Since I’m a general know-it-all, and like unlike most people do not have problems managing finances, people ask me about real estate issues a lot.
If they have a decent attention span and live in Seattle, I point them to the Seattle Bubble Blog. It does a great job of debunking a lot of the fluff [...]
Category Archives: Economics
Real Estate
July 28, 2008 – 4:08 am
Amazon Kindle Launch
November 21, 2007 – 6:02 am
The media blitz over the Kindle is really excessive.
“Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device” (Amazon)
I think it’s great that someone finally found a way for newspapers to preserve their readership, but by getting people to buy a $400 brick with EVDO where they can download books? $10 ebook downloads? I’m curious to see who is [...]
Grumble
November 3, 2007 – 7:31 pm
Whenever I try to get a cell phone, it always ends up being a circus.
For instance earlier today I ordered the previously mentioned Nokia N95. I must now reject receiving it because this phone is going to be out in a couple of weeks.
From the product description:
Uses 3.5G wireless technology for easy, convenient Internet browsing
Features [...]
Seattle Housing
October 13, 2007 – 12:31 pm
More real estate agents.Everything was gravy for people selling houses in the last few years due to large margins of profit for sellers and the greed for easy “houses never lose money” investments for buyers…. You need to embrace them or be left behind.I believe that these high margin sales people will get a bit of a reprieve from online social networking in that they will be able to capitalize on those who are online and use it socially, but not familiar with it enough to find tools toI find it amusing when juvenile mentalities are so commonplace in consumer facing business.
Black white and the company store of the new century
April 24, 2006 – 11:33 am
Hacktivism and corporate culture seem to be more at odds than ever.
World Economic Forum: Digital Future [Jan 27th, 2006]
February 24, 2006 – 8:30 pm
On C-Span, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland played host to :
Chambers [Cisco]
Gates [Microsoft]
Schmidt [Google]
Zennstrom [Skype] and discussion lead by
Moore [TCG Advisors]
They were talking about technology, their thoughts on the direction of technology, and (of course) shameless pandering of their products.
c-span program description link
They had some interesting points to make and a [...]
