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| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 18:10:00 PDT Current Conditions : 76.0F / 24.4C, Partly Cloudy - 6:10 PM PDT Sep. 2 | ||||||
| Temperature: 76.0°F / 24.4°C | Humidity: 49% | Pressure: 29.79in / 1008.7hPa (Rising) | Conditions: Partly Cloudy | Wind Direction: NNE | Wind Speed: 0.0mph / 0.0km/h |
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| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:32:20 GMT WSJ Recognizes T3 in Ongoing HFT Debate | ||||||
| Sean Hendelman has been a leading voice in the high frequency trading debate notably in advocating the idea of an order cancellation tax... | ||||||
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:32:20 GMT Market Follows Through, Eyes on Jobs Report Tomorrow | ||||||
| Holding on for the move... | ||||||
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:32:02 GMT Some Shortterm Bearish Evidence | ||||||
| Im seeing some evidence suggesting the market has quickly become overdone to the... |
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| Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:00 GMT incorrigible - September 2, 2010 | ||||||
| (adjective) impossible to manage or reform. |
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| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 18:16:25 GMT 1 in 7 home kitchens would flunk inspection | ||||||
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| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:44:07 GMT When animal rescuers become animal hoarders | ||||||
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| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:02:41 GMT Osteoporosis drugs may raise throat cancer risk | ||||||
| Researchers say new findings shouldn't affect patients taking bisphosphonates, but said the medicines should be watched closely. Other studies have been divided over whether the risk is real. | ||||||
| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:55:22 GMT Health care credit cards may add to your pain | ||||||
| These days, you may leave your dentist's office with more than a toothbrush and dental floss in your bag. Thousands of dentists are offering patients health-care credit cards to cover the work that needs to be done, with seemingly hard-to-resist repayment terms. If you need care and don't have insurance to cover it or cash in hand, it's tempting to sign up. | ||||||
| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:34:57 GMT No Pampers link to rash cases, safety groups say | ||||||
| Two agencies investigating claims that Procter & Gamble Co's Pampers Dry Max gave children severe diaper rash reported Thursday that they have found no specific cause linking the diapers to rashes. |
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| Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:29:51 +0000 Google TV – Too Little, Too Late? | ||||||
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http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2010/08/30/google-tv-too-little-too-late/
According to this article, Google is looking to launch a a pay per view TV option. Yeah, because they’ve apparently learned nothing from AppleTV’s pay-per-use model failure and instead think they can compete with video on iTunes. Give me a break. No one in their right mind is buying video from DRM based iTunes unless they have a way to make a smooth transition for livingroom viewing, like Amazon and Roku. At least then DRM isn’t so bad as you are not using a PC to watch content. I am of the mind that Google is going to have another Google Wave like failure here as asking people to once again, duplicate an existing service wanting a pay per use model is to be kind, redundant. Bundle this with the lack of a set top box like AppleTV or Roku and this concept becomes very half baked. Most people are not going to watch content like movies or TV on a computer. And even with Hulu, people are trying to connect it to TV sets. I know I did. http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2010/08/30/google-tv-too-little-too-late/
According to this article, Google is looking to launch a a pay per view TV option. Yeah, because they’ve apparently learned nothing from AppleTV’s pay-per-use model failure and instead think they can compete with video on iTunes. Give me a break. No one in their right mind is buying video from DRM based iTunes unless they have a way to make a smooth transition for livingroom viewing, like Amazon and Roku. At least then DRM isn’t so bad as you are not using a PC to watch content. I am of the mind that Google is going to have another Google Wave like failure here as asking people to once again, duplicate an existing service wanting a pay per use model is to be kind, redundant. Bundle this with the lack of a set top box like AppleTV or Roku and this concept becomes very half baked. Most people are not going to watch content like movies or TV on a computer. And even with Hulu, people are trying to connect it to TV sets. I know I did. |
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| Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:33:34 +0000 Twitter Search Getting Shorter | ||||||
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http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2010/08/30/twitter-search-getting-shorter/
Despite the benefits of trend spotting a Twitter search can provide, any results given by Twitter lose their value soon after the person sending the updates hits the enter key. So in response, Twitter is now only going back four days. I think this is a reasonable amount of history for Twitter to maintain. But hopefully, this change will also offer us less of the annoying fail-whale along the way as a result. It’s also likely that the mindset behind limiting the database to four days stems from the fact that data changes, so there is not really such a need for data that may now be dated, by Twitter trending stats. Just one thought. http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2010/08/30/twitter-search-getting-shorter/
Despite the benefits of trend spotting a Twitter search can provide, any results given by Twitter lose their value soon after the person sending the updates hits the enter key. So in response, Twitter is now only going back four days. I think this is a reasonable amount of history for Twitter to maintain. But hopefully, this change will also offer us less of the annoying fail-whale along the way as a result. It’s also likely that the mindset behind limiting the database to four days stems from the fact that data changes, so there is not really such a need for data that may now be dated, by Twitter trending stats. Just one thought. |
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| Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:00:44 +0000 Facebook Live A Bit Short On Viewers? | ||||||
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http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2010/08/30/facebook-live-a-bit-short-on-viewers/
Still, it seems that this article raises the question and points out that it could go either way. The sad part is they even Facebooked the event and still no one outside of some 300 or so viewers showed. Maybe the issue is just poor timing. After all, Friday afternoon for an “all about Facebook” kind of thing is hardly that exciting. Finally, the last possibility for the low numbers comes down to it being a possible bug. Not unreasonable, if you stop to think about it. But regardless, Facebook has had a substantial history of bugs in its past. What do you think? Is Facebook Live simply a snoozefest with no takers? Perhaps, instead, the problem is with the metrics counting the viewers? [Photo above by _Max-B / CC BY-ND 2.0]
Still, it seems that this article raises the question and points out that it could go either way. The sad part is they even Facebooked the event and still no one outside of some 300 or so viewers showed. Maybe the issue is just poor timing. After all, Friday afternoon for an “all about Facebook” kind of thing is hardly that exciting. Finally, the last possibility for the low numbers comes down to it being a possible bug. Not unreasonable, if you stop to think about it. But regardless, Facebook has had a substantial history of bugs in its past. What do you think? Is Facebook Live simply a snoozefest with no takers? Perhaps, instead, the problem is with the metrics counting the viewers? [Photo above by _Max-B / CC BY-ND 2.0]
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