Monthly Archives: July 2011

About the latest Google PageRank update — [LINK + VIDEO]

Excellent report here. Midas Oracle is proud to have a PageRank of 6/10.

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Bridgewater Associates, the world’s biggest hedge fund, is run “like a cult”, says NY mag. — [LINK]

1,100 employees and $94 billion under management. Last year, the firm put up the best numbers in its 36-year history, notching a nearly 45 percent gain in its most aggressive fund on its way to a total haul of more … Continue reading

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Robin Hanson’s wife sent the ABC News reporters packing. Don’t mention ‘cryogenics’ to her. — [VIDEO]

Contrary to her husband, she is not a publicity whore. ABC News video. ABC News article. NYT.

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Jim Rogers: “Prepare for a lost decade or more.” — [VIDEO]

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Steve Jobs on technology disruption — [VIDEO]

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Einstein’s 23 biggest mistakes — [LISTING]

Albert Einstein’s 23 biggest mistakes: 1905 – Mistake in clock synchronization procedure on which Einstein based special relativity. 1905 – Failure to consider Michelson-Morley experiment. 1905 – Mistake in transverse mass of high-speed particles. 1905 – Multiple mistakes in the … Continue reading

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The relative merits of native and web apps — [LINK]

Apps vs. the Web.

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Roger McNamee on today’s information technology opportunities — [VIDEO]

RELATED: Apps vs. the Web. Beware, the sound of this CNBC video is weak: Post-mortem of past technology predictions: SOMEWHAT RELATED: – Technology Is The New Smoking.

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Roger McNamee on why both Apple and HTML5 are kings of the hill — [VIDEO]

Transcript. http://fora.tv/2011/06/28/Elevation_Partners_Director_and_Co-Founder_Roger_McNamee RELATED: Apps vs. the Web.

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The mock trial of the economists — [VIDEO]

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