Financial Markets

Jason is alerting everyone who uses Facebook . . . beware – agree.
Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky?
Location: CalaCompound, Brentwood, CA
Date/Time: December, 13th 2009 11:20AM
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Facebook proved again this week that they are either the most
unethical or clueless internet company in the world. An amazing
accomplishment since Facebook is also one of the most promising, and
certainly fastest [...]

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I like Craig Newmark and admire him for what he has accomplished in this world  m
Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
By Gary Wolf08.24.09

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. Photo: PLATON

The Internet’s great promise is to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful. So how come when you arrive at the most popular dating site in the US you [...]

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Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers
Google’s chief economist says executives in wired organizations need a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation.

McKinsey Quarterly
JANUARY 2009

More than ten years into the widespread business adoption of the Web, some managers still fail to grasp the economic implications of cheap and ubiquitous information on and about their [...]

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The Real Story of Trading Software Espionage
By Rob Iati, Partner, The TABB GroupJULY 10, 2009

Much has been made of the 32MB of Goldman Sachs’ proprietary algorithmic trading code (“trading secrets”) allegedly stolen by Sergey Aleynikov, now portrayed in the financial media as the new Julius Rosenberg, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen and John Walker all rolled [...]

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Pioneering work . . .

Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
June 29, 2009

Stephen Wolfram recently received an award for his contributions to computer science. The following is a slightly edited transcript of the speech he gave on that occasion.
I want to talk about a big topic here today: the quest for computable knowledge. It’s a [...]

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A perspective on the use of technology in the battlefield.  Read it here.

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UNIVERSE IN 2009
Is MIT Obsolete?
On the future of invention.
by NEIL GERSHENFELD • Posted February 3, 2009 11:27 AM

 
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger.
Today’s advanced research and education institutions are essential to tackling the grand challenges facing our planet, but they’ve been based on an implicit assumption of technological scarcity — advances in those technologies now allow these activities to expand far [...]

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Reboot the FCC

We’ll stifle the Skypes and YouTubes of the future if we don’t demolish the regulators that oversee our digital pipelines.
Lawrence Lessig
Newsweek Web Exclusive

Economic growth requires innovation. Trouble is, Washington is practically designed to resist it. Built into the DNA of the most important agencies created to protect innovation, is an almost irresistible urge [...]

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 Ole media struggling to re-invent itself – largely failing except Newscorp(Rupert Murdoch).  Seth Goldin, lives in upper Westchester, NY and writes the peice below; not new, well known to the technorati for almost 5 years.

Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn) – Seth Goldin
Page by page, section by section, the influence of the New [...]

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Brilliant idea !
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/

Clean, Safe, Affordable Power 
Where you need it,  When you need it.

Who would have thought that the benefits of generating electricity from huge nuclear power plants…

 
 Clean
no greenhouse gases to contribute to climate change Safe
the most controlled and regulated type of power on the planet Affordable
the cheapest in terms of dollars & environmental impact
 Reliable
Available 24 /7 rain or [...]

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