Archive for February, 2009

This is interesting, how the move to low cost commodity technology, in this case Linux, has resulted in the potential for far less privacy and data security. There’s a lot of useful stuff available for the eavesdropping. Email, raw newsfeeds, entertainment broadcasts, government communications and so on. All this is an open secret in the [...]

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Make a 16% Gain on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Average Intelligence is Enough
Read more on Linux, Intelligence at Wikinvest

I don’t think this is such a good idea. What it leads to is artificial inflation of followers that disrupts algorithms for determining influence (yeah they are pretty weak right now but constantly improving). It also leads to the most popular profiles benefiting from the law of accelerating returns and that’s not the meritocracy that [...]

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Daily ETF Trend Report – Currency
Read more on Abc Communications, Inflation at Wikinvest

Let’s hope this is true. Automobiles are a platform for innovation for technology companies just as is the case with other tech platforms, but far from being open source or even documented, a lot of the inner control logic for automobile electronics has to be reverse engineered. Standardizing automobile operating systems not only decreases the [...]

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Lose $50m a year and still not profitable… sounds more like a startup than a 143 year old newspaper. In a posted statement, Hearst said if the savings cannot be accomplished “quickly” the company will seek a buyer, and if none comes forward, it will close the Chronicle. The Chronicle lost more than $50 million [...]

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Pension fund kickback accusation leveled in Albany
Shadow Inventory
This Time ISN'T Different
Read more on Chronicle at Wikinvest

19Feb

Thank You Chris Shipley

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Today it was announced that my good friend Matt Marshall is taking over the executive producer position for the DEMO conference. We all owe Chris Shipley a debt of gratitude for producing on of the best emerging technology events for the last 13 years. She has been tireless in her efforts and year over year [...]

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Watcher's Council 'MSM gets to work' Edition (Week of May 13, 2013)
The Next Kent State Massacre
Market Outlook
Read more on Hutchison Whampoa at Wikinvest

18Feb

Wood Shavings

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

I just like the image, no message or meaning.

Hey what’s a few errors, right… I mean except for the numbers, why they took TARP money, how they used it, and misreporting the stability of Wells, he got everything else right. Jon Carroll’s column Wednesday on Wells Fargo & Co. contained several inaccuracies: — The column reported that Wells lost $255 billion in the [...]

12Feb

Step up to the Trough

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Want to see what cities all around the country are salivating to spend your taxpayer money on once the spendulus bill is signed into law? My favorite is the Boulder, CO request for $6m to convert 60 hybrid vehicles to plugins… zero jobs created and at a cost of $100,000 per car. StimulusWatch.org was built [...]

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60 Billion Barrels for Encana (NYSE:ECA)
60 ways the government wastes your money!
When Should You Start Collecting CPP?
Read more on Four Seas Food Inv, China Cord Blood Corp at Wikinvest

12Feb

Lincoln’s Birthday

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Lot’s of commentary about Abraham Lincoln today in light of President Obama’s election. One of my favorite retrospectives of Lincoln is this video because it has great images of Lincoln’s time and the story told is accurate on many levels which reminds us all that leadership is not about popularity but about conviction of purpose [...]

Early last year Rochester, NY based Techrigy launched SM2. Dubbed a social media monitoring service, SM2 is representative of a growing class of services that are going beyond Google Alert type filters to a comprehensive monitoring solution that aggregates content from a virtually unlimited number of network sources. As an aside, Google News Alerts has [...]


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