Richard Kastelein
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Richard Kastelein, a Dutch Canadian dual citizen, the publisher and co-founder of Appmarket.tv, the first online portal, community, events and industry directory for the emerging industry around TV applications and widgets, Social TV, Multiplatform Strategy, Connected TV, and Transmedia. Currently based in Groningen, The Netherlands, and London
, England. He is also the Managing Director of Agora Media Group Ltd. in London and a Speaker around the topic of future Television. Kastelein has spoken at a number of conferences in the UK, France, USA, The Netherlands and Brazil. Such as the UK's 2nd Annual Digital Convergence Summit, Apps World in London, the Future of TV Advertising and the Brazilian International TV Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
He's also is the publisher, editor and founder of Atlantic Free Press
along with a number of other online progressive, activist websites.
Kastelein has guest lectured at the Hanze University Groningen, Netherlands on futurism in technology and marketing - particularly around social media
and Social tv. In 2010 he was Deloitte Netherlands Tech Visionary for his predictions and futurist views on New media
and Social tv. And in 2011, he won a Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovation - his five year Atlantic Free Press project and Free Press Group were honoured for visionary application of information technology to promote positive social, economic and educational change including category co-winners from NASA, Duke University, LexisNexis, and George Washington University.
Kastelein was nominated for ConnectedWorld.TV Personality of the Year in 2011, vying against Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
, chief executive officer of SoftBank Capital Masayoshi Son
, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)'s Chairman Nidhish Parikh, Director of Personal Media Industry Collaboration for Nokia and director of Amazon Instant Video Cameron Janes and Leo Laporte
, an American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur.
technology including A Quest For Hope: Searching For Ways Out Of Postmodern Nihilism Into New Reality (Volume 1) by Jan Chr. Vaessen Ph.D., The Chronicles Of Nefaria by William A. Cook Ph.D., The Rape Of Palestine: Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied by William A. Cook Ph.D., Oceania by Andre Vltchek
, and Empire Burlesque by Chris Floyd
in 2006, followed shortly by Pacific Free Press and Gorilla Radio (both edited by Chris Cook in Victoria, B.C., Canada). His one-off activist site at Thank You Qwest - set up to thank the company for taking on the US Administration on privacy issues was covered by a number of mainstream media including the CNN
Situation Room, USA Today
, New York Times, Denver Post and The Salt Lake Tribune
Unassociated Press, another activist site built by Kastelein was set up to petition against the Associated Press
and also for bloggers to boycott referencing or linking to Associated Press articles after they issued at take-down order against community news site the Drudge Retort. Unassociated Press was covered by Journalism.co.uk
, Editor's Weblog and Zdnet
He hosts a number of controversial writers on his servers, such as Craig Murray
, the former United Kingdom Ambassador to Uzbekistan
, who was shut down by his hosting company after Russian billionaire, Alisher Usmanov
silenced Murray with lawyers. Usmanov
went on to suffer from the Streisand effect
despite hiring a legal firm to silence Murray - which backfired when it became a cause célèbre
, and the material was made viral throughout the Political blogosphere. Kastelein also hosts Canadian environmental activist Ingmar Lee, and Nick Chesterfield - an Australian grassroots security analyst and activist who stands up for the rights of Indigenous Peoples across the Asia-Pacific Region.
One work from his political photoshopping art collection, called Richard Kastelein's Guantanamo was used by the University of California Davis, for the Center For the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.
in 1991 as a 24-year-old captain of 100 feet (30.5 m) wooden schooner Tironga, then the oldest floating boat in the world, built in 1869 in Thuro, Denmark. He lived aboard several vessels while working in the media in Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
. He has also worked as a charterboat captain, sailing instructor and sailboat delivery skipper for Sunsail Caribbean. His 'hitchhiking' sailing lifestyle was covered by Avantoure Magazine in 2009. Kastelein built a 1.2 million dollar catamaran with Avante Yachts in Brazil in 2004.
