he sets himself on fire and dies? He applied for asilum in Holland and was not granted a residence permit. The likes of Geert Wilders and everybody else that is for keeping borders closed are responsible for this and in my eyes bloody murderers. We should have political leaders that care about our society and civilization and not just work the underbelly feelings with stupid voters. Why not grant everybody that comes in a working/staying permit, tax number etc. You build up your credits as you contribute, if you dont contribute you will have to leave again. When you are here to be a criminal you have to go too. Keep it simple and open instead of being afraid and closed. What a terrible way to die! R.I.P

Arthur Sabandar in memoriam

It's been a while ago since my dear friend Arthur passed away. Over the last months my thoughts were with him and with his family (that I don't know that well). I was wondering how his family was doing and thinking of how special this man was. The strange thing is that years later most people are forgotten. I just looked at the traffic on this blog and where it comes from. Top 3 sources are google searches for Arthur, WOW! But I guess that good people are not as easily forgotten as assholes... N.E.R.D.

The Dare to Share foundation is born

This week the founding of The Dare to Share foundation is a fact. Yeah! The idea behind the foundation is simple. Sharing.

Why? We founded Dare to Share because we believe that ideas and arts need a chance. Some ideas or art projects require very high risk to invest and cannot always be done if the mighty dollar is the only way success is measured.

What? A young band wants to record an album and set up a business structure. The investment for this is not a couple of dollars, but if done right significant. The Dare to Share foundation will invest and help the artist to create a proper business set up and that album recorded. ROI goes back to the foundation and used to help more artists. Or... A guy or girl in Brazil that has no money or experience wants to set up a business. No bank, no network to help or any chance to make that happen. Dare to Share doesn't care where you are born, what color your skin is or what you believe in. We believe in ideas and people and want to help if we can. You get the idea. Not all of us are lucky with who our mother and father are or where we live or who we know.

Dare to Share believes we can create a better world by sharing what we have and who we know.

 

Dutch internet providers won't put child porn filters in place...

Today's newspaper runs a story how child pornography filters aren't worth while because there is not enough childporn going around anymore. In itself this sounds as a good thing, doesn't it? Eeeuh NO! In the first place because one item of child ponography is one too many and needs to be tracked, traced, deleted and prosecuted. But this technology is the same kind of technology you need to use if you want to filter illegal music, film etc.  I think that's the reason this happens. hmmm

Nokia vs MS 7 vs Google vs escape routes from burning platform

Eric Schmidt was dissapointed that Nokia chose for MS instead of Google Android and keeps the door open. My respect for the Google guys and girls is huge. It's rare that a company can grow so fast and become a household name that quickly and IMHO Google compaires in no way to Facebook, Microsoft or any other tech company in history. So why did Nokia make this decision? Probably because its hard to think straight when your pants are on fire. Or, its the ego factor. They dont want Google to dominate the mobile space and think these guys from Sillicon Valley get to much power. For me this makes as much sense as the aversion to Windows and Bill Gates a lot of technology people have. It's envy based on nothing but not wanting others to be great. If I was the CEO of Nokia I would have struck deals with every decent OS, maybe even made a phone with so much processing power the user could run both. For Nokia it should be about connecting people.

I don't know the individuals involved here, but I know one thing....The innovation power of Google is like Austin Powers his stamina. Again and again they get it up and running and fill our lives witgh Google juice. The future is being shaped by many and some just shape better then others. Nokia is a great brand and a great company, so again why did they not go with Android, what is the bottom line here?

I want a phone that:

1. Looks good;

2. Multi Touch Screen & Keyboar;

3. 2 TB of memory and serve as mobileback up device for all my hardware; (like Apple Timecapsule)

4. High def video and photo camera;

5. All conectivity (WIFI, BT, G3, etc.) and more; (Can't they figure a way for phones to become the network? (Back in the days the Dutch KPN had something like that, didnt work because you need a lot of phones, but could work now);

6. Apps,GPS, Music, etc;

7. Would be nice if my phone could serve as a beamer or can be connected to external monitor;

8. Would be nice if my phone ran on solar or kinetic energy;

9. Would be nice if my phone would auto back up my data, so never do I have to retype my address book;

10. Call, Text, Video conference, Social networks etc;

11. Would be nice if my phone could swim and be very hard to break;

12. Would be nice if my phone could be my personal preference centre and could connect to any environment and configure automatically to my preference; (Here my imagination goes wild and even I don't understand what exactly I mean, it sounds nce though ;-);

13. My phone shoudn't be a phone anymore, but the heart of my personal technology.

I think mobile is the biggest money maker in the world, so the market place is crowded and full of innovation. The likes of Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc. have become followers and copycats. All I can say: It's not about the money stupid!

 

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