Financial Markets

    The Continuing Saga of Thomas Jefferson and the Internet Talk Delivered at The David Library Lecture Series on “The Unfinished Constitution” Washington Crossing PA I want to cover a lot of ground tonight, and I want to make some connections that might be new to you. I want to focus on two parts of [...]

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  Google Engineer Accidently Shares His Internal Memo About Google + Platform JOHN FURRIER | OCTOBER 12TH READ MORE inShare142 Google engineer posted an internal memoon Google + that was mistakenly shared publicly – opps wrong setting. This is an repost from a Google employee sharing his insight into the Google + platform and their cloud strategy. My [...]

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                THE SATURDAY ESSAY OCTOBER 8, 2011 Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet Steve Jobs turned Eve’s apple, the symbol of fallen humankind, into a religious icon for true believers in technology. But can salvation be downloaded? By ANDY CROUCH For every magical thing Steve Jobs revealed in his Apple [...]

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From Jean-Louis Gassee Steve: Who’s Going to Protect Us From Cheap and Mediocre Now? by Jean-Louis Gassée Not so fast. Until the last sinew, the last synapse gives up, Steve will continue to influence the company he co-founded and later recreated. Seeing he could no longer ‘‘meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO’’, Jobs [...]

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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 =============================== 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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