Douwe Osinga's Blog: May 2004

Saturday, May 29, 2004

The calling of the Mothership

About two month ago I was starting my working day as usual by sorting through my incoming email - deleting junk that escaped my filter and f...

Thursday, May 27, 2004

A Hacked together tech saving the World

Of course it was never going to be this way. UMTS was going to be big before the end of 2000 and we would all be surfing at top speed using ...

Scary Movie

Was is this image so scary? (via J- Walk Blog ) The fact that a recognizable picture morphs into something unrecognizable, which turns out t...

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

The Free Rider Problem

Quinn has an interesting post on the Free Rider Problem . In any situation where people work together to generate value, a problem as to how...

Sunday, May 23, 2004

My last Google Hack

I'm proudly presenting what probably is going to be my last Google Hack on these pages: Word Color . Word Color takes a word or a senten...

Sunday, May 16, 2004

How not to renew the look of a cell phone

One of concepts that made Nokia great is replacable face plates. It changed a phone from something purely functional into something that can...

Saturday, May 15, 2004

Why George Bush was right about the UN

Recent developments seem to prove that George Bush was indeed right about the UN when he said that the UN had to act or that the UN would be...

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

The Internet Micro Economy Revolution

A perfect market is a market where all parties, producers and consumers, have perfect information. They know what is on offer, for how much ...

Saturday, May 8, 2004

The most succesful economic system

So what seems to be the most succesful economical system right now? What do the fastest growing economies have in common. Hint: It is not th...

Wednesday, May 5, 2004

European Brain-drain

Ever since world war II, Europe has been losing lots of smart people to the US. Right after the war, it was the greater opportunities and th...

Saturday, May 1, 2004

Google's GMail

So I got me one of those new Google mail accounts. The functionality really seems quite nice and feels much faster than Yahoo! mail or Hotma...