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Paper by Rick Harbaugh and Theodore To on game theory, price and status signaling, and incentives for and against disclosing “good news”, such as academic degrees, career accomplishments, restaurant cleanliness. In general the “worst” member of a bracket
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Dan Kaminski’s editorial in February 2006 Virus Bulletin on the problematic relationship between antivirus software vendors and DRM-using media companies, following the recent Sony rootkit episode.
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Presentation slides drawing an analogy between the evolution of the electrical power business (small local generators replaced by large plants with distribution grid) and IT services today.
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Pointer and comments on LG Electronic’s anti-avian-flu air conditioner, featuring a kimchi-extract-coated filter.
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Final paper by Ed Felten and Alex Halderman reviewing the Sony DRM rootkit incident
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Podcast with Zopa founders James Alexander and Dave Nicholson, on peer to peer lending, new competitors Prosper and Mogo, and who participates in peer to peer lending.
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Report from West Point (US Military Academy) reviewing strengths and weaknesses of Al-Qaida, with English translations (from Arabic) of captured source documents.
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Javascript library for building web user interfaces, now available from Yahoo under open source (BSD) license.
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A collection of design patterns which recur in web user interfaces, with examples. Now available as open source (BSD) license.
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Cover article detailing a generally negative view of GOOG share price (currently around $360) based on growing expenses, click fraud and ad pricing issues, and reversion to the mean multiple of the peer group, to $188 ish per share.
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On Blue Nile and FTD quarterly conference call comments on inflation in click bid fees for paid search at Google, and declining effectiveness of paid search for driving business to their sites.
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Henry Blogdet with a little more on Blue Nile, FTD conference call comments on increasing per-click costs and shift away from paid search due to decreasing effectiveness.
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Corporate business humor, loosely inspired by misadventures at Hewlett-Packard and other large companies.
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AT&T is claiming patent rights to coding methods used in MPEG-4 not covered in the MPEG-LA patent portfolio. This would affect a range of new digital video products, including newer iPods.
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Detailed instructions for using RSS and Bittorrent to locate current video programming
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VMware is releasing a free version of their product for virtualizing a single hardware server platform to multiple Windows and Linux server instances. See also Xen project for free Linux-only virtualization.
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Event wiki, with notes from presentations on building web applications such as del.icio.us, Flickr, Mint, and others.
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Create a font based on your handwriting by scanning it in and uploading to their site. $9 to download, after previewing is free.
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Interactive home valuation lookup, plotted on draggable interactive maps. Coverage includes Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Bay Area, perhaps others.
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A review of AOL Time Warner, how they got here, the current business situation, and Carl Icahn’s proposal for dividing the company into four pieces which was presented today.
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Interactive tool for building your own South Park cartoon character, complete with background and props.
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All the commercials shown during the 2006 Super Bowl on Google Video.
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Markets aren’t totally rational. Brian Knutson at Stanford is using functional MRI to study the influence of fear and greed on financial decision making.
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A loan brokering site, similar to Zopa. Lenders bid on loans requested by borrowers, with incentives for social groups to build reputation.
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Detailed notes on installing and using the latest version of Asterisk@Home, which prepackages Asterisk 1.2.4 with AMP (Asterisk Management Portal) on a bootable CentOS CD-ROM. Quick way to bring up an Asterisk PBX on a dedicated computer chassis.
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IMF paper by Kalpana Kochhar, Utsav Kumar, Raghuram Rajan, Arvind Subramanian, and Ioannis Tokatlidis reviews history of India business, education, infrastructure, and development resources during the past several decades, and looks at the future prospect
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more comments on the terrible state of maps for India
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Pointers to and discussion on merits of India vs China development approach, FDI vs domestic investment
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“I No Longer Fear Hell for I work in Venture Capital” – highly entertaining journal of an executive assistant at an unnamed Sand Hill Road firm
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Danny Sullivan on the DOJ data request from Google, plus a pointer to some sample query keyword data from a few years ago.
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Sample search query keywords from a day of searches on Snap / NBCi in 2001. Unique terms only, no IP addresses, and no results data
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Locations of web 2.0 startups on google maps
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Database of user submitted spam blog sites, for use with spam filtering API
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Chris Allen on approaches to angel investing, and differences in objectives and constraints with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
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Entertaining and pithy commentary on Oracle’s recent presentation on the application migration path to their upcoming Fusion platform, with A-team photos and references, and the various unfortunate choices that will be available to current Oracle, Peoples
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Fascinating collection of web sites gone by the wayside.
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A recent study examines trends in production, consumption, and recycling of copper, zinc and other metals, and suggests that there isn’t enough to support assumed growth in emerging markets. According to the study, if all nations were to use the same serv
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How-to guide for building wireless networking in rural and developing communities. Available as free PDF download, or on-demand from Lulu.
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BoingBoing article on new book on rural and developing wireless community networking.
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Tom Evslin on early days of search engines with Gerard Salton and SMART – Salton’s Magic Automatic Retriever of Text, running on old IBM punch card decks.
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List of many places traces of your searches are left behind, and some steps to reduce your footprint.
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All of Enron’s e-mail, online documents, and other digital material turned over during discovery process
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Demonstration of a corporate mail scanning application built on the Enron e-mail database.
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Comments on the Enron document database and scanning using the enronemails.com demo site.
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Keyboard and mouse sharing over the network for controlling multiple systems. This is useful for building multiheaded display systems across a combination of Windows and Linux platforms. Open source. Not a KVM, and network connections are presently unsecu
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Do-it-yourself RFID implant.
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