We are only 7 days away from the sixth edition ofThe Next Web Conference. On our TNW Editors backchannel I just mentioned that andCourtney Boyd Myersreplied with “Woohoo!”. Woohoo indeed, but to us here in the Amsterdam office it feels more like “OMG, Panic!!!”. Organizing a conference is completely the opposite of building a webservice or maintaining a blog. On the web, you are infinitely iterating. Everything is always evolving and never done....

There are an infinite number of articles we could write about Facebook, sorry,Meta’sperformance at its Connect event. The whole thing was a trainwreck. It’s a situation where I feel stuck between laughter (“man, Zuckerberg really has no self-awareness”) and abject horror (“he really wants to control the future of the internet”). But I cannot let my journalistic powers be weighed down by such concerns. I have a job, nay, apublic serviceto do....

Everybody has an artist inside and if your inner artist is a movie director or a camera operator, there’s an app for that! CollabraCamlets you shoot video with two, three or four iPhone/iPod touch cameras and it enables users to produce videos while keeping post-production to a minimum. A few weeks back weposteda brief overview of CollabraCam but now we’re putting it to the test. Getting Started To use CollabraCam all devices should be in a range of one WiFi network –no internet connection required....

As soon as my fingers leave the keyboard and hunt for a mouse or trackpad to select an app, link or file on my computer, I feel like I’m slowing down. Speed and efficiency is incredibly important to me and dragging a pointer back and forth across the screen just doesn’t cut it anymore. On a Mac, I boost my productivity with a customisable launcher app calledAlfred, which can handle almost any basic task with a few pithy keywords....

An interview with Aditya Sahay, co-founder of India basedRadbox, who visited New York for a few weeks. He describes his experiences and lessons from the visit. I was 30 minutes late for the interview, thanks to a shoddy Internet connection, and after I logged into my IM client, I’d already received a message from Aditya; enquiring “Are we on?”. I’d met him a few months back, and his no-nonsense personality comes fleeting back to me as I read those three words and realized he was on time, and I was late....