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Preview from Europe: Wild Ride on the Market Roller Coaster

That video is awesome... I ended up on the mans site and can't stop watching+listening. (sorry can't comment on the article... )

Why It's a Good Time to Buy Google

On Mar 22 02:56 PM Paul H. M. wrote:
> - Microsoft owns Facebook, which is quickly becoming the number one
> social networking site. They could use this as leverage to launch
> a competitive search portal.

As long as Microsoft can not produce a competitive search technology it does not matter...

> - Google produces nothing that could not be easily copied. Unlike
> Intel or Apple (even if you copied them, building enough factories
> and delivery channels to compete with them would be very challenging),
> they don't have much barrier to entry for competing products. <br/>
>
> Almost any coder could build a search engine with some type of ad
> technology. All they need is a popular portal, like Facebook, to
> point people to a possibly newer and better search engine.

You have no idea what you are talking about. If any coder could than the amount of search engines out there fighting off googles supremacy would be humongous. Examples: ex-goog team Cuil.com (did not do much did they...), Ask.com which dropped Teoma for Google... etc.

AIG's Blackmail Note

Bonus.. in normal cases, you get a bonus when you realise something good. Overall the AIG guys did not realise anything positive as I see it.. so there should be no bonuses. Simple as that.

How much costs do they have on property, their own, like offices? Why not reduce some of that from those millions? "bonus" money spent better.

On Charging for Online Content

I don't think WSJ abandoned that model out of stupidity, my guess is that is did not have the expected results.
The best current model at the model I know is the free social media one.

Bloggers get the freedom to post headlines and paragraphs on their blogs, those get furled, digged, stumbled.. Facebookers and MySpacers throw in their snippets and views on the subjects.. People looking for full stories visit your site.

Now if you got niche content, like specific financial information for example, you could charge for the hole story/information, while offering pieces to the public, but if you "print" anything that goes in the general public category...

I just read an article 2 minutes ago on APIs, if the paid model and variations would work they would not focus on APIs, rss, newletters, etc. But this model is a good one, used by social media nad giants like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.

It doesn't matter who you are on the net, information sharing brings in readers.

APIs and the Future of Web Content

APIs are nothing new, the idea was put to use by Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, MySpace and so on, from large portals/website to small information based ones.

The success of these APIs is clearly seen, from many websites that show the Yahoo Messenger User's status, hidden, etc. to creating Widgets and so on.

It is just natural that news conglomerates adopt something that is working, because if you don't you lose to that competition which does.

Is Google a Great Buy Now?

You don't need those figures and charts to look into google. The slowing trend is due ot the fact the company has become larger, the bigger it gets the slower it moves.. More employees, new thechnology, research and in some cases aquisitions.

Google is the leader in search marcket for the globe (less china) and is focusing resources in mobile technology fields, social media, etc. Right now there is no comeptitor to breath in google's neck. This means they will dominate the yard for the forseeable future.

The Financial Supermarket Is Dead

Printing money to keep bailing out is like using oil on a wooden leg... There is a limit and the best practice here is to cut and slash.

The Homepage, Refreshed

Rather new to SA but I can say the changes are in the right direction.

Can History Show Us the Way Out of This Bear Market?

The problem with printing money is that there is not way to print trust, in order to back that money.
Would it not be great to eb able to just order some trust... ?!

Each crisis has particularities, so does this one, I don't think too much comparisson to the past will help much. History helps, but don't compare the hell of today to the hell of yesterday and look for custom solutions.

Defending Financial Journalists - and Bloggers

Bloggers are not professional writers (in most cases) and do not work for financial magazines, tv stations, etc.

A blog has a big piece of "Personal" in it si it just natural that opinions in a blog are biased.

When people forget that a blog is a "blog" problems arise, never forget that it is a journal, just like the one people write in before going to bed...

Bank of England Ignites Quantitative Inflation: Now What?

This is not a gloom and doom scenario, this is a smart move.. I doubt other nations will follow this move even though the interest may be high in some parts.

For example countries in eastern europe might be tempted, but their economies are not quite the stable ones, while this would boost exports and loan factories (like clothing where all materials come from outside, are put together and shipped out) it would greately affect their imports which in some parts are much higher than exports.

European Union.. Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the others using the Euro will find it hard to reach an agreement. How could they? Germany has large interests regarding the US, but others fall behind on that.

UKs main export partner is the US, but close in second is Germany. (3% close) This move will bring the pound closer to the dollar and the euro with current rates going at 1.4105 dollars/pound and 1.1234 euros/pound.

2009 Depression Will Be Nothing Like 1929

Hey, first time reader here and will come back for more. I liked your article and I believe there are many interests reagarding this crisis. Know that saying "great fortunes are made in times of crisis" ?

End of the Recession in 2009?

Seems for February the Dollar gained some ground against both the Euro and the British Pound.

Latest talks with China matter too.