Not everyone was feeling the pain of the downward spiral in the mortgage markets. Meanwhile…
Calabasas-based Countrywide, the nation’s largest mortgage lender in terms of volume, faces a lawsuit claiming it failed to warn employees about the depth of its financial troubles, resulting in heavy stock losses in their 401k retirement accounts.
Sounds familiar.
Some sanity.
Via The Big Picture:
We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data.
I haven’t “long railed” - more like I railed long ago.
A bit of a rant (and you’ll have to read between the lines to find any inferred solutions), but an interesting read nonetheless.
Proving you can’t win ‘em all.
Jeffrey Citron did some revolutionary things for online trading, but the luck isn’t coming for upending landline phone service and the spin isn’t too hot either:
First, Vonage loses their appeal in the Verizon patent case; the company’s weak response follows.
Then they lose another patent case to Sprint. The response is even weaker…they appeal.
I guess you have to give them credit for trying, although the remaining customers would probably benefit most if they just handed the incumbents the keys and called it a day.
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It’s eleven so Letterman doesn’t sue for trademark infringement.
11. A search engine says their products are more stimulating than coffee.
10. Everyone is talking about advertising.
9. A website that bashes other websites actually has some traffic.
8. Someone throws free money at engineers, while someone else makes engineering free.
7. Stories come out comparing the latest internet revolution to George Orwell’s classic 1984, and The Wall Street Journal covers it.
6. You read a blog headline, and immediate think…”they’re bashing MySpace, so they must be about to plug Facebook.”
5. CMGI is sucking wind.
4. Studies are published touting newfound, widespread application usage, when it’s really just soccer moms using webmail.
3. A guy sells his company and then outlines why there is an internet bubble.
2. Henry Blodget is saying something.
and…
1. The internet is officially proclaimed better than sex.
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Is this concept going to vet the voting base?
Imagine The Funded with a bunch of 12-year olds around (not that there is anything wrong with being 12 years old - I was once too). BTW: I think The Funded is a good idea, for both entrepreneurs and investors.
Some good points within on the difference between ads within networks and ads delivered via search.
Now if we can figure out where the user fits in.
Who, What, Why
After Facebook’s spring pronouncement that applications “get in but they don’t get out,” chatter about ubiquitous usernames and friends lists in a brown paper sack took on new meaning. Almost immediately, the talk on the web (including here) was OpenID this, social network portability that. The fight to pick vine ripe tomatoes from the walled garden was taking shape. But Google just showed up with a wrecking ball and a reaper. They’ve decided to chase the social graph (or social network…whatever). Maybe “chase” is too mild a term - according to some, they already have the components - all they are doing now is providing tools to release the information into the wild.
There was a lot of chatter over the weekend about this. I’ll highlight…
It doesn’t seem all that tough to do, “out open” Facebook, particularly considering every time anyone links to something in Facebook I’m forced to log in to see it. Hence, I don’t see much, and if a widget that allows me to customize the “message” of some recording artist’s album promotion is any indication of what’s behind those links, I won’t be making many attempts in the future either.
This also brings up questions regarding Google’s plans for rolling out premium Google Apps packages through companies like Capgemini.
I concur. And I suspect there will be a lot more NDAs being signed in the near future - the parties involved need to figure out what to tell those sought after corporate clients once they lift the lid off of consumer data.
Google holds our search histories, our email, our calendars, the view of earth…
STOP! Who the hell is “our” here…you and the mice in your pockets? I rarely search when I’m logged in, my search history is set to off, I delete all cookies when I close my browser, etc. etc. I don’t use Gmail for anything remotely important, and I don’t use Calendar. We’ll just chalk that up to foresight (and I know a lot of people that behave the same way). But, Marshall did hit this on the head…
I think what’s needed is a federated ID system like OpenID to tie everything together, not one corporate body that can already claim near omniscience.
Bravo. Mr. Kirkpatrick gets it very well indeed.
But I’d be a helluva lot happier of they had started with the basic principles and mechanisms for ensuring privacy and announced those first - before releasing working code modules.
Conclusions? No.
It’s obvious there’s going to be a lot more talk about this. Anyone drawing conclusions now is drawing them prematurely. I suggest waiting (and listening) before you decide to export all your Gmail.
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The One Laptop Per Child Project is having a buy one, give one free sale.
Just in time for the holidays, and I can’t think of a better way to get a computer into the hands of TWO children. They should tie the pairs together somehow, so a child of more fortunate means can interact with one who is not so fortunate.
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