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That Stagflation Show

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Last Friday’s market rout in employment, oil, the dollar and stocks was not the end of the world, but it is a warning. The message is that the current Washington policy mix of easy money and Keynesian fiscal “stimulus” is taking us down the road to stagflation.

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OPEC sees no need to pump more after price surge

Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »

OPEC members saw no need on Sunday to pump more oil in response to last week’s double-digit surge in oil prices to over $139 a barrel that top exporter Saudi Arabia described as unjustified.

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Web 2.0 fails to produce cash

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 2, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Many members of the Web 2.0 generation of internet companies have so far produced little in the way of revenue, despite bringing about some significant changes in online behaviour, according to some of the entrepreneurs and financiers behind the movement.

The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning such sites into money-makers. Together with the US economic downturn and a shortage of initial public offerings, the failure has damped the mood in internet start-up circles.

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Oil’s perfect storm may blow over

Posted in Uncategorized, Wireless, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »

The perfect storm that has swept oil prices to $132 a barrel may subside over the coming months as rising crude supply from unexpected corners of the world finally comes on stream, just as the global economic downturn begins to bite.

The forces behind the meteoric price rise this spring are slowly receding. Nigeria has boosted output by 200,000 barrels a day (BPD) this month, making up most of the shortfall caused by rebel attacks on pipelines in April.

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The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect

Posted in Market research, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »

It was bound to happen. The Web 2.0 community have long been all open and for sharing of information. That was until today, when face book banned Google Friends connect to harvest information and share from FaceBook.

Here is one of the seven paragraphs they posted as a response to this shift: “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.”

This is only natural, the integrity of the individual must come first – even if information is free – the risk for backlashes is far to greater then the service enablement. I am sure that this is just a beggining of what to come.

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