August 2010
4 posts
Aug 26th
“they have for years used advanced detection techniques devised by the US...”
– How hedge funds analyze your earnings calls | IR Web Report
Aug 20th
“We’ve underinvested severely, for example, in next-gen transportation and...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
Aug 18th
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Aug 15th
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July 2010
8 posts
“Oppenheimer: “We do not create a shortage for buzz. I don’t know...”
– Apple to analysts: Supply issues ‘a good problem to have’ | Technology | guardian.co.uk lol
Jul 26th
“With stellar credit and a solid job, Dr. Budde said she had been notified via...”
– Seeking a Mortgage? Don’t Get Pregnant - NYTimes.com Sickening. I’m gonna get involved in some disruptive fin svcs company at some point or another.  Walk the talk, ya know?
Jul 20th
Scott Adams Blog: High Ground Maneuver 07/19/2010 →
This is a pretty great analysis…
Jul 20th
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“I can’t help but see this move in the context of the slow but steady...”
– A VC By far the most interesting take on this event…
Jul 14th
1 note
“Let’s say you want a loaf of bread. How many of us will pay an extra...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration
Jul 13th
2 notes
“Schmidt noted that Google and Apple still have important partnerships in various...”
– Google’s Schmidt undaunted by Apple or Facebook | Reuters I hope that all the echo chamber tech bloggers take notice of this comment.  However I’m sure they won’t ;-)
Jul 9th
“GDP alone doesn’t, hasn’t — and won’t — create incentives for...”
– Real Prosperity Doesn’t Come From Stimulus — Or Austerity - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
Jul 9th
“Government regulators, retailers, manufacturers and consumer experts are...”
– Officials worry about consumers lost among the recalls Privatize gains, socialize losses, rinse, repeat…
Jul 2nd
1 note
“We think now is the right time to join with Amazon because, quite simply, every...”
– Woot’s Deal Of The Day: Woot! — Amazon Buys It. Price? $110 Million Genius
Jul 1st
June 2010
5 posts
“It is clear that the Framers … counted the right to keep and bear arms...”
– Supreme Court rules that all Americans have fundamental right to bear arms Note that the Framers also agreed that slaves counted as three-fifths of a person, Constitutionally. I just don’t get the strict constructionist viewpoint…reminds me of people that arbitrarily pick and choose...
Jun 28th
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“In his tweets, Attorney General Shurtleff implicitly references these views and...”
– On Faith Panelists Blog: Tweeting Death - Mathew N. Schmalz Relatedly, I saw someone had uploaded a sonogram of their unborn child to facebook the other day.  Probably a bit much.
Jun 22nd
““We’re just looking to make cool pieces of entertainment and just arbitrarily...”
– Marketing Venture From Bateman and Arnett Takes Off With Orbit - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com Brilliant
Jun 11th
“At work, special information rectangles help men and women silently complete any...”
– Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Jun 10th
1 note
May 2010
12 posts
May 29th
4 notes
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Website Editors Strive To Rein In Nasty Comments : NPR
May 29th
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“If we force hedge funds and the like to compete for talent on a more level...”
– A VC: Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy
May 29th
“I kind of want to be an outsider,” she said, eating a truffle-flavored French...”
– The Ten Harshest Parts of Lynn Hirschberg’s M.I.A. Profile — Vulture
May 29th
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“By the way, I always thought Facebook’s best option would be to sell...”
– The underlying flaw in Facebook’s business model - broadstuff
May 27th
While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is... →
May 23rd
2 notes
Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads... →
May 17th
“The market is, like raptors in Jurassic Park, testing the fences. It has...”
–  Raptors at the Liquidity Fence, and the Big Whoosh
May 16th
Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up →
May 10th
1 note
Facebook's Privacy Erosion Strategy →
May 10th
1 note
The Mating Game Theory →
May 7th
2 notes
Tweet test: “HP and Palm: announcing an acquisition social media style” v insightful analysis from @IRWebReport http://bit.ly/cj9KHI $HPQ $PALMless than a minute ago via webEthan Bauley ethanbauley Twitter / Ethan Bauley: “HP and Palm: announcing a …
May 4th
April 2010
3 posts
“Three years ago at our first f8 conference for developers, I introduced the...”
