Jonathan Swift

News Faster than News Outlets: Why the Internet (and Twitter) Wins

I cannot believe that intelligent people think it is important to get news about a celebrity 45 minutes earlier than they could get it elsewhere, perhaps then more accurately.

Perhaps for financial news it could be important if you are a stock day trader, but give me a break... why does it matter otherwise?

Google: How One Wedding Video Shows YouTube's Potential

I cannot believe how repressed are those who found this delightful wedding entrance video as objectionable and especially those who found fault with these friends talents as dancers! Lighten up! This was a major departure from the usually joyless church ceremony. It is a celebration of the occasion of marriage instead of a solemn and utterly predictable "Here comes the bride."

Search Engine Wars: Bing Gets More 'Eye Time' than Google

Is this a joke?
Let's see:
Who funded this study, Microsoft or some ghost company?
How were the 12 people selected in detail? Families of MSFT?
Who designed the questionnaire? Who monitored the test?
The error range for a sample of 12 is over 3.4!
Laughable.

No direct connection with either company, but I actually do own more MSFT than GOOG.

Eye on Financial ETFs this Earnings Season

My guess at 2 AM EDT Sunday (8 PM Hawaii time Saturday) is that the Monday market will open with lots of buying and by mid day will sell off. Leveraged long index ETFs (BGU and FAS) will start higher at the open and then fall before the end of trading on Monday. Just the reverse for leveraged short index funds (SDS).
Why am I going out on this limb? Maybe I'm a masochist, but it's actually an attempt to discipline myself to be more cautious about my enthusiastic prognostications. If the above predictions work out to be prescient, then I invite all readers to send me lots of money to start my own hedge fund.

Sony Partners with Google to Top Amazon's e-Book Catalog

Gilbert's article and reader comments above are the best use of this medium that I've ever seen: intelligent, articulate, informative and useful. (Hopefully this will get listed before some juvenile blathering comment appears above that makes me sorry.)
I've come fairly close to giving up on these pages of blog commentary as a Tower of adolescent Babel; this commentary has rejuvenated my interest... This makes me think of the classic women's comment that "you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a Prince." Thanks very much to jim carey and AReader.

Pequot Capital: Yet Another Hedge Fund Buying Gold

What fools these mortals be!
Yes there will be inflation sometime in the next few years.
But what glitters is not gold before 2011.
Commodities other than gold will boom way before then.

The Shadow knows!

36 Opportunities for the Beginning of the Bull

Possibly useful suggestions, but very pompous and self-centered commentary... including those comments above from sycophants.
Does anyone follow the profit/loss history of these blog commentaries?
I'd like to see the performance record of the above recommendations in about a year.

13 Ways to Transform YouTube into a Profitable Business

OK! Wild conjecture for possible revenue producing procedure. How about setting up a contest that requires video submitters to:
1) select a category for their submission from, say, 20 or so provided;
2) pay a reasonable entry fee;
3) be recompensed down to zero against their fee by a formula rewarding #hits on their video (protecting against multiple submissions from interested parties);
4) be entered into a monthly "lottery" that pays off the top (three?) winners with nice little $ prizes in each category and recognition in a special web page that announces the winners.
My guess is that egoism and desire for exposure from these amateur video producers will draw a big income from these submissions.
This approach could be initiated as a separate contest category, while still accepting free entries into a secondary, subsidiary section that contains no prizes or special recognition.
Best wishes

Why Google Rules the Online Ad Market, and How That Could Change

If the extent of your thinking is limited to information gathering, you probably were not going to add anything of real value to human understanding of anything important anyway. Those who make a meaningful difference, think way outside of that kind of box. The rest is all static and chatter.

A Convert to the Cult of iPhone

Duznt anebody prufrede theer komments fur gramma and speling beefoor submitng them? Yur komments loose there kredibleness if yu come akross as an ignoranus… I shud know, huh?

Why Google Never Really Wanted the Yahoo Search Deal

I don't think this author has a clue about what he has written. He makes completely contradictory statements that make no sense.