Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Oroborous: Facebook turns itself inside out, devours the Web

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This superb article on GigaOm really puts into context what Facebook is doing. Google's search evolution was two stages: 1) Realize t...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Geeks of the world, please help Dilbert!

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I just spent five minutes at the Dilbert cartoon site being frustrated by my utter inability to find a comic strip from a few years ago that...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Running a business and blogging is usually a zero-sum game

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While there are definitely exceptions to the rule -- exceptions whom I would love to emulate -- in general it seems to be true that most ser...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Obama grandstanding while Rome burns

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You might have heard from the President that an historic opportunity exists today to refinance your mortgage. Rates are low, the sun is shi...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Facebook vs. Internet: Advantage, Facebook

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Jesse Stay's excellent post on the search potential of Facebook's Lexicon has inspired me to put down a few quick thoughts on Faceb...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Reality Check of the Day: China v. USA

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One of my great realizations from living in the UK for a couple years is just how utterly the U.S. media lacks any perspective on American m...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Greenspan 2004: Your house will cover your personal debt

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I randomly found my grumpy notes on this whistling-past-the-graveyard gem from Sage Alan in February 2004, and thought it was well worth po...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Geography is Destiny: Religion

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This fascinating images came my way via Paul Kedrosky : I read Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" a few years back, and ...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Euro Update: Bond spreads widen

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I just got back from a business trip to Europe, and I heard a lot of confirming evidence that the Euro is headed for serious trouble. I thi...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Goodbye, Euro: Jim Rogers is 7X too optimistic

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My top prediction for 2009 is the collapse of the Euro. I think it is a near certainty that within three years, the Euro will no longer ex...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

The problem with partial transparency

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Kevin Drum posted an interesting piece about the somewhat creepy public mapping of California Prop. 8 donors : This sort of thing has been p...
Friday, December 26, 2008

Visions of the Future: Fred Wilson sees commerce, I see war

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As a VC, Fred Wilson is focused on the entrepreneurial opportunity in the commercial part of the spectrum . His take on what sort of interr...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Bob, the word you're searching for is 'Interregnum'

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Robert X. Cringely, in his last PBS column : The world is unsettled. It's not just this damned financial nightmare we have to deal with ...

China May Fall: The Next Big Problem Is Political Risk

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We're finally to the point in this unfolding economic crisis where most people are seriously willing to engage with the topic of whether...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

Calling All Pirates!

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An article I read on Bloomberg today sent of all of my "looming unintended consequences" radar into turbo overdrive. It's ab...
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