Dion Almaer

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    • Thu Mar 16th 18:22 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Stock Search Plug-In for Firefox
      Good point. You can do this right now in IE (not FireFox) via: seekingalpha.com/plugi.... Follow the install link with IE and you have a new context menu addition.
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    • Thu Mar 16th 16:22 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bank of the Internet Positioned For Strong Growth (BOFI)
      I have been interested in the differences between banking in London and the US (I am a brit who is now in the states). Banks that do not have brick and mortar are very popular in the UK, yet I don't hear about them over here. Service is fine as they partner with banks so you can drop in deposits and such, and can obviously use ATMs. Will they go big in the US too?
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    • Thu Mar 16th 15:27 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Google to Acquire Sun? (GOOG, SUNW)
      Google would be nuts to buy Sun. They are in very different businesses, and Sun can't work out how to make money for the life of them. They have a platform like Java, and IBM makes all of the money from it.

      They open source their app server, and it is hardly used (I know they claim lots of downloads). They put a lot of effort into Apache Tomcat and don't get credit for it. Open sourcing Solaris? Just a few years too late.

      Ouch.
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    • Thu Mar 16th 14:24 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Mabe Agrees to Buy Camco for C$70.4 Million
      test 5
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    • Thu Mar 16th 14:19 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Mabe Agrees to Buy Camco for C$70.4 Million
      test 4
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    • Thu Mar 16th 14:17 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Mabe Agrees to Buy Camco for C$70.4 Million
      test 3
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    • Thu Mar 16th 13:31 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      World Cup Soccer's Economic Impact on Japan + Stock Plays (HIT, KNBWY, MC, NIPNY, NTT, SNE)
      Very interesting. A lot of the world doesn't realise how much Japan is into football (soccer). I remember when David Beckham went on a tour with Manchester United. Absolute frenzy. We are also seeing more asian players in the european leagues, which has the same effect as the baseball players hitting the MLS.
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    • Wed Dec 7th 11:01 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      RealNetwork's Rhapsody Gets Mac-Enabled -- Positive Buzz Ensues (RNWK, AAPL)
      I always think it is important to get Mac support. Although people claim a low % of Mac sales, this is skewed due to the large number of business and utility computers that are Windows (e.g. point of sale units).

      Dion
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    • Wed Dec 7th 00:57 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      How Much Is Slashdot And Thus VA Linux Worth? (LNUX)
      Watching the market trying to guess how much blogs are worth is quite interesting isn't it :)

      Cheers,

      Dion
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    • Thu Dec 1st 16:22 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Internet Stocks News/Analysis In Brief (EBAY, GOOG, YHOO)
      I think that ICANN needs to serious look into how they will lease off the single letter domains. They are worth too much to allow someone with a script to suck them all up.

      Auction them on eBay :)

      Dion
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    • Tue Nov 29th 19:01 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Google and Porn (GOOG)
      David,

      You have hit the nail on the new Google Porn project. They have the tech to stop anything X-rated to get through their systems, including Google Images.

      Imagine if they created porn.google.com that flipped the bit the other way and you ONLY got XXX content :/

      Dion
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    • Wed Nov 16th 10:30 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Google Base Goes Live: Reactions (GOOG, EBAY, MNST)
      What strikes me about Google Base is visable on the home page. Compare base.google.com to craigslist. One feels like a community, the other feels like a machine :)
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    • Mon Nov 14th 11:58 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Google vs. Microsoft (GOOG, MSFT)
      Very interesting content. Michael's view ties a little into what I find important. Everyone talks about "open source", but I care more about "open data" when selecting products.

      An example is in the software bug tracking world. Some of the open source (and commercial) products make it very hard to get access to the data, and you have to reverse engineer to work out exactly what is there. This makes you locked in.

      In comparison, a commercial product called JIRA isn't open source, but the data is VERY open. You can export everything, details are there on the formats, and thus YOU the consumer own the data.

      The next revolution would be in opening up all of the data, although since that is where the power is, it will be a tough sell :)
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    • Sat Nov 5th 16:16 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Full Transcript of Netflix’s 3Q05 Conference Call — Q&A (NFLX)
      I was interested to read about the TiVo work (and that there is basically nothing being done). I was really hoping for a killer collaboration between the two. As with all of this, content providers are king, which has been holding back the entire VOD sector for a decade :(
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    • Tue Oct 25th 16:01 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sell-Side Reaction to Google's 3Q05 Results - Mark Mahaney, Citigroup (GOOG)
      Amr Awadallah isn't jumping for joy about GOOG like the majority :)

      He believes that Wall Street is buying the Google Growth Lie.

      In his piece he talks about how the growth that Google is showing isn't natural, and gives us another perspective.
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