What Sounds Better: Skype/Google Video Chat for Free or Cisco’s Umi for $275...
What sounds like a better deal? Unlimited minutes of video chatting over Cisco’s new home based telepresence system called the “Umi” for $25 per month? or… Unlimited minutes of free video chatting on...
View ArticleChanging Education Paradigms: Collaboration is Cheating?
Interesting RSA Animate video on the memorization heavy, fact based dogma that is the contemporary western educational system. I’ve always felt the actively engaged approach (e.g. get your hands dirty)...
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Chartology: The Halloween Indicator vs. Sell in May and Go Away
Remember that thing known as the “Sell in May and Go Gway” effect? It has a flip side, known as the the Halloween Effect, where the majority of all S&P 500 gains have been made between November and...
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The Elastic Spending of Cable TV Subscriptions
When times are tough, it would appear that cable TV subscribers are cutting the cord/cable. Recent data from 2007 to 2009 suggests that Americans are making due with less, so it’s not surprising that...
View ArticleBegun, the Currency War Has
While Jim Rickards doesn’t have as much game as Master Yoda (he’s close), his discussion of the current currency war between the economic super powers of the world reminded me of an infamous quote from...
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Amazon’s Free Shipping Deal Saved Me 38%
Being that I loath shopping, I’m among a growing trend of lazy busy Americans who are buying a majority of their Christmas gifts online. As a personal first for me, nearly all of my gifts will be...
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The New Normal of Christmas Shopping?
It’s official… 100% of my Christmas gifts were purchased online. First ever for me. Toys and Dr. Seuss books for the new niece and nephew – all from Amazon.com. College alumni paraphernalia for the...
View ArticleCommunists Bailing Out Capitalists
This sort of irony is just too good to make up… Fresh humiliation for Eurozone as China says it will bail out debt-ridden nations China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the...
View Article10 Favorite Neologisms & Buzzwords of 2010
I’m a self-confessed word play nut. I love the wordsmith process because it’s a constantly evolving process that illustrates new or existing concepts, that describes the etiology of new areas of study,...
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Middle Class Job Erosion & Mind Blowing Job Loss Statistics
Gee, anyone else see a long developing trend, followed by a step off the precipice here? Image via Chart Of The Day When people begin to wonder why the rest of the world is catching up to the U.S, and...
View ArticleThe Morality Double Standard: My 2010 Strategic Default Prediction One Year...
In my 2010 financial market predictions, I predicted that strategic defaults (e.g. a homeowner stops making mortgage payments even though they can afford the payments, but feel they have made a bad...
View ArticleFinancial Reformation: Banks, Brokers & Middlemen No More?
In an older post that made the rounds with the entrepreneurial and innovation crowd, I touched upon the idea that the Internet is making middlemen obsolete. This isn’t a novel concept, but if you’re in...
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Businesses That Give You a Discount for Paying Cash
When speaking of financial innovation or the future of money, rarely does the downward trend of paying cold hard cash come up. DiscountWithCash.com hopes to change that… DiscountWithCash.com will be a...
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Historical Graphic of Communications Technology & Household Usage
This is quite possibly my one of my favorite chartporn graphics ever. At first appearance, it’s a graphic on tech gadget purchases (yes, FM radios were once considered high tech), but if you read into...
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U.S. Leading World in GM Farming, By Far
I’m probably a little biased in this debate having worked as a gene jockey in my undergrad days, but it’s quite disturbing to see the growing number of U.S. farmland being converted to genetically...
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