Category Archives: Economics

Conde and McKinsey, you still suck

McKinsey finally finished up their overview of all things Conde. And they missed the mark, totally, about falling revenue in the print editions. Lets go into why.  There are a bunch of very cool bloggers cutting deep into sharing content about what is slylish, literary-ish, cool, whatnot.  We can move on and slowly Ignore Conde [...]
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On Sam Lessin and Email

Sam Lessin, of Drop.Io fame and fortune,  has built on top of drop.io (if I had to guess) a service that allows you to charge to send emails.  Sam’s a smart guy.  One of the few in NY who I can honestly say is well thought out.  We’re in a minor disagreement over a very [...]
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The Paper!

Paper is below.  trust me, you want it this way.  If you feel like the thesis is weak, so do I.  I also know that I went way over the 5 page limit double spaced…
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The pre paper post

Originally it came with whole lots of warnings.  No I’m not happy with it.  It’s hard to write when you are hiding yourself, and have a page limit for a difficult question.  I really wanted a lot of time to explain myself (such a me thing).  I feel like I really do need to write [...]
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Something is disturbing me

I wish I knew how to read the markets well.  Something is disturbing me.  The kind of thing you can’t read but you feel in your gut. There is too much money sloshing around because of TARP. And we are starting to see the first signs of consumer spending. The money has to go somewhere, [...]
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Behind on What I Wanted To write About: The Adobe-Omniture Deal

So on the same day that everyone goes crazy over Mint‘s exit to Intuit, Omniture gets bought out by Adobe. I had a bunch of other things to do with my life (being sad about life changes for one, pack, write, bah humbug), yet I really wanted to take a good look and think about [...]
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WSJ on Web Money, scary thoughts.

So I was sent this link yesterday because of my love of Real Time Economics http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/09/the-currency-revolution/ It’s worth a read and discussion.  There discuss two different virtual currencies.  Two are mentioned- Serious, and Ven.
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From Vladimir’s Blog

Image by ulterior epicure via Flickr So this was a comment I posted on Vladimir’s, a very nice Young Man’s blog, about the fragmentation of the food industry. I was thinking about it recently anyway because right before my younger and only Brother had gone to college*, my only living grandparent had taken us out [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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Smartphone Tipoffs on the Street

Image by runnx via Flickr Currently on the Web, there is a lot of discussion about phones, particularly smartphones. I decided, in honor of this discussion, to do the following today: Go up to a few people and start chatting them up about their phones (particularly if they had a smartphone) and try to count [...]
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