Arnold van Sabben

Obsessed with Business Strategy, Information, Design & Mobility. Master thesis about Foursquare - Business Information Systems - University of Amsterdam. Finished the semi-marathon de Paris in 2012 and the Tough Guy winter edition in 2013.

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'Focus is saying no to something that you with every bone in your body you think is a phenomenal idea & you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you're focused on something else.'

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Just only $42 for a Whatsapp account.

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Satya Nadella: His first interview as CEO of Microsoft

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Inside the chaos and spectacle of the NFL on FOX.

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New footage by @GoPro as part of this epic achievement by Felix Baumgartner and @RedBullStratos

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A GoPro + a flying Drone = a truly unique movie!

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Life's 6 Rules:

Trust yourself

Break the rules

Don't be afraid to fail

Don't listen to the nay-sayers

Work you butt off

Giving back

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[Dutch] 'In 2012 werd Nederland getroffen door ruim 30.000 blikseminslagen. In Groningen, waar de meeste blikseminslagen plaats vonden, werd de grootste prijs met de lotto gewonnen.' Nederland van Boven.

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[Dutch] 'Onze uien, paprika's, tomaten en komkommers zijn gewild. Nederland exporteert ieder jaar voor 70 miljard aan agrarische producten, maar importeert ook veel. Na China zijn wij bijvoorbeeld de grootste importeurs van soja.' Nederland van Boven

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My iPhone home screen on January 1st, 2014.

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A Dutch YouTube movie about mobile phones from 1998. Q: "Do you have a mobile phone?" A: "No, don't need one."

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What data can give you back

Yesterday, Foursquare has launched the Time Machine of your checkins. It is an awesome tool which lets you visualize all of your past check-ins, starting from your very first on (who that was for me on November 4th 2009!!). The time machine is a must see tool, really! Below, a signification change between the different categories of the last five years; from University to chill & relaxt spots!

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Just want to share with you the visualisation of Twitter (based on the geo-tag in the tweets). The above visualisation is about the hashtag #Euro2012. What you also must see are the visualisations of @Replies, RT's and Europe! Enjoy!

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The Facebook world we live in

Lately I found an interesting blog about data science based on the Facebook world we life in. A blog powered by the algorithms of Wolfram Alpha that allows people to contribute detailed data to Wolfram Aplpha for research purposes. Some interesting quotes from that blog:

Online friends:

'How big are these networks usually? In other words, how many friends do people typically have on Facebook? Well, at least for our users, that’s easy to answer. The median is 342. There’s a cutoff at 5000 because that’s the maximum number of friends for a personal Facebook page.'

Your Facebook age:

'The first thing we see is that the ages of friends always peak at or near the age of the person themselves—which is presumably a reflection of the fact that in today’s society many friends are made in age-based classes in school or college. For younger people, the peak around the person’s age tends to be pretty sharp. For older people, the distribution gets progressively broader.'

Young people are married!

'There’s some obvious goofiness at low ages with kids (slightly more often girls than boys) misreporting themselves as married.'

You talk about...

'People talk less about video games as they get older, and more about politics and the weather. Men typically talk more about sports and technology than women—and, somewhat surprisingly to me, they also talk more about movies, television and music. Women talk more about pets+animals, family+friends, relationships—and, at least after they reach child-bearing years, health.'

Yes, what we see is pretty much what we would expect from Facebook data, but these graphics give us a awesome visible overview.

Check it out: Data Science of the Facebook World

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Nowadays I am more in design and human computer interaction because I started a Stanford course whereby I will learn to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration....yes finally! ;)

The Foursquare app is definitely an example of how you design an app. Two Foursquare designers Mark Kupa and Courtney Christopher made the above landscape and Easter egg in the new 6.0 version.

One of my favorite parts of this project didn’t require any coding on my part. Foursquare’s brand is playful when appropriate, and we like to hide Easter eggs. Working with an iOS engineer, Brian, we added a hidden pull-to-refresh graphic. First, I gave Brian a blank, placeholder image so he could functionally complete the pull-to-refresh. As I worked on the illustration with a designer teammate, I continued to commit (and overwrite) the same image until it was done. I make many changes to our app like this.

See the Tumblr page of one of the designers for more information and beautiful designs.

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The new 6.0 version update from foursquare brings a new way to discover more and to figure out the most interesting things going on around you. It looks great and works awesome. What I noticed is that all my daily apps now have menu’s on the left side of the screen. Will this the best way to navigate through apps? Makes this update the app easier to use? What do you think of the new design?

My menu’s from left to right: Facebook, Spotify, Cobook,TechCrunch, Path, Wunderlist and the new Foursquare 6.0.

ps. go to the new home screen in Foursquare 6.0. Keep dragging up and you’ll be delighted with an easter egg.