I just came across the three-part PBS television special (with Bob Cringely), The Triumph Of The Nerds: The Rise Of Accidental Empires, which premiered in June 1996, via YouTube. I hadn’t seen or heard of it before, so I was eager to start watching it. Though it’s lengthy, I thought it was well worth the [...]
I admire Apple for its imagination, design, passion, and determination. But the thing is, I’m attracted to anything that possesses those qualities.
This morning, Apple announced its “latest creation.” It’s called the Apple iPad. You can check it out over at Apple’s site here. You can read Engadget.com’s coverage of the event here. Some Steve Jobs quotes from the event (via Engadget.com): “So all of us use laptops and smartphones. The question has arisen — is there [...]
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the recently released YouTubeCN.com site: Li Senhe launched YouTubecn.com, a fake version of the Google-owned YouTube.com, on Jan. 15, just days after Google announced that it would consider pulling out of the Chinese market if it had to continue censoring its search engine results. You can read The CSM’s [...]
I just came across a short domain name search application. It’s really easy to use and it produces good results. I found and bought a domain name while using it a minute or so ago. It’s called NXdom. From its About page: NXdom is an interactive search engine for available short domain names. Its database [...]
Just came across Sergey Brin’s (Google co-founder) webpage. You can see it here. Update: And now Larry Page’s (other Google co-founder; pictured below) webpage has surfaced here. Update 2: Just came across Sergey Brin in drag!
Thomas Friedman, of The New York Times, wrote an op-ed piece yesterday which discusses his desire (post-Massachusetts) to see President Obama make entrepreneurship and innovation his top priority in 2010. You can read the piece here.
Economist.com: The Psychology Of Power — Absolutely Wsj.com: The Quants — Formula For A Meltdown
Stanford.edu: David Heineimeier Hansson: Unlearn Your MBA [Audio -- approx. 1 hour long] Charlierose.com: Charlie Rose With Jeff Zucker, President & CEO of NBC Universal [Video -- discussing the recent late-night television issues; approx. 30 min.]
Wallstreetjournal.com: John Bogle — Restoring Faith In Financial Markets Ft.com: “Airplane Pilot” Protocols In Finance
Cnet.com and many other news outlets are reporting that Apple has announced a Jan. 27 event, by invitation only, to “…see our latest creation.” You can read Cnet’s post on it here.
Steve Jobs on Macworld cover in 1984. See all of the covers here.
John Cassidy (pictured below), of The New Yorker, interviewed six Chicago Booth School of Business economists, and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago — Richard Posner — who’s also a Senior Lecturer at Chicago Law School and has taken an interest in economics, in October 2009. [...]
Economist.com: Small business takes a hit Economist.com: Banks and Small Businesses — For want of a loan Economist.com: Asset markets: The danger of the bounce Harpers.org: The Church Of Warren Buffett (via Scribd)
David’s talk from Startup School ’08: Share and annotate your videos with Omnisio!
The Superinvestors Of Graham-And-Doddsville was a talk that Warren Buffett gave in 1984 at Columbia University. From tilsonfunds.com: This article is an edited transcript of a talk given at Columbia University in 1984 commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Security Analysis, written by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. This specialized volume first introduced the ideas [...]
Warren Buffett warned of the dangers of derivatives back in 2003. To read what he said back then click here.
“Google’s Eric Schmidt On The Economy” here. “In Detroit, Entrepreneurs See Opportunity In Hard Times” here.
Yesterday, Google announced that it is incorporating its article-reading service, Fast Flip, into the bottom of Google News. You can read the official announcement here and go to Google News to try it for yourself here.
You can read Netflix’s official press release here.