Can a US style financial crunch happen in India? (1)
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When people ask me what impact the global turmoil would have on India, my response is that the relevant question to ask is whether a similar crunch could happen in India. The first point to emphasize is that the US turmoil has nothing to do with CDOs and securitization and everything to do with the bursting of a real estate bubble (see for example this, this, this and this). Real estate prices are sticky (particularly ...
What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App? (53)
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Everyone keeps talking about Smule’s virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link). I wasn’t impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes, which is what I’d call a saturated market. And it gets better, because Sonic Lighter costs $.99. The official Zippo iphone app is free. The basic functionality of all of these is similar - you have a virtual lighter, you light it and when you move ...
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kleinman said:
This is a very good example of using location-based technology to drive viral adoption. When you see people in your vicinity using something, you are more incline in doing same. Even for something as useless and crazy as a lighter app.
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Jonathan Washburn said:
Must read post for AR team.
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puthali said:
lol...just one example of the massive community building opportunities via iPhone/iTouch...
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MV said:
why?
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llopis said:
Those stupid novelty apps don't cease to amaze me!
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Jason Cartwright said:
Astounding pointlessness
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Kingsley said:
brilliant. you can make almost anything more valuable by adding some social
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Sergey Kapustin said:
Похоже на то как горят зажигалки на концертах рок-групп, только в данном случае масштаб "немного" побольше.
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Haidong said:
very nice try
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Graham said:
Clever!
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Devlin D said:
Brilliant viral concept, even if the app is pointless. Viral goes a long way I guess.
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Chris said:
this is ridiculous, but i guess people will buy anything for a buck :P
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Hyunhak said:
이 말도 안되는 라이터 어플이 다운로드되는 이유는?'location awareness 과 social networking/human team building instincts to create a bit of a phenomenon.'를 적당히 이용했기 때문.phone-to-phone ignition(발화)가 키포인트
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jaehyun said:
이거 아이디어 좋은거 같다. 역시 별거 아닌거에 돈 벌수 있는 기회가 있다.
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Satyajeet said:
Nice! It's a great example of how superior design and implementation can even in what appears to be an saturated market with no real need (it's a ligher app!), result in revenue.
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grend said:
THAT'S the way you do it. Fascinating.
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j_b_f said:
There are some weird iPhone apps out there.
Jagdish Bhagwati: Keep Free Trade Free (1)
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As the world's preeminent globalization buff, Jagdish Bhagwati doesn't toe standard party lines. The Columbia University economist, 74, who has advised everyone from the Indian government to the World Trade Organization, is a rare nonpartisan in a field dominated by ideologues. A registered Democrat who is willing to face down the anti-free-trade wing of his own party, Bhagwati is also comfortable arguing against what he sees as the compassion-free laissez-faire attitude exhibited by many of ...
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP (11)
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DEAR AMERICAN:I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.I AM WORKING WITH MR. PHIL GRAM, LOBBYIST FOR UBS, ...
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AriT93 said:
Damn if this don't hit the nail on the head
I made my point (3)
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As much as I felt posting my “Thanks for the Advice on Josh Howard” post was the right thing to do, I have had an upset stomach all day because of it. I thought it was important to point out the hatred and ignorance of so many who quickly judge people they have never met, based purely on soundbites and headlines. If you think you know any public figure based on what you see on ...
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Trey said:
ShareBro memes came from it. Well done, Cubie.
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Kingsley said:
I have mixed feelings about this. Bold, nevertheless.
FriendFeed Dials Down the Noise With Duplicate Detection (14)
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Frederic Lardinois via ReadWriteWeb shared by 8 people In its early days, FriendFeed was known for releasing new features on an almost daily basis. That breakneck speed has slowed now that the lifestreaming and aggregation service has come out of private beta, but sometimes FriendFeed still surprises us with new features and user interface changes. Just a few days ago, we wrote about FriendFeed's new design, which came out of beta today. More importantly, though, ...
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Rakesh said:
I want a duplicate detector in GoogleReader's Friend's shared items..Googlers are you listening
One Step Closer to Space-Based Solar Power (1)
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Wireless Power Transmission Over a Long Distance If space-based solar power is ever to be feasible, wireless transmission of power needs to be achieved. We are one step closer to that goal because of a successful experiment that recently took place. A solid-state phased array transmitter located on the U.S. island of Maui (on Haleakala) and receivers located on the island of Hawai’i (Mauna Loa) and airborne. The demonstration, achieved by Managed Energy Technologies LLC ...
The social web: All about the small stuff (53)
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The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next ten years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We ...
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Kingsley said:
Lifestreaming is one of those things that is going to have a huge impact on the dissemination of small things.
