October 2009
41 posts
NYPost says ≈540 cuts at Time Inc. http://bit.ly/8adiE Blodget, the new Statue of Liberty, calls out to refugees: http://bit.ly/JUnGh
Nice. RT @carr2n #Lists are an interesting bolt-on, but yet another metric for day trading in the holy music of the self.
There are 3 competing lists of Wired tw’ers @wired/wiredstaffers @KatManalac/wired @mat/wired. Follow all 3 to make sure you’re covered.
Depressing headline of the morning: “Detroit Casinos Fare Well in Slump.” Gamblers mostly live <50 miles away. http://bit.ly/3LS88m
RT @bgurley Congratulations to Quincy Smith on his new role and new endeavor http://bit.ly/bR4Or
WSJ says former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz being accused as one of the leakers in Galleon insider trading case. http://bit.ly/3Va22T
Feds announce 100 winners of $3.4b in smart-grid stimulus funds. Only 5 explicitly mention EVs in their plans. http://bit.ly/3jkEFb
RT @djsiry Federal Loans to EV Startups: Foolish Bet or Wise Investment? (wired.com post) - http://bit.ly/4xWNUi
RT @markhor Now following @msamywallace tweeting about the response (not all pretty) to her vaccine cover in Wired http://bit.ly/3ZGG36
The danger of India’s outsourcing bet: Bangalore salaries rise to >55% of US engineer’s salary, US firm closes office. http://bit.ly/2HtWOz
RT @stevenjayl RT @markmcc: I liked NYT Twitter story http://bit.ly/3T1asB better when I edited the version for Wired: http://bit.ly/3zt6Rp
2 Netflix/PS3 q’s: Why isn’t Sony Pics in on the party? (Tho not surprised.) Why the DVD work-around instead of Xbox-like embedding?
Netflix streaming soon to PS3. http://bit.ly/29TMOZ Another big move by Hastings to get Netflix inside everything. (http://bit.ly/5MMae)
Demand sees AOL in rv mirror RT@demandrichard As they say, imitation is best form of flattery; im a fan of tim’s also http://bit.ly/1VEX7R
RT @markhor RT @poptech: Michael Pollan “This generation (born in 2000 and after) will have a shorter lifespan than their parents.”
RT @CPA_Trendlines 10 year crime spree in Galleon case! RT @m_delamerced: http://bit.ly/2scnj3 Was the company EVER legit?
If this live up to the hype, I’m buying RT @gavinpurcell Motorola Droid Preview from Boy Genius Report: http://bit.ly/3pcT14
If I’m reading the comments right, Dan Solin’s retirement advice revolves entirely around dentistry? http://bit.ly/e0SbU
Moto Droid will “eat in to BlackBerry sales, Windows Mobile sales, and positively murder any lingering Palm Pre sales.” http://bit.ly/268t4r
Great Reuters feature on Calpers. Fund lost $100b, won’t changed invest strat of vineyard-and-timber loving ex-CIO. http://bit.ly/1KTou1
Netflix #s today: 28% y:y growth to 11m subs. 42% used streaming vs. 22% in ‘08. CEO concedes he’s a threat to cable. http://bit.ly/3VhcWy
Looking forward to @nxthompson + peers discuss “How to survive the apocalypse” at Doomsday Film Festival and Symposium http://bit.ly/k7Go9
RT @KMFaust Hulu to start to charge in 2010. Who will follow? http://ow.ly/vVrN
Algorithm-driven content co. Demand (http://bit.ly/1GGTd3) now offering health insur to its army of contribs. http://bit.ly/4wMW7V. Wow.
Who should run BusinessWeek? Friedman surveys the field — Pooley, Lipman, Safian, Kelly, Byrne — and offers picks: http://bit.ly/39d2B8
Great chart from Meeker on how the mobile Web instantly imploded carriers’ sites. The big winner: GOOG (+YouTube). http://bit.ly/3c3u2S
My latest in #wired: How Demand Media’s algorithm and army of freelancers are turning content creation into a factory. http://bit.ly/1GGTd3
Met with KaChing last week: http://bit.ly/jnxpc. Very interesting attempt to compete with mutual funds via tech-enabled transparency.
What I don’t get about Galleon: haven’t PE shops shown that an easier/legal scam is 1)buy massive stakes 2) extract millions in fees?
RT @felixsalmon @FT Kroll to launch credit ratings business: Jules Kroll, the man who reinvented detective agency .. http://bit.ly/XWybQ
Insider trading allegations cont’d: Intel exec leaked details of Intel investments in Clearwire to HF. Complaint: http://bit.ly/1uV8x
More on insider trading allegations: McKinsey’er inside AMD leaked on client to a hedge fund; IBM’er leaked info on deals with Sun and AMD.
Huge congrats to the folks at 21C in my hometown of Louisville, KY for being named CN Traveler’s top hotel in the U.S. http://bit.ly/1o67K
Whoa: IBM, Intel Capital, and McKinsey execs, along with two major financiers, arrested on insider trading charges. http://bit.ly/bbc6o
RT @AutoblogGreen DOE Secretary Stephen Chu: “I would put every cent into electric cars” http://tinyurl.com/yzcgvga
Comcast+NBCU=Time Warner+AOL, says Jeff Bewkes. @pkafka, as usual, has the goods: http://bit.ly/2X6MBa
Method Man arrested on felony tax charges; he sure could use Omar’s free pass. http://bit.ly/107QbB (h/t WebCPA: still No. 1 in Wu news)
RT @Contrahour Best quote of the day: “If this recovery continues much longer, we’ll all be unemployed” http://bit.ly/gPKTf
Nice, cautionary biz tales: 1)How privt eqty junked Simmons http://bit.ly/otYYs 2)The hidden cost of talking acquisition http://bit.ly/p11xI
2 Big 2 Fail looks good in current VF. Some site should take all the insider books/articles on the meltdown and compile 1 timeline w quotes.