If you have ever been the recipient of one of my email missives with subject This is not going to end well you already know where I’m going with this post. When I stumbled across Zecco recently it was not clear how long it would take – or if it would even take – however [...]
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Brokerages Price War
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH on October 12, 2006 | Comments Off
Zero Commission Trading
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH on September 21, 2006 | Comments Off
Just noticed another advertising play. If Zecco works brokerage firms are going to have a hard time figuring where to cut costs. Zecco wants to charge zero commissions for trades, they plan to make up the shortfall by selling advertising. One of the fellows behind Zecco was an early backer of Skype, Morten Lund, Zecco’s [...]
Science and Democracy
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, POLITICS, VIDEO DU JOUR on June 4, 2006 | Comments Off
Today is 4 June 2006, 17 years post the Tiananmen Square protests. The unknown rebel lives on in our collective mind, in the collective memory assembling at Youtube there’s a clip courtesy of a bit of basic science: From Wikipedia: Although the initial protests were made by students and intellectuals who believed that the Deng [...]
Inconvenient Truths
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, FILM, GEEKDOM, POLITICS on June 3, 2006 | Comments Off
Haven’t been posting much lately due to a busy calendar and I apologise for that. I did have time a few nights ago to hike over to the Sunshine to finally see Davis Guggenheim‘s An Inconvenient Truth, which I was going to review here the following morning. Needless to say, the free time to scribble [...]
Every Breath You Take
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH, POLITICS, VIDEO DU JOUR on April 28, 2006 | Comments Off
R. Glenn Hubbard was mentioned to have been on the short list to succeed Greenspan at the Fed, Ben Bernanke landed the post. The 2006 Columbia follies saw an opportunity, here’s their rather hilarious production: Every breath you take Every change of rate Jobs you don’t create While we still stagflate… I’ll be watching you [...]
Woolsey And Schultz
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, POLITICS, SECURITY & PRIVACY on April 15, 2006 | Comments Off
I just finished reading the Committee on the Present Danger Policy Paper: OIL & SECURITY and The Petroleum Bomb, a small part of my Easter weekend reading keeping me from more outdoor time (I did get a short hike in today, though). Not sure if I agree with it all, but one thing I do [...]
Vyatta Router
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY, TELECOM on February 24, 2006 | Comments Off
An open source enterprise-class router from Vyatta methinks will be a disruptive kick for today’s manufacturers. Just read Om’s comments and agree fully. The scramble for open source in networking comes because two primal forces tearing the old telecom order apart. First, the Internet-based technologies are replacing the closed legacy phone systems, thus helping the [...]
Pandemic Plug
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH, LIFE SCIENCES on February 17, 2006 | Comments Off
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have announced formation of a $200 Million Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund. From their announcement: “We will invest in companies developing fundamentally new platforms for detection, prevention and treatment of global, pathogenic infectious diseases,†said Brook Byers. “More than 15 million people worldwide die each year from infectious diseases. Over [...]
Taguchi Google
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM on October 19, 2005 | Comments Off
There’s an interesting bit in Cringely’s 13 October 2005 piece re Google AdWords. Scroll down past his video iPod conversation and read the AdWords study and the quote from Google: We are not intentionally introducing “noise factors” or any other perturbations in the style the proposed theory suggests to affect near-term or long-term revenues. I [...]
Google On A Point?
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE on August 18, 2005 | Comments Off
Looks like Google have spotted something they desire, why else would they raise that sort of cash at this moment? Surely it’s not to stock the cafeteria with exotic mushrooms. Of course it could simply be a hedge against an expectation/uncertainty of slowing future revenues, however methinks it’s an acquisition, one that will reveal more [...]
Deja Vu All Over Again
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE on August 5, 2005 | Comments Off
Reminds me of the day in August 1995 when Netscape did its moonshot. Jeff Clavier points out Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet’s returns the BIDU (baidu.com) IPO The largest shareholder in the company, Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet, an affiliate of DFJ, invested $7.5M in the Series B, and $5M in the Series C. This $12.5M investment [...]
Solar Raycers Reach Winnipeg
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, GEEKDOM on July 22, 2005 | Comments Off
Raycers in the 2005 North American Solar Challenge (the ~2500 mile solar-powered cars rayce from Austin, Texas to Calgary, Alberta) have made it to Winnipeg. Follow the race via GPS tracking here. For you scorekeepers, University of Minnesota arrived first in Winnipeg, MIT second, and University of Michigan arrived third. I heart this kind of [...]
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