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Comment on New episode by Janine van Ree

Janine van Ree — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:23:23 +0000

Hoi Wouter,
Ik was net wat op het web aan het kijken. Leuk om dingen van jou te lezen, ga je binnenkort een update doen? Hoe gaat het met Qelp? Op German’s site zag ik net foto’s van hun boot. Was leuk.
groetjes, Janine

Comment on NL government: “Renegotiate WTO agreement” by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:07:15 +0000

[...] It looks like the Dutch parliament is putting its arms around a Dutch Small Business Act now, a discussion I ignited with my June 21 press conference and subsequent reaction from the Dutch Minister of International Trade. Today I received an email from Dutch member of parliament Jan ten Hoopen (CDA) that he now submitted a formal request to the Dutch government through a “motion”. In his motion (click here to download as a PDF in Dutch) he requests “to develop a facility similar to the Small Business Act in the United States” “&with a government target of 23% of all procurement of products and technologies&” requesting a response before January 1, 2006. Taking into account the support earlier expressed by the political parties PvdA and VVD, this is likely to become a serious debate in Dutch parliament. [...]

Comment on SMEs vs. WTO by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:06:16 +0000

Comment on Google and Yahoo in mobile race by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:38:28 +0000

[...] Yahoo seems to make the first move in the mobile race with Google I blogged about earlier. Today news leaked (?) out through the Wall Street Journal that a Yahoo branded mobile phone is underway to the market, apparently for the US only initially: “SBC executives said the SBC-Yahoo phone, which will be manufactured by Nokia Corp., is expected to be available as soon as early next year and will cost $200 to $300. Operating on the Cingular Wireless network, which is co-owned by SBC and BellSouth Corp., the phone will also be an MP3 player, a 1.3 megapixel camera and will have a removable memory card.” So lets see now how long it takes for Google to announce a counter attack. If they want to outperform Yahoo, their phone should be manufactured in Taiwan by HTC based on Googles specifications, support WiFi (enabling surfing on the San Francisco city network Google is bidding for), have a QWERTY keyboard like the Treo 650, cost less than $200 and become available in Europe simultaneously& Looking at Yahoos product announcements lately (widgets, RSS etc.) it almost looks as if they spot Googles next move and then ensure they come with a product announcement earlier. I can imagine Yahoo nor Google wants to be portrayed as a follower in the current combat. [...]

Comment on SMEs vs. WTO by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:13:01 +0000

[...] The Minister of International Trade mrs. Carien van Gennip sent a letter this week to the Dutch Parliament, answering MP-questions resulting from my June 21 press conference. In summary her (Dutch) letter covers three topics: [...]

Comment on Blog family by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:06:16 +0000

[...] We did not meet in cyberspace, but in zoo Dierenpark Amersfoort this Sunday, sort of in the middle between the villages where we each live. We met through the Internet since we are both holding a domain containing our last name: http://www.deelman.net (Bert) and http://www.deelman.com (me). It was quite funny to meet another Deelman as it’s quite a small family and we do did not have any direct ties. Sort of like the excitement of an Internet date I guess? Well, we each brought our kids to the zoo as ice breakers. We both share an interest in blogging, anything related to technology and Internet, we both measure approximately 2 meters and we are both interested in acquiring http://www.deelman.nl which is still unused. Perhaps we should create a Deelman foundation (or business ;-) for that domain, offering each Deelman in the Netherlands to have his or her own email address and blog space… [...]

Comment on Links archive by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:58:06 +0000

[...] Earlier that Friday I met for lunch with Osman Mardin, who supported me while I was conducting a tough financing round for ThreeFive Photonics in early 2003. Guess what? He reminded me that I was his launching customer after he left investment bank Robertson Stephens and started Sardis Capital, his current financing firm. Do I have a preference for selecting start-ups? Not necessarily –although I sympathize greatly with them- but if you award them the business you are more likely to get the undivided attention of the entrepreneur which can lead to more value for money. You don’t forget your first date, you don’t forget your first customer – it does create a special bond. [...]

Comment on Get creative with your phone camera by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:13:19 +0000

[...] Last night I took my son Koen to the Champions League match AJAX - Arsenal. It was a birthday present we still owed him. After we had settled ourselves in the ArenA stadium for the match to start, SMS messages started to come in, from daughters Merel and Fleur and good friend Ronald. In fact Ronald was the one who introduced me to this mass hysteria last year for the first time, when he kindly invited me to the annual AJAX - Feyenoord match. It was fun watching the game with Koen, while at the same time exchanging SMSs with 3 people. By messages going back and forth, we actually found out more about players since we lacked the technology couch-potato-watchers at home have. So halfway the match Id thought it would be fun to send an MMS of Koen with his live comments from my Treo. Shooting the picture and preparing the MMS went well, sending it not quite. After several attempts I got error messages saying that delivery could not be completed (”but well continue trying”), I guess due to either missing handset settings of the receiving phones or compatibility issues between the different mobile networks. So I decided to send the picture as an email attachment from my phone. It took several minutes before it arrived with Merel and Ronald, but it worked fine. MMS-Email: 0-2. Despite all the camera phones, MMS has not come off the ground. I think mobile operators are probably better off investing money in getting email accepted as a mobile application than MMS. The Blackberry success illustrates the potential market. True, the tariffs are not at a premium like MMS. Here in the Netherlands MMS is offered at something like 40 Euro cents per message, while email is billed per KB. However, faster end-user adoption of email is quite likely to make up for the lower tariffs. Uhh&and what about AJAX - Arsenal? AJAX was defeated with 1-2, due to sleepy players in the first two minutes of the match, an unfair penalty and last but not least an arbiter who needs some basic football education This last piece of opinion comes from still famous Johan Cruyff, who watched the game instead of his mobile phone. [...]

Comment on Smart move by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:07:10 +0000

Comment on SMEs vs. WTO by Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman

Deelman.com - Weblog of Wouter Deelman — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:14:46 +0000

[...] Its more difficult in one country than another to do business. Thats the idea behind a study published last week by the World Bank, ranking 155 countries on a set of criteria including Starting a business, Hiring and firing, Getting credit, Protecting investors, Paying taxes and Trading across borders.For 2006, the top 3 countries in terms of “ease of doing business” are New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. The only two European countries who made it to the Top 10 are Denmark (8) and the UK (9). The Netherlands is showing up at an embarrassing 24th place. Any politicians around looking for ammunition to make some business friendly, sweeping changes? [...]