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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Category Archives: Reading
Freakonomics the movie
The movie everyone should have been waiting to see….on your computer before at the cinemas.
In an unusual move Freakonomics the Movie is coming to iTunes first on September 3rd and then to a theater on October 1.
Since I read this book (review)
Tags: SUPERFreakonomics, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, Economics, datasets, innovation, energy, population, poverty, [...]
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Tagged economics, Innovation, population, poverty, stephen dubner, steven levitt, superfreakonomics, trends
My latest read – Cognitive Surplus
Remember the last time you read a great story that you caught yourself peaking at the remaining unread pages because you didn’t want the story to end? That’s how I can best describe Clay Shirky’s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. His stories were coming to a close before I was [...]
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Tagged 9/11, bandwidth, change, clay shirky, college, community, content, copy, copyright, culture, download, downloading, ebook, ipod, itunes, movies, mp3, music, music industry, napster, Network, networking, perfect storm, piracy, sharing, social, social networking, tipping point, trends, youtube
Kindle v3.0 on the way ?
Amazon plans to introduce a new version of their Kindle e-book reader in August. However after a recent price cut just three weeks ago, Amazon is now out of their current Kindle and their site suggests a new model is on the way.
The device is rumored to be even thinner an updated refresh screen and [...]
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Tagged amazon, ebook reader, enhanced imaging, kindle, new model, touch screen
My latest read – The Big Short
Credit default swaps. Those infamous three words. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis is a fast-paced, right-to-the-point story about CDS and the collapse of Wall Street. While recent best sellers have addressed big players and multiple companies involved in the crash Lewis’s focus is just credit default swaps, how they were [...]
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Tagged billion dollars, bond market, burry, cdos, consumers, credit default swaps, doomsday machine, economic collapse, eisman, financial giants, Goldman, greed, lippmann, michael lewis, research, subprime loans, wall street
My latest read – On the Brink
A financial crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson faced the largest crisis in our country’s modern history with a great opportunity. His first hand account of the near collapse of our financial economy is detailed in On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial [...]
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Tagged bear stearns, business, chief executive officer, china, complete system failure, credit crisis, crisis, economy, Fannie, fannie mae, fannie mae and freddie mac, federal reserve, financial economy, Freddie, george w bush, global financial system, Goldman, goldman sachs, Henry Paulson, indymac, john ehrlichman, knowledge, lehman brothers, lending institutions, nixon, nixon administration, reform, regulatory powers, Stearns, too big to fail, Treasury, treasury secretary, united states treasury, wall street, watergate, watergate scandal
My latest read – House of Cards
After ripping through Too Big to Fail it seems natural to continue understanding the collapse of Bear Stearns with House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street to get a bit under the hood of how the collapse of Wall Street almost killed our economy. The book’s focus is [...]
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Tagged bear stearns, capitalistic economy, change, chase, federal reserve, filing chapter 11, financial marketplace, house of cards, hubris, jpmorgan, jpmorgan chase, nuclear option, perfect storm, Stearns, stock, stock price, too big to fail, wall street, wall street executives, William Cohan
Amazon’s Kindle capitulation ?
Want to confuse customers? How about taking the “if ya can’t beat`em, join`em” approach….
I wonder what Bezos thinks about when you pull this type of capitulation. I cannot help but wonder about Amazon’s own statement: NO KINDLE REQUIRED. If anyone sees this add and is deciding which to choose, this move by Amazon cements the [...]
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Tagged amazon, apple, capitulation, change, content, ebook, ereader, ipad, kindle, Reading, Tablet, tipping point, trends
Sports Illustrated on the iPad ?
In January Time Inc., the publisher of Sports Illustrated showed off their own tablet highlighting a future issue of SI for tablet users. I immediately questioned their “announcement” to produce their own tablet.
Clearly the business model for ANY publisher to develop a tablet is a mistake with the marketplace is its infancy. The internet forced [...]
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Tagged apple, business model, change, content, content providers, ebook, future, Innovation, ipad, itunes, marketplace, publishing, sports illustrated, time inc, trends, wireless
Most Dangerous Man in America ?
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Tagged book secrets, dangerous man, daniel ellsberg, documentary, governments, memoir, nixon, pentagon, pentagon papers, sensation, vietnam, watergate