I’m Reading…Yes, it was too cute not to say. 24 days until a new season of 24. Interesting, because it feels like roughly 24 years since the last season of 24. They have a teaser trailer up. More details at BuddyTV.
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It’s hard to capture the delight of a 2 year old hearing the song “Happy Birthday”. Happy Birthday, Jo Jo!
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I am beyond happy to announce that the LinkedIn Application Platform is now LIVE on the site. You can go to LinkedIn right now and experiment with almost a dozen new ways to build and share content with your colleagues and contacts. As you can see from my profile, I’ve already added posts from this [...]
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Kudos to Esteban & the entire search team. We’ve begun public testing of our next generation search engine on LinkedIn.com. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn Search: Finding Just Got Easier As the largest global professional network, we’ve had the privilege of having millions of users enter over a billion professional search queries, and we’ve been working hard [...]
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Just posted the first of my First Spouse gold coins on eBay 2007 First Spouse Proof Martha Washington Gold Coin For those of you reading my blog for a long time, you know a couple things about my history with this series: I managed to get one of the first coins, even though they sold [...]
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The price of gold has dropped below $700 an ounce, and that has a lot of people in the precious metals community puzzled. After all, isn’t gold supposed to be a safe haven in times of financial depression and panic? And if these aren’t times of financial depression and panic, what are? After all, every [...]
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Whimsical pondering on politics tonight. The Conscience of a Liberal has had more of an impact on me than I thought. Let’s assume for a second that Carter was an unmitigated disaster, leading to an opening for a conservative rebirth with a Reagan presidency. After all, before Carter, Reagan couldn’t even beat Ford for the [...]
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News is out now, on the LinkedIn Blog: I’m happy to announce today that we’ve received strategic investments in LinkedIn totaling $22.7 million from market leaders in the enterprise software, investment banking and business information sectors; all of whom believe in the power of LinkedIn as a way to connect professionals and help them be [...]
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Wow, that was fast. Remember when it took more than 15 months for a new entrant to dominate a multi-billion dollar industry with a brand new product & platform? MacDailyNews has a brief readout of some of the mobile stats from today’s earnings announcement from Apple. Some highlights: Apple is now the 3rd largest mobile [...]
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Paypal quietly launched it’s PayPal Micropayments service level this week, and it’s definitely a step in the right direction. It’s a service that has been in testing and research for quite some time, but it’s nice to see it finally launched publicly. Here is the new PayPal Micropayments site, which explains the terms. For those [...]
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I think tonight is my night to catch up on topics that I haven’t blogged about in a while. Why not add gold coins to the list? If you haven’t followed the news, the financial crisis has led to a significant increase in demand for gold bullion coins. Demand has been so high, in fact, [...]
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Yes, I’m tired of talking about the election and the economy. Let’s go back to one of my favorite topics: Battlestar Galactica. We are now exactly three months from the launch of the final ten episodes. They will start at 10pm, Friday, January 16th, and go through until the finale on March 20th. Additional fun [...]
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I have a special attachment to Saturday Night Live, since it debuted the same year I was born. This skit is genius, and summarizes the best financial advice you are going to get this year. It’s called: Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford Scene: a typical American kitchen. A husband (Steve Martin) and wife (Amy [...]
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I normally stay away from politically tinged posts. Tonight, I’m posting two. Call it formal recognition that the McCain candidacy is a lost cause, and that Obama is going to take the White House. Futures on a McCain win are now down to 15.5% on the Iowa markets, even lower on the Intrade markets. That’s [...]
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“You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you.” – Juba, from the movie Gladiator I’ve almost finished reading Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal. I’ll post a formal book review here soon, but right now, I wanted to highlight one of the insights that I gained from the [...]
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