Iskander Smit

I am working @Infonl as innovation director and leading @LABSinfonl, also blogger @targetisnew, co-organising @ThingsConAMS & Behavior Design AMS meetup #bdams
Visiting professor TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering (Connected Everyday Lab)

Previous issues

Iskander Smit - Issue #65

#65 June 7, 2017

Iskander Smit - Issue #64

#64 May 8, 2017

Iskander Smit - Issue #63

#63 April 19, 2017

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March 9, 2017

Iskander Smit - Issue #62 – Going places… Tomorrow I will travel to Austin for SXSW for the 5th time. Just like last year I will
#61

February 21, 2017

Iskander Smit - Issue #61 – Last month quite a lot happened at LABS and with ThingsCon Amsterdam. For the latter we established a
#60

January 25, 2017

Iskander Smit - Issue #60 – A midweek update for week 261 and 262 at LABS. This first weeks are always filled with new years drin
#59

January 10, 2017

Iskander Smit - Issue #59 – A short look into the last week at #LABSinfonl (260 since start). A nice mix of things, like collecti
#58

January 3, 2017

Iskander Smit - Issue #58 – 2017, here we come!A new year has started. First of all: I wish you an interesting and inspiring 2017
#57

December 20, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #57 – Another short update this week (257 for LABS).We had the videos of talks of ThingsCon published, also
#56

December 13, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #56 – As promised I continue with the weekly updates again. Last week (week 256 of LABS) was the week after
#55

December 7, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #55 – I maybe have lost count of the weeks a bit. This is more of a month update than the intended weekly o
#54

November 3, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #54 – A short look back at last week, week 250 of #LABSinfonl. Dutch Design Week made me go to Eindhoven a
#53

October 26, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #53 – It was a bit quiet here because I had a holiday break and before that very busy weeks what broke the
#52

September 14, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #52 – On the road most of the last week. First with a day conference on IoT & the City organised by and
#51

September 7, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #51 – Another kind of crazy week. We need to complete a proposal which always takes more time than you hope
#50

August 30, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #50 – If you follow this weekly updates you probably missed a couple of weeks. This is true, I missed two e
#49

August 9, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #49 – Big news last week was of course the addition of stories to Instagram and all the fuzz. Next to the w
#48

August 2, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #48 – This was really not the plan, again a late update, maybe I should make this into a midweek notes… Fro
#47

July 27, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #47 – The news of the week was dominated by politics of course, and the deeper consequences of the shift to
#46

July 19, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #46 – Last week the Pokemon Go hype is getting even more bigger; but I do not have tell you anything on tha
#45

July 13, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #45 – Last week we had two big news events: the introduction of Snapchat Memories is an important next step
#44

July 6, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #44 – A little belated this newsletter, sorry for that. From the week where the first deadly accident with
#43

June 28, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #43 – New articles on AI this week again. Interesting articles on the relation between human and machine ne
#42

June 21, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #42 – Last week was a week where Apple showed us the plans for the future services and devices. WWDC is alw
#41

June 14, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #41 – I did not manage to make the newsletter last week. Too bad. For the weeknotes on the activities, as y
#40

May 31, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #40 – Last week was filled with a client kickstart week and The Next Web conference. I was impressed with t
#39

May 24, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #39 – The main news of last week came of course from Google I/O. Lots of articles on that, below just a cou
#38

May 17, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #38 – This last week we had amongst others our second edition of Thingscon Salon. The workshop on speculati
#37

May 10, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #37 – Bots and other new forms of interaction with our digital shadow life, another week of interesting rea
#36

May 3, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #36 – This weeks articles deals again a lot with bots, AI and the consequences. It all fits nicely in a flo
#35

April 26, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #35 – You missed last weeks update, did not manage to finish that on time. I keep the rhythm and look back
#34

April 12, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #34 – Sorry for missing out one week of updates. It was to busy to make the time... Check out the weeknotes
#33

March 30, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #33 – Another later than planned edition of the newsletter. Feels still like Tuesday though... Check the we
#32

March 23, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #32 – Last two weeks I was away to Berlin and SXSW to speak at conferences. Check the presentation and repo
#31

March 9, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #31 – Last week I presented at Behavioural Informatics symposium, did some judging on mobile cases, and pre
#30

March 1, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #30 – A bit later than plannend. But here some of the news I captured for (later) reading. Last week at LAB
#29

February 23, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #29 – Last week we worked on running projects and I presented our ideas for the human approach in IoT at th
#28

February 16, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #28 – A week full of things, connected things, from Eindhoven to Delft and back to Amsterdam.
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February 9, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #27 – Let's do a short update on last week, when a new student project kicked off looking into the conversa
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February 2, 2016

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January 26, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #24 – I don’t think I can recall big news items of last week by heart. Except a snowpocalypse in the USA, t
#24

January 19, 2016

Iskander Smit - Issue #24 – Welcome to 2016. Straight into the year with a busy schedule... I did not managed to finish this week
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January 5, 2016

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December 29, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #22 – It is holiday season, so quiet all around. Last week I went seeing Star Wars and noticed an interesti
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December 22, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #21 – This weeks reads with my weeknotes (see labs.info.nl) with again some AI things and a lot of predicti
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December 15, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #20 – What were interesting articles last week? I collect some and add them to the weeknotes at labs.info.n
#19

December 8, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #19 – Due to my holidays I missed a couple of weeks of this e-mail. I was also rather busy organising a con
#18

November 3, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #18 – Some of the captured reads part of my weeknotes of Labs.info.nl
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October 27, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #17 – Check my weeknotes at labs.info.nl to see that it was a busy week so I probably missed some of the ne
#16

October 19, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #16 – I missed a week, sorry about that. Let's keep up the good work and do another update of some interest
#15

October 6, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #15 – Some reads I collected as part of my #193 week notes for #LABSinfonl.
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September 22, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #14 – My weekly dive in Pocket savings for the weeknotes on Labs.info.nl brought to you via this tiny news
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September 15, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #13 – The news of week 190 at #LABSinfonl, check for notes on the week labs.info.nl .
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September 1, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #12 – A day too late due to deadlines. Check source labs.info.nl too.
#11

August 24, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #11 – This week again a couple of interesting reads, as also mentioned in the weeknotes of labs.info.nl.
#10

August 18, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #10 – Last week I had a short holiday break. Partly. So I did not capture all the news but found some to sh
#9

August 11, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #9 – A weekly overview of read-worthy articles. In my opinion of course. Check also the weeknotes on the w
#8

August 3, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #8 – A weekly overview of interesting reads - I hope - that crossed my mailbox, feeds or social channels.
#7

July 27, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #7 – These are the articles I dropped at the end of the Labs weeknotes of week 183. Check also what we did
#6

July 20, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #6 – This week is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (again, it is a hot topic...) and other stuff. Chec
#5

July 13, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #5 – This week's links I shared in the weeknotes of Labs. Check also http://labs.info.nl in case you like
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July 6, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #4 – Also this week the most interesting reads that where part of the weeknotes at Labs.info.nl.
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June 29, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #3 – Also this week an overview of the most interesting reads I found. Because of a busy week it is a bit
#2

June 22, 2015

Iskander Smit - Issue #2 – As part of the weeknotes I make for LABSinfonl I collect articles that interest me most in that week.
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June 15, 2015

Revue issue #1 – As part of the weeknotes I make for LABSinfonl I collect articles that interest me most in that wee