Firefox is missing the point (37)
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I'm a devoted FF user, and have been forever. But the response to Chrome shouldn't be to launch new features. Here's the problem/challenge: when your friends switch to Firefox, your life doesn't get better. And the key to growing any piece of software (or just about any product or service, actually) is the opposite. People will recommend something if adoption improves their lives. Fax machines? Life is better for me if you have one. Fashion? ...
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Andy said:
why cant i automatically opt in to chat with anyone viewing the same website as me, or listening to the same artist in itunes?
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runbuck said:
Interesting point. Features should be ones that have an implied viral benefit (recommendation by customers bring more value to them).
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Bradford said:
This is exactly the positive network externalities that all software companies need to think about creating - not just firefox
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Kingsley said:
This sort of functionality is not super-hard to create, but hardly any apps leverage it.
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b said:
The war of the browsers with some common sense mixed in.
Girl Commits Suicide Over LHC Doomsday Predictions [Lhc] (23)
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Despite repeated assurances by experts that the Large Hadron Collider would not bring about the end of the world, it appears that one 16-year-old girl in central India decided to commit suicide by drinking pesticide rather than face that remote possibility. Her father noted that several Indian programs aired doomsday predictions in the days leading up to the test run, which left her inconsolable. As tragic as this is, I can't help but wonder why ...
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beggs said:
Looser!
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Kingsley said:
Maybe a darwin award's in order?
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charris1980 said:
wow, seriously ppl.
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Arindam said:
lol, choosing the easy path the hard way round :)
Why Libertarians Should Vote for Obama (1) (21)
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First, war. War is the antithesis of the libertarian philosophy of consent, voluntarism and trade. With every war in American history Leviathan has grown larger and our liberties have withered. War is the health of the state. And now, fulfilling the dreams of Big Brother, we are in a perpetual war. A country cannot long combine unlimited government abroad and limited government at home. The Republican party has become the party of war and thus ...
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Kelly said:
this is for you matt
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macshaggy said:
Funny it's Obama and McCain that makes thank God I'm a Libertarian. The reality is both parties have never done anything for anyone unless it benefited them. Antiwar sentiments aside is not the reason to vote for a candidate. Neither is their failed economic policies on either side. If your not for truly open markets then we shouldn't bail out banks or companies that fail it's their fault and the government should stay out of it. Next up is Civil Liberties, if anyone was paying attention to the beginning of the current administration and the last administration (Clinton) then you would know that a lot that Bush push through were made possible by the Civil Liberties suppression that the Clinton administration did. I'm not saying Bush was right but I'm sure am not going to vote for a party that agreed blindly to giving him everything just because it was an election year. How else could Bush have eroded our rights? Because no one stood up to him. Currently they are the ones in power yet for two years they have not done anything except complain. Neither Obama nor McCain are going to give back what Clinton and Bush took from us so get over it.
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Stephen H. Ensley said:
This one's for you Karl :)
Getting ready for Big Bang Day (10)
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If all goes according to plan this week, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will circulate its first beam on Sept. 10 -- a step that's been compared to "switching on" the machine, but that is, as you'd expect, much more complicated than that. Once the first beam is established, the next steps, taking place later in 2008, will be to accelerate and then collide two beams, producing for an eager physics community whatever new ...
Rational Spelling (7)
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Here's a great, little video from Ed Rondthaler former president of the American Literacy Council and author of The Dictionary of Simplified American Spelling. Loyal readers will know that simplified spelling or what I call rational spelling holds a special place in my heart. I worry that the tyranny of spell checkers impedes evolution towards rational spelling. Hat tip to Boing Boing.
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Kiran Jonnalagadda said:
“I worry that the tyranny of spell checkers impedes evolution towards rational spelling.”
Markets in self-constraint, a continuing series (9)
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Peter Risager, a loyal MR reader, relays the following to me:A Danish chain of gyms is now offering membership free of charge, with the only caveat that you have to show up, in order for the membership to be free. If you fail to show up once per week you will be billed the normal monthly membership fee for that month. This should solve the problem with incentives that gym-membership normally carries - there is ...
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munir said:
Genius. Kind of like stickk.com but built into the service itself.
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pauloabx said:
uau! esta é nova!
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Kingsley said:
Negative pricing? very interesting
Activating the web: One programming language or many? (4)
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Google’s newly-announced browser, which bakes in a JavaScript-specific virtual machine, reminds me of an earlier era in which the Netscape browser baked in support for the Java VM. It makes perfect sense for Google under the circumstances, but also serves as a reminder that language-specific runtimes aren’t the only game in town. From that perspective, it’s worth recalling that Silverlight is based on the .NET Common Language Runtime, a multilingual engine that can accommodate languages ...
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 launches- new standards of usability and safety (2)
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Internet Explorer 8 beta launched today and its new features promise to take the browser to new standards of user friendliness and safety. I was part of a live online demo (Live meeting + phone) organised by Microsoft’s Bangalore based evangelism team and