Here are a few tidbits from this mornings news that peeked my interest: Even Top Quants Struggle to Draw Inflows: Shaken by the market turbulence that began in August 2007, institutional investors have been pulling assets out of quant equity strategies, and overall flows are likely to be flat at best for at least the [...]
Category: Technology
It’s that time of year when all of us football fans get excited and eagerly anticipate Thursday night’s opening game of the NFL’s 89th season. As many of you know, I’m a Giants fan and am coming off a Super Bowl season so there is increased interest amongst many NY’ers as it’s not often we [...]
I was perusing my RSS feeds this morning and came across an article from ZDNET entitled, Inside India’s CAPTCHA Solving Economy. A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer (wikipedia). I had never thought about the potential economics about setting up [...]
NBC sees new media habits form with Olympic games By DAVID BAUDER – 12 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) — About half of the people who are using mobile phones to pull down video or information about the Olympics have been trying out that technology for the first time, NBC said on Wednesday. NBC Universal, [...]
I was digging around Path101‘s website this evening to see what Charlie and the team were up to and dug deep into the Resume Genome Project. What is this? We’ve been crawling the web gathering up resumes and industry information. What you see here is our first take at analyzing and visualizing it. We hope [...]
As I’ve been searching, reading, playing, and harnessing the Internet, I’ve realized that fundamentally, the ‘net is ugly. Maybe this is because most websites are created in structured markup language and optimized for being indexed, but what about aesthetics? In product design, there is a balance in form vs. function. Some products are designed beautifully [...]
I need your help to aggregate the future. Yes, together, I believe we can help create a global database of thoughts about the future. I like thinking big. Imagine putting “futurist” on your resume. Let’s make it happen. FutureMeme.org Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful according [...]
