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Michael Coté: Getting “Love” (and Attention) for Your Whizbang 2.0 Application - Fast, Frequent Features. Thoughtful musings on development models, community-related features, and social marketing. O’Reilly Radar: Publishers Beware: Amazon has you in their sights. I think you have to take what you see in 10K filings with a grain of salt. Financial Times: Google faces loss [...]

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Washington Post: Memo: Laws Didn’t Apply to Interrogators. The White House has finally released the John Yoo memo that dismantled the rule of law to Congress. Philadelphia Daily News: NFL Films is taking shots. It’s sad but not surprising that NFL Films is falling out of favor with the NFL. This is one of those decisions [...]

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Roger L Kay: Apple’s Icarus Effect. Linked as a reminder to avoid anything written by Roger L Kay. Adam Sternbergh: Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like’. Surprisingly thoughtful analysis. WSJ.com: The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns Elizabeth Spires in Slate: Why the Fed had to bail out Bear Stearns [...]

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Paul Krugman: How close are we to a liquidity trap? google-collections is a Java library that builds on the Java collections framework. It’s listed as an alpha product but has apparently been in use in production systems at Google for years. My guess is that Josh Bloch is the creator. Turns out there’s an Acknowledgements page [...]

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Sports metaphors for Clinton vs. Obama. - Excellent top to bottom. I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan. jQuery creator John Resig demonstrates some cool JavaScript programming tricks in Search and Don’t Replace. Fred Clark explains how rising land prices can put mobile home owners in a [...]

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Duke professor Vivek Wadhwa has research that shows that there’s no shortage of IT skills on the job market, in spite of the assertions of executives and analysts. Some other researchers agree:

“No one who has come to the question with an open mind has been able to find any objective data suggesting general [...]

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Here’s an astounding statistic: 10% of homeowners have no equity at all in their homes. Click on the link to read about some of the implications of that number.

In related news, aggregate home debt exceeds home equity for the first time since 1945.

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My first impression of Microsoft’s $44 billion offer for Yahoo is that this is one of those big mergers that’s doomed to tedium, if not failure. It sort of reminds me of HP buying out Compaq. What was the end result other than some people getting a lot richer and a bunch of other people [...]

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As the mortgage crisis unfolds and expands, you see a lot of blame laid on subprime loans, and more specifically, people who signed up for subprime loans. In fact, subprime was voted the word of the year. People are clearly responsible for the contracts they sign, but simply blaming people who took out mortgages they [...]

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Here’s Salon’s Andrew Leonard on today’s 75 point emergency rate cut from the Federal Reserve:

If Bernanke has been “wrong” so many times, was he wrong Tuesday morning? As of this writing, around 2:20 p.m. EST, the lead headline on the Wall Street Journal declared “Fed’s Deep Cut Appears to Soothe Markets.” After falling [...]

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