– Facebook | The Facebook Blog LOL
Apr 21st
“The iParadox is this: Apple should be striving to commoditize products if it...”
– Apple’s Strategic iParadox - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
Apr 5th
“Yelp’s getting its choreography wrong, failing to build a better dialogue...”
– From Social Media to Social Strategy - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review See the diff?
Apr 2nd
March 2010
7 posts
8 tags
How Twitter's @anywhere might kill the advertising...
Previous to the Evan Williams keynote at SXSW this week, there were rumors that Twitter was going to reveal a new “advertising platform” during the talk.  But after @anywhere was announced, there was universal disappointment. That disappointment is misplaced.  Semantics aside, @anywhere encapsulates the major threat social media poses to the advertising and marketing industries as...
Mar 20th
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Nurse Anesthetists salaries now surpass those of... →
jayparkinsonmd: Money of course drives everything in healthcare. The federal government has led the movement to systematically devalue primary care over the past two decades mostly by specialists influencing Medicare reimbursement rates. As a response, for the past decade, only about 5% of graduating medical residents pursued primary care— mostly because they feel like they should earn more...
Mar 20th
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“My proposal is this: if we could disaggregate the logs, while providing the...”
– Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. the Cloud Log - The H Open Source: News and Features He continues on in detail about using little $99 plug-in servers to create a P2P social networking service: And so, basically, what I am proposing is that we build a social networking stack based around the...
Mar 20th
5 tags
The economics behind why attending SXSWi is...
(Note: Revised this slightly following SXSWi’s conclusion; if you had a great time and feel ready to take over the world, this post may, in part, explain why that is ;-) John Furrier had a typically great post over on SiliconAngle on Friday, riffing on the latest Twitter research du jour. The original coverage on Mashable reports on the facts, but John expands on the larger point…and...
Mar 13th
5 notes
“Scientific specialisation is now so extreme that even people studying...”
–  The trouble with trusting complex science | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian Interesting take for sure
Mar 13th
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Mar 11th
1 note
“But in the announcement about the HTC lawsuit, he has a different perspective:...”
– Would 2010 Steve Jobs Sue 1996 (Or 1984) Steve Jobs Over Patents? | Techdirt Nuff said on that.  See Fred Wilson/USV posts on software patents and startup litigation for the rest of the story.
Mar 4th
February 2010
4 posts
Op-Ed Contributor - Free viral videos -... →
Here’s the most lucid piece on the music industry I’ve read in a few years.  Not surprisingly, from an a) actual musician with b) experience in the trenches, not making it who c) eventually got signed to a label and d) experienced some success due to a social media/”viral” marketing wave. This is the profile of someone who should be listened to.  Great stuff!
Feb 21st
Feb 20th
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Here’s a little flavor from work…Prith Banerjee of HP Labs talks to McKinsey…
Feb 3rd
The News From Grammytown →
Feb 3rd
January 2010
5 posts
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This is so hilarious.  I had a chance to see Aziz a few times at Largo but I blew it, one of my [few] LA regrets…
Jan 22nd
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The Scale Every Business Needs Now →
Jan 22nd
3 notes
I link therefore I am - and other myths of the... →
Jan 20th
No one makes money off of creating private... →
Jan 20th
The Real Criticisms of Social Media →
Jan 7th
1 note
December 2009
10 posts
“Everybody views it as a terminal career decision if you get it wrong,” said...”
– Netflix Envoy Pitches Online Films to Wary Studios (Update1) - Bloomberg.com Great article…it’s tough to make changes when you’ve had it sooooo good. For a truly incredible look at the history of the film business and its various revenue models, I recommend The Big Picture by...
Dec 29th
2 notes
“The point is simple: assuming only x% of people will become active prosumers...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration Bubblegen posts are like fine wine
Dec 10th
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