July 2008
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Vanity Fair is running a lengthy piece on the events leading to the collapse of Bear Sterns. It’s worth reading: Bringing Down Bear Stearns: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com On Monday, March 10, the rumor started: Bear Stearns was having liquidity problems. In fact, the maverick investment bank had around $18 billion in cash reserves. But…
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Just a couple of days ago I wrote about SMSGupShup, a micro-blogging application that was developed for the Indian market. Techcrunch is reporting that the company has secured additional funding: Webaroo Raises A $10 Million Round For SMSGupShup webarooWebaroo Technology has raised a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup, an SMS-based community…
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Water Balloon Catapult – Instructables – DIY, How To, offbeat For those times, you know, when you need to defend yourself (tags: fun games project)
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scribus.net | Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing Good open source desktop publishing application that works on Windows, Linux, and Mac (tags: opensource publishing software design graphics dtp free linux apple)
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You Me and My API: The De-Industrialization of the US Economy An interesting way to look at the change that is underwaay in the US today. (tags: deindustrializing, economy, us, future)
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Clash of the Mindsets: How Indian And Western Engineers View the World Differently – Navi Radjou A good read on the cultural/operational differences between Indian and Western engineers. (tags: business economics India Western engineering) How to stop junk mail Some services that will help reduce the amount of junk mail that floats into your snail…
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Since the rumor about Microsoft’s $100M acquisition broke last week (now no longer a rumor, but a fact), I’ve had several people ask me on my take of where Microsoft is headed with this new tool in its search toolbox. First let me frame my angle here. Over the last four years I’ve worked in…
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Given a slow morning, I was just reading through some older Google Reader feeds, and came upon this excellent post over at VentureBeat. Anand Rajaraman is an investor in an Indian service called SMS GupShup, which serves as a Twitter-like micro-blogging service for the Indian mobile market. Why would micro-blogging matter in places like India?…
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Splashup A Photoshop type application on the cloud (tags: editor photoshop online photo tools web2.0 images design cloud) The Website Is Down Pretty funny stuff (tags: video funny humor geek fun web technology website)
