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Tuesday April 27, 2010 The licensing rights for the Peanuts Gang has been sold for $175 M. I make this post as a socionomic observation. Market highs tend to be inclusive, people want to joint together. Acquisitions are made, mergers occur, white knights emerge. This never happens at market bottoms when things are cheaper. The…
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Tuesday April 27, 2010 The explosion of the web has given us some very successful ventures and some famously failed ones. Not long ago America Online was stuffing every mailbox in America with a CD urging you to get Online. TIme Warner bought the company and two years later had the biggest write off in…
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Monday Apr 26 2010 This is a good example of how to explain large numbers in short time frame. It was done by a college student. This is a great example of good design. It is simple, straightforward, and makes the President's claim that they are really cutting the budget ridiculous. Make that the last three…
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Friday April 16 2010 It's not designed to be flaunting the wealth you see. Yes this 394 foot yacht ups the ante in the minimalist ocean going statements. Hmm, I have been to sea on smaller boats and frankly would not recommend glass tables, the lamps do not appear to be bolted to the floor,…
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Thursday April 1 2010 Walt Mossberg reviews high tech for the WSJ, here is his review of the iPad. Kindle from Amazon is catching on, Barnes and Noble as well as Sony all have readers out, all are incompatible with one another, hello personal computers of 1981, so if there will be a game changer…
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Sunday March 28 2010 Camera, Gustavson, Todd,ISBN 978 1 4027 5656 6,2009 This is a ‘coffee table book’ large, heavy, and replete with interesting photographs of people and the cameras that took the photos. Gustavson is the curator of the Eastman Camera collection. Naturally the book had the ‘kodak’ point of view. A few observations…
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Tuesday March 21 2010 Another theme of this blog is the importance of Design. We suggested that Design be incorporated into an MBA program at two different schools. It would not be necessary to hire specific teachers for this idea, just start emphasizing what good design can mean in terms of bringing product to the…
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Thursday March 4 2010 The game of Monopoly was a Depression era game. Not surprisingly it dealt with real estate as that was the item of the day. Now comes, Collapse the Game ! Click for a link to the site, one gets a game consisting of blocks labeled with the an apocalyptic event of…
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Thursday March 4 2010 Perhaps I am a bit too negative on Facebook. It is on schedule or so the speculation goes, to do $1.5 Billion in Revenue this year. While Sirius and XM still flirt with going concern ideas, right here on earth Facebook is a bonanza. I mention Sirius, the satellite radio folks,…
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Tuesday Feb 23, 2010 Pearson offers a genuinely helpful excel page at this link. I suggest you bookmark it, I was able to find the absolutge cell refence on the first try.
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