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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Thoughtful analysis of the Wall Street crisis
Harvard Business School published a very thoughtful analysis of the current Wall Street crisis in their most recent Working Knowledge newsletter. I highly recommend reading it to understand the background and the events leading up to the current situation.
New Vegas travel site to check out
A friend from grad school is launching a cool new Vegas travel site. Check it out: http://www.vegaschill.com
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Beta test for financial planning site
I’m helping a friend launch a new financial planning website. You can register for the beta test at http://pennypuddle.com/signup.php and the first ~25 users will get a free financial plan prepared. If you’d like to test out the site without sharing your real financial information just register and make up some reasonable numbers. If you [...]
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Photokina’s almost here
The every-other-year giant photography convention Photokina is almost here. For all the gear-head photographers out there this is a great time to watch for new product announcements and start drooling over new stuff. I’m particularly interested to see what Nikon and Canon are releasing in the prosumer DSLR space, plus mid-range HD camcorder technology. Just [...]
NY Times article re: Twitter, Facebook, and why bad tweets are OK
A good friend sent me a link to this New York Times article on social networking. While the focus is on Facebook and Twitter it’s broadly applicable across the myriad of similar sites and services. The piece refers to a social science concept called “ambient awareness”; it’s an interesting idea but I’m still going to [...]
New URL and new look for Exposure Podcast website
We haven’t officially re-launched yet, but the web site for our Exposure photography podcast has a new URL and a new look. It has been upgraded to WordPress 2.6.1 and is sporting a theme that I did some basic customizations to. John (my co-host) and I have started recording episodes again and will be re-launching [...]
Guy Kawasaki on Venture Capital (Part II)
Here’s Part II of Guy Kawasaki’s talk:
Sarah Palin from the “you’ve got to be kidding me” dept