Edwin Kuipers is founder of the Dutch internet technology company BuyWays. Kuipers? business leadership brought the business from startup in 1998 to 40 employees and to a top 5 position in the Netherlands; BuyWays now supports over a hundred companies in The Netherlands including top tier organisati Read more...

Edwin Kuipers is founder of the Dutch internet technology company BuyWays. Kuipers? business leadership brought the business from startup in 1998 to 40 employees and to a top 5 position in the Netherlands; BuyWays now supports over a hundred companies in The Netherlands including top tier organisations like ilse media (Sanoma), Delta Lloyd, Shell, and The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Edwin Kuipers now focuses on the explosive growth of BuyWays, and on the business development of Heeii.com. Heeii.com has been recognized as a highly innovative Web 2.0 search service.
The conception of Heeii.com was as much a surprise as the way the service works. Hence the term ?Heeii?. This exclamation of surprise is the 21th century version of ?Eureka? if you wish. Especially the more experienced Internet users tend to dive more than they surf, and what?s more, they tend to stick to a small number of sites they visit repeatedly. Heeii.com helps the user to be surprised by the World Wide Web (again). Furthermore, Heeii.com is always on top, only serves current websites, is highly personalised, and is for free.

Kuipers was one of the developers of an application which was conceived as the most original and yet simple technological innovation on show at CALICO 1997: WELLS: Web Enhanced Language Learning. This Java application gives you desktop access to web-based language tools without having to access them through your browser. The software allows automatic access to established web-based language tools such as dictionaries, parsers, morphological analysers and trims down the content to a purely textual form, thus giving very rapid access. The developers were invited speakers at the 1997 CALICO conference in West Point, NY.

Kuipers earned his Master of Arts in Humanities Computing from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.