Douwe Osinga's Blog: November 2003

Sunday, November 30, 2003

The Geeks should inherited the Earth

Ever since the first humans started to hunt Mammoths together, the question as to how best run an organization has been central in the think...

Friday, November 28, 2003

Why Convergence means we have to rewrite the law

A couple a days ago , I was writing about how I was busted in an Indian museum for bringing my phone, because it had a camera on it. No came...

Thursday, November 27, 2003

The Florida Google Dance

It is that time of year again. The leaves have fallen, there is this cold creeping in the air and Google has changed its algorithm. Somebody...

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Social Security is broken and you know it

Peter S. Heller has written a book about Long-Term Fiscal Challenges, called Who Will Pay? The basic message is: on the long run we're ...

Monday, November 24, 2003

Google Talk syndication

I created a version of GoogleTalk that people can put on their own websites. It is just a few lines of code and should work in most systems:...

Friday, November 21, 2003

Technology and traveling

I was dragging quite a bit of technology around, while traveling through India; a digital camera of course, a laptop to store and sort the i...

Thursday, November 20, 2003

One to one marketing and unclear markets

Naively one would expect the Internet to make markets much clearer and simpler. Everything is open and out there, right? Froogle and friend...

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Music on phones

Not that long ago, storing music on a computer was something only for the rich music industry. Hard disks were small and CDs large. Harddisk...

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Bloggin from India

Talk about mob blogging. I'm writing this in the train from magauo to Cochin, both in India on my 3650 hunt-pecking the weird round keyb...

Saturday, November 1, 2003

The poor and free market thinking

They're called social democrats or socialists in Europe and liberals in the United States. They're no fan of the free market, they w...