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42workspace - Rotterdam's Leading Tech Coworking Space

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42workspace is Rotterdam's premier coworking space and community hub for tech startups, scale-ups, and freelancers, offering flexible membership plans, modern facilities, and an active tech ecosystem.

42workspace is Rotterdam's leading coworking space dedicated to innovative tech startups, scale-ups, and freelancers. Located in the heart of Rotterdam, it provides flexible membership options ranging from day passes (€20) to private offices (€375/month), along with comprehensive facilities including high-speed internet, meeting rooms, a fully equipped gym, 24/7 access, and a rooftop event space. Beyond physical workspace, 42workspace fosters an active tech community through a community app, networking events, and collaboration opportunities. The facility actively supports Rotterdam's tech ecosystem by partnering with innovation hubs, investors, and local authorities, and hosts a variety of events including meetups, tech talks, pitch competitions, and hackathons.

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The Power of Visiontypes

www.svpg.com

An exploration of how product visions and prototypes inspire innovation, using the Xerox PARC and Apple example to illustrate the difference between vision inspiration and successful product execution.

Marty Cagan discusses the concept of visiontypes — prototypes that communicate product vision—and their role in driving innovation. Using the famous example of Steve Jobs' visit to Xerox PARC, Cagan clarifies that Jobs didn't simply "copy" the graphical user interface prototype; rather, the PARC demo inspired his vision of what a desktop computer could become. The article emphasizes that while visiontypes can inspire teams and attract talent, the real work of innovation comes through extensive problem and solution discovery after the vision is established. Cagan draws from his own experience at HP Labs, where the team was similarly inspired by PARC and MIT's Media Lab, but ultimately failed to productize their vision of "the domesticated computer" due to poor enabling technology choices. The key insight is that creating a compelling vision is only the beginning; the ability to discover and deliver actual products that provide customer value is what truly defines innovation.

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Bots with an Attitude: Designing Ethical Creative Intelligence for Collaborative Communities

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An exploration of a collaborative tool that integrates intelligent, ethical bots into chat environments to enhance knowledge sharing and redefine human-machine relationships.

This article presents Jan Hein Hoogstad's project "Bots with an Attitude," which challenges conventional narratives about AI by proposing a practical reimagining of human-technology collaboration. Rather than positioning AI as a threat, the project introduces intelligent agents into a chat environment where bots and humans participate as equal community members. These bots are designed to perform specific tasks—acquiring, cleaning, analyzing, evaluating, and presenting data—to structure information flow and enhance collective knowledge sharing. The project redefines artificial intelligence as "ethical creative intelligence," emphasizing agents that generate relevant insights, combine information meaningfully, and respect community values. The initiative addresses a practical need for loosely-knitted communities like planet B, which struggle with continuous knowledge sharing across rotating participants. By implementing bots as active community participants rather than passive service tools, the project demonstrates that intelligent systems can support human collaboration without replacing human agency. The bots can assist with tasks like curating relevant hashtags or mapping information from shared links, while their presence in the conversation literally brings AI into the collaborative process as an equal participant.

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Lefthoek - AI-Powered Virtual Team Members

www.lefthoek.com

Lefthoek is an AI-powered virtual team member that automates onboarding, message synchronization, and knowledge management for growing organizations.

Lefthoek is a virtual team member powered by artificial intelligence designed to solve common organizational challenges. It addresses the repetitive burden of onboarding new team members by registering and recalling frequently asked questions, eliminating the need for teams to answer the same questions repeatedly. The platform also manages information overload from messaging apps by organizing and tracking conversations, ensuring team members stay synchronized even across different time zones and schedules. Additionally, Lefthoek automatically processes shared articles and resources, extracting key information, identifying important keywords, and building a tailor-made knowledge archive without requiring extra effort from team members. The platform emphasizes five core values: it's loyal (available 24/7), discrete (runs on your own servers for privacy), different (designed to augment human work rather than replace it), bespoke (customizable to your company's unique needs), and eager (continuously learns and improves). Lefthoek is positioned as a solution that makes work more meaningful by automating tedious, repetitive tasks while preserving human agency and decision-making.

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Offcourse - Open Source Crowdlearning Platform

offcourse.io

Offcourse is an open source platform that enables users to gather online learning resources and structure them into shareable courses for collaborative learning and knowledge sharing.

Offcourse is an open source platform designed to democratize online learning by allowing users to curate the best sources from across the internet—blogs, video tutorials, podcasts—and organize them into structured, easy-to-share courses. The platform facilitates "crowdlearning," a community-driven approach where individuals share knowledge they've learned and benefit from knowledge shared by others. Founded by an international team with diverse educational backgrounds, Offcourse supports both learners and trainers with tools to explore courses across design, programming, and other 21st century skills. The platform emphasizes the philosophy that sharing knowledge promotes growth and development for everyone involved.

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Offcourse Studio - Creative Technology & Ethical AI Design

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Offcourse Studio is a creative technology practice that designs ethical AI systems and custom tools to help organizations strengthen their knowledge infrastructure and work more effectively.

Offcourse Studio works with organizations to develop technology that genuinely serves their needs through a three-step process: mapping existing data and knowledge ecosystems, strategizing infrastructure improvements, and intervening with custom tools and services. Founded by Jan Hein Hoogstad, a philosopher and software architect, the studio specializes in creating personalized learning systems, AI-powered bots with personality, data validation systems, and other solutions that blend creative potential with ethical considerations. Their approach treats technology as an additional dimension that can visualize multiple outcomes and possibilities, drawing on diverse expertise across education, cultural institutions, and international networks.

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