Per 1 januari dit jaar is het naast de website ook verplicht je KVK nummer te vermelden in e-mail die je zakelijk verstuurd.
Kamer van Koophandel : Wetten en regels, KvK-nummer verplicht op websites en in e-mails
De vakbond voor zelfstandigen: Alternatief Voor Vakbond is begonnen met het aanbieden van een pensioen voorziening voor freelancers en andere zelfstandigen die niet van een ‘normale’ pensioen regeling gebruik kunnen gaan maken. Op dit moment is het niet meer dan een lijfrente polis, zij het onder redelijk gunstige voorwaarden, maar het is de bedoeling dat dit een volledige pensioen voorziening wordt met alle voordelen die mensen in loondienst ook genieten.
Minister De Geus van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid moet echter uiterlijk 1 april 2007 aan de Tweede Kamer aangeven hoe hij de knelpunten van waardeoverdracht en fiscaliteit bij de pensioenopbouw van zelfstandigen wil oplossen. Daarbij moet de minister nadrukkelijk de mogelijkheid van een (open) pensioenfonds voor zelfstandigen betrekken.
…in startup land. I’m posting some of the screenshots in my Flickr stream. Some more to come later, so check it out if you digg that sort of thing.
Logging into my electronic banking account today i noticed a press release stating that ABN AMRO now also has an online presence in Second Life. Weirdness. Is the bank desperate to be aknowledged as an online player, hip with the times?
SL seems to be more popular in the manager crowd than it is among actual people or, more fittingly, customers. When Sun announced Java was open sourced in SL they could host 60 people max in their virtual conference center, when dutch candidates for the elections flyered in SL about 10 people attended.
Lots of organisations do not seem to understand that the maximum exposure they will get on a given day in SL is very limited since the virtual space, like real space, is just that; a (3D) space with (virtual) boundaries. Unless you build a giant arena not many people can attend. Unless you build a giant arena that offers more than a bit of eye candy not many people -will- attend. And if they do you quickly run into the technical limitations of the SL servers and software.
Don’t get me wrong i think SL is a very interesting environment and phenomenon but the ease with which organisations are throwing dollars at the it makes me wonder if anyone calculated the ROI such online presences deliver compared to a good website. I guess one can always use a good excuse for a press release though…
If you were still wondering why the new release of Windows is taking so long to get to market you might want to read this chilling tale from a member of the ’start button’ program group. Yes there is such a group, and it counts eight, who worked on a single button for a year… go figure.
SOAP? The S stands for Simple, Duh!
Java is a few hours away from being open-sourced under an GPL2 license. I guess this was a long time in the coming but it is still a very significant change. It was never my favorite programming language but there is no denying that it is one of the most important, as in widely used, programming languages around.
This is probably the best theory i heard yet on why Google bought YouTube.
Normally i wouldn’t post about yet another google aquisition but this time ’round it’s sorta interesting since Jotspot is totally based on the Dojo Javascript toolkit. So did they want the wiki or the killer JS team? And does this mean Google will become a Dojo contributor?