Archive for August, 2008

27Aug

Wednesday Night Poll

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Greatest Canadian rock band ( surveys)

Let’s have a means test based on the consumer’s weight and body fat index to determine not only how much salad they can buy but also what kind of dressing they get, if any. Uh yeah, personally I think we should simply stop trying to tell people how to live their lives. The New York [...]

25Aug

Widgets at the DNC

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Even though I am officially on vacation this week, I did want to blog about some cool stuff we are doing at the DNC in NewsGator’s hometown this week. The Big Tent stuff is getting some great coverage, and our widget is aggregating feeds from a whole bunch of blogs that are covering the event. [...]

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DNC Video and ‘Awesomeness’
The DNC Will Be a Zoo
Barack’s donor list
Read more on Deans Knight Income Corp, New Media at Wikinvest

25Aug

Lowering the Drinking Age

Posted by Jeff as Public Policy

UPDATE: I forgot to post this link to a post on PETA that I really liked, sent by a frequent commenter who shares my head shaking disbelief at PETA’s tactics. At first my reflexive response was against the idea of lowering the drinking age to 18 but after some thought I think I can support [...]

More on this topic (What's this?) Read more on Oriental Press GRP at Wikinvest

Can you imagine dropping $300,000 plus another $3k a year in HOA fees for 250 square feet of living space? A San Francisco design and development firm has begun marketing 98 tiny condominiums – ranging from 250 to 350 square feet – at the Cubix Yerba Buena building in SoMa. [From Home, small home: 250 [...]

22Aug

Driving Hazards

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

He apparently was using his cell phone in hands free mode… no word from Californian State Senator Joe Simitian on when he will be introducing new legislation aimed at this dangerous new trend. On the evening of July 30th, Boppre fell off the wagon in a serious way. It started out with booze and ended [...]

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TV Show: Financial Squeegee Scam
Read more on Cell Phone Manufacturers at Wikinvest

I wrote about PR embargoes over a year ago and my opinion has not changed, this is a stupid PR industry practice that outside of a very small niche serves very little utility. The small niche you ask? Take the New England Journal of Medicine as an example, they rely on embargoes to enable mainstream [...]

21Aug

Intel Debuts Wireless Power

Posted by Jeff as Innovation

This could be huge but before we get too frothy about it we should take a breath and realize that not only will device makers have to build this into their hardware designs, and pay Intel for the privilege of doing so, but with a range of a couple of feet us consumers won’t be [...]

More on this topic (What's this?) Read more on Intel, Wireless at Wikinvest

21Aug

CRM Takes A Beating

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Ouch. It is interesting that analysts are now criticizing the company for focusing too much on enterprise deployments when just a year ago that is exactly what the company said they were going to do. Meanwhile, sales and marketing expenses continue to take a huge bite out of the company’s income statement. The San Francisco-based [...]

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What is CISPA?
3 Overvalued Internet Stocks You Should Avoid Now
Guards Go Robotic in a South Korean Prison
Eye-rolling Bandwidth Silliness
Read more on Computer Software, The Internet Impact at Wikinvest

21Aug

Fair Use: 1, RIAA: 0

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

While I am pleased with this decision to allow a lawsuit against Universal to continue, we’re really not that much closer to achieving clarity about Fair Use in the 21st century. The saga of the copyright-infringing toddler continues as a California court refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that Universal Music had filed an improper [...]

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Should You Sell in May and Go Away?
Changes to Trading Models: Part 1
Chicago Fed National Activity Index Declines
Read more on Cheung Kong (HLDGS), Century at Wikinvest

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