, Canada
, under the tutelage of Slave River Journal's Publisher Don Jaque and editor Liz Crompton. He then continued in the Caribbean as English editor at St. Martin's Week in French Saint Martin
, Features editor at Today Newspaper in Dutch Sint Maarten, and was managing editor of What's ON magazine in the Netherlands Antilles
. He's a member of Wired Journalists and Editor at Large for Travolon Online - a trilingual B2B travel publication based in Brussels, Belgium
was while building an early internet portal for the Caribbean in 1997 at suchislife.com. He added on a free Bravenet forum to the site and watched while thousands of tourists started to comment on their trips to the islands. In 2003, he launched Expat Forums Online for English speakers in Europe with American expatriate Jason Goecke - and they voluntarily managed the community for three years further - which went on to over 350,000 comments and posts over the years. He has been consulting on and speaking in the social media space since 2005. Kastelein's Social Media Dictionary compiled at Expathos was used by author Joel Postman in his award winning book SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England. He is also the Managing Director of Agora Media Group Ltd. in London and a Speaker around the topic of future Television. Kastelein has spoken at a number of conferences in the UK, France, USA, The Netherlands and Brazil. Such as the UK's 2nd Annual Digital Convergence Summit, Apps World in London, the Future of TV Advertising and the Brazilian International TV Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
He's also is the publisher, editor and founder of Atlantic Free Press
Atlantic Free Press
Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in Groningen, The Netherlands and has published over 13,000 articles from over 300 progressive writers worldwide since its inception.The publication's mission ...
along with a number of other online progressive, activist websites.
Kastelein has guest lectured at the Hanze University Groningen, Netherlands on futurism in technology and marketing - particularly around social media
Social media
The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
and Social tv. In 2010 he was Deloitte Netherlands Tech Visionary for his predictions and futurist views on New media
New media
New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...
and Social tv. And in 2011, he won a Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovation - his five year Atlantic Free Press project and Free Press Group were honoured for visionary application of information technology to promote positive social, economic and educational change including category co-winners from NASA, Duke University, LexisNexis, and George Washington University.
Kastelein was nominated for ConnectedWorld.TV Personality of the Year in 2011, vying against Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president...
, chief executive officer of SoftBank Capital Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son , born a Zainichi Korean and now a naturalized Japanese citizen, is a businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank Capital, and the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile...
, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)'s Chairman Nidhish Parikh, Director of Personal Media Industry Collaboration for Nokia and director of Amazon Instant Video Cameron Janes and Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte
Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
, an American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur.
Technology
As one of the developers of the Cross Media Social Platform with UK-based Sparkling Media, Kastelein is an early social tv evangelist and convergent media analyst. In 2007, he was part of the technology team who bridged telephony 2.0, real-time 3D, the web and broadcast television with Twinners - a format developed around new technology which broadcast on SuperRTL in Germany, RTL in Belgium and TV Copenhagen in Denmark. He now writes and speaks on convergent media, social TV and the integration of the web and TV..Publishing
Under Expathos, Kastelein has published a number of books using Print on demandPrint on demand
Print on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...
technology including A Quest For Hope: Searching For Ways Out Of Postmodern Nihilism Into New Reality (Volume 1) by Jan Chr. Vaessen Ph.D., The Chronicles Of Nefaria by William A. Cook Ph.D., The Rape Of Palestine: Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied by William A. Cook Ph.D., Oceania by Andre Vltchek
Andre Vltchek
André Vltchek is a naturalized US citizen and novelist, filmmaker, journalist, photographer and playwright.-Biography:André Vltchek was born in Leningrad , the Soviet Union, in 1963.-Novelist and playwright:...
, and Empire Burlesque by Chris Floyd
Activism
Kastelein first started publishing dissident and progressive online websites when he teamed up with Chris Floyd in 2005, and launched Empire Burlesque together with the former Moscow Times columnist. He then moved on to launch Atlantic Free PressAtlantic Free Press
Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in Groningen, The Netherlands and has published over 13,000 articles from over 300 progressive writers worldwide since its inception.The publication's mission ...
in 2006, followed shortly by Pacific Free Press and Gorilla Radio (both edited by Chris Cook in Victoria, B.C., Canada). His one-off activist site at Thank You Qwest - set up to thank the company for taking on the US Administration on privacy issues was covered by a number of mainstream media including the CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
Situation Room, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, New York Times, Denver Post and The Salt Lake Tribune
Unassociated Press, another activist site built by Kastelein was set up to petition against the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
and also for bloggers to boycott referencing or linking to Associated Press articles after they issued at take-down order against community news site the Drudge Retort. Unassociated Press was covered by Journalism.co.uk
Journalism.co.uk
Journalism.co.uk was founded in 1999 with the aim of covering the online publishing industry and how the Internet is fundamentally changing the practice of journalism...
, Editor's Weblog and Zdnet
ZDNet
ZDNet is a business technology news website published by CBS Interactive, along with TechRepublic and SmartPlanet. The brand was founded on April 1, 1991 as a general interest technology portal from Ziff Davis and evolved into an enterprise IT-focused online publication owned by CNET...
He hosts a number of controversial writers on his servers, such as Craig Murray
Craig Murray
Craig John Murray is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and former Rector of the University of Dundee....
, the former United Kingdom Ambassador to Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
, who was shut down by his hosting company after Russian billionaire, Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Usmanov
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman.According to the 2011 edition of Forbes magazine, the oligarch is one of Russia's richest men, with a fortune estimated at US$17.7 billion, and the world's 35th richest person.Usmanov is married and is a graduate of Moscow State...
silenced Murray with lawyers. Usmanov
went on to suffer from the Streisand effect
Streisand effect
The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely...
despite hiring a legal firm to silence Murray - which backfired when it became a cause célèbre
Cause célèbre
A is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning and heated public debate. The term is particularly used in connection with celebrated legal cases. It is a French phrase in common English use...
, and the material was made viral throughout the Political blogosphere. Kastelein also hosts Canadian environmental activist Ingmar Lee, and Nick Chesterfield - an Australian grassroots security analyst and activist who stands up for the rights of Indigenous Peoples across the Asia-Pacific Region.
One work from his political photoshopping art collection, called Richard Kastelein's Guantanamo was used by the University of California Davis, for the Center For the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.
Sailing
Kastelein first started sailing on small cruising sailboats in 1987 on a transatlantic trip with a Norwegian crew and spent the following decade sailing in and out of ports around the world, compiling over 24000 nautical miles (44,448 km) offshore. He went on to write a series called, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Seas, which was published in a number of travel and boating publications in the UK and Canada. He worked on The Orchid House, a UK Channel Four film set in DominicaDominica
Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
in 1991 as a 24-year-old captain of 100 feet (30.5 m) wooden schooner Tironga, then the oldest floating boat in the world, built in 1869 in Thuro, Denmark. He lived aboard several vessels while working in the media in Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...
. He has also worked as a charterboat captain, sailing instructor and sailboat delivery skipper for Sunsail Caribbean. His 'hitchhiking' sailing lifestyle was covered by Avantoure Magazine in 2009. Kastelein built a 1.2 million dollar catamaran with Avante Yachts in Brazil in 2004.
Journalism
Richard Kastelein's journalism career started in the Northern Press in Fort Smith, Northwest TerritoriesFort Smith, Northwest Territories
Fort Smith is a town in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located in the southeastern portion of the Northwest Territories, on the Slave River and adjacent to the NWT/Alberta border.-History:Fort Smith's history began because of the Slave River and the vital link...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, under the tutelage of Slave River Journal's Publisher Don Jaque and editor Liz Crompton. He then continued in the Caribbean as English editor at St. Martin's Week in French Saint Martin
Saint Martin
Saint Martin is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km2 island is divided roughly 60/40 between France and the Kingdom of the Netherlands ; however, the Dutch side has the larger population. It is one of the smallest sea islands divided between...
, Features editor at Today Newspaper in Dutch Sint Maarten, and was managing editor of What's ON magazine in the Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...
. He's a member of Wired Journalists and Editor at Large for Travolon Online - a trilingual B2B travel publication based in Brussels, Belgium
Social Media
Kastelein first got a taste of social mediaSocial media
The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
was while building an early internet portal for the Caribbean in 1997 at suchislife.com. He added on a free Bravenet forum to the site and watched while thousands of tourists started to comment on their trips to the islands. In 2003, he launched Expat Forums Online for English speakers in Europe with American expatriate Jason Goecke - and they voluntarily managed the community for three years further - which went on to over 350,000 comments and posts over the years. He has been consulting on and speaking in the social media space since 2005. Kastelein's Social Media Dictionary compiled at Expathos was used by author Joel Postman in his award winning book SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate