In a podcast published a few weeks ago, NPR Moneys interviewed Niall Ferguson (author of The Ascent of Money,). I summarized below some of the key ideas highlighted in the discussion: Bank assets. Most of those assets are banks loans. It’s the money banks lent to their clients. This means bank customers’ liabilities. Bank assets [...]
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ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging
Published by January 8th, 2008 in Blog, Software and Web. 0 CommentsI just came accross ScribeFire a Firefox extension that allows to blog when browsing a web Page. This is very convenient. For instance, now i’m browsing the Getting Starting Page while I’m writing this post. ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging via kwout Powered by ScribeFire.
Webware published a very good introduction to Facebook: Newbie’s guide to Facebook. This introduction gives you: A definition of what is FB The way to setup an account/Profile Advices on security/Privacy settings A definition of Poking and how to use it Advices on the way to share information with friends A short description of the [...]
Marc Andreessen highlights in this post regarding Microsoft investment in Facebook that in the software industry, it is possible to say something at the beginning of the month and to act at the end of the month in contradiction with the previous statement: October 2: Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, believes that the craze for [...]
Another example of ubiquitous blog usage is shown by Marc Andreessen which uses his blog to post job posting.
Mashable published a handy list of tools for LinkedIn. Those tools are mainly plugins or widgets to grab your LinkedIn profile and display it on your blog or on Facebook.
snarkerati published a great list of 50 Dystopian Movies. Their definition of a dystopia is: A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis or complete opposite of a utopia, an ideal world with a perfect social, political and technological infrastructure. Therefore a dystopia is an imaginary place or state in which the condition [...]
Switch to K2 WordPress Theme
Published by September 17th, 2006 in Blog, Software and Web. 0 CommentsToday I installed the K2 version 0.91 WordPress Theme. It has a feature out of the box that I really like: Random header image. I’m still configuring it. I discovered that there are many mods also.
Sign-up new writely account is open since yesterday (August 17th 2006). Then I sign-up for a new account and trying to publish to my WordPress blog using writely. The interface is simple yet full of features. There are 2 levels of menu at the top. The features that I found interesting are: The ability to [...]
