All-round webdeveloper & blogger
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Founder/Contributing Editor at The Next Web
- Co-founder/Advisor at Alchemyst
- Co-founder/CEO at Wakoopa
- Owner at 53MILES
- Co-founder at The Roomware Project
- Past
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- Founder/Chief Editor at BlueAce
- Jury Board Member at The Next Web Awards
- Senior developer at Stillpoint Media
- All-round developer at De Internet Programmeurs
- Education
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- Self-taught
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Robert Gaal’s Summary
All-round web developer, designer and writer. Managed and build multiple (social) applications. Currently co-founder at Wakoopa, a social network about software usage, while organizing multiple meetings and (open-source) initiatives like The Roomware Project.
Robert Gaal’s Specialties:
programming, ruby, php, design, interface, social networks, startups, web 2.0, openid, widgets, blogs, api
Robert Gaal’s Experience
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Founder/Contributing Editor
The Next Web
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
January 2008 — Present (5 months)
The Next Web is a weblog that came out of a conference in 2006, and is focused around giving international startups and the entrepreneurs behind them the limelight. I joined them in 2008 when it merged with BlueAce.
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Co-founder/Advisor
Alchemyst
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (5 months)
Alchemyst (alchemyst.org) is a roomware experience design firm in Amsterdam. We use the technology of The Roomware Project and bring it into venues and events. For that we won a Spinaward for Best Mobile Concept in 2008 together with Hyves.
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Co-founder/CEO
Wakoopa
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Wakoopa is a social network site for software users. It allows you to track what you've been using on your desktop, share that with others, and discover new cool applications and games.
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Owner
53MILES
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)
53MILES (previously named M80) is my own personal holding company.
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Co-founder
The Roomware Project
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
The Roomware Project (http://roomwareproject.org) is a open-source framework for interactive spaces. It's aimed at providing developers with a general open-source server platform to deploy their room based applications on, without inventing the wheel all over again. For instance: a SMS music voting system, a RFID dating service or a bluetooth communication app. Download the server software, install your own applications, arrange the hardware, and go!
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Founder/Chief Editor
BlueAce
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 11 months)
BlueAce was the leading Dutch weblog on Web 2.0 business and technology. We also organized the Dutch Web 2.0 Awards every year, where over 150 business and 50.000 voters have already participated in. It was acquired by The Next Web in January 2008.
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Jury Board Member
The Next Web Awards
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
The public awards for upcoming services, that will change the web as we know it. Hosted by The Next Web Conference, June 1st in Amsterdam.
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Senior developer
Stillpoint Media
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — September 2006 (8 months)
Developed and managed numerous projects like Beeplet, eKudos and OriginalSignal.
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All-round developer
De Internet Programmeurs
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 6 months)
Worked with clients such as Osram and Lips on their back- and frontend presentation.
Robert Gaal’s Education
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Self-taught
Autodidacticism, Information Sciences, Economics
After finishing high-school I took some time off to find out what I wanted to do when I "grew up" and started on web development immediately. I never looked back.
Additional Information
Robert Gaal’s Websites:
Robert Gaal’s Interests:
entrepreneurship, technology, webapplications, digital culture, mobile software, web 2.0, social software, rubyonrails, design, interface
Robert Gaal’s Groups:
Geek Dinner, Lunch 2.0, OpenCoffee, Roomware
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Kings of Code | A Gathering for Web Developers member -
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Dutch Media Professionals member -
The Roomware Project member
Robert Gaal’s Honors:
Businessweeks Europe's Top Young Entrepreneur, 2007
The Next Web Awards Onstage Startup, 2008
Spinaward Best Mobile Concept, 2008
Robert Gaal’s Contact Settings
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