The city of Amsterdam, the Dutch government, and a host of private sponsors are funding an accelerator for "successful dropouts and Harvard alumni" from around the world. The goal? More talent in Amsterdam.
With 11 more wind farms under construction, a topic at this Amsterdam gathering of the European Wind Energy Association, Europe is on track to triple the power it gets from wind by 2020.
The Anne Frank Museum has launched a virtual tour of the house where the diarist hid from the Nazis during World War II. The reconstruction shows the Amsterdam house as it was over 60 years ago, and has a bunch of extra features, including text and films to show the teenager's incarceration as it was.
This weekend in Amsterdam you may see a whole bunch of people waving their smartphones around at once. It's the first social net/augmented reality flashmob, aka a fabulous way to combine three novel Net memes into one event.
Urban planners in Amsterdam had a problem: What to do with three old silos, from a derelict sewage treatment plant? So they held a competition to re-imagine the site. The winning entry is a multi-story cultural center that transforms an eyesore into an icon that is visible from nearly anywhere in the surrounding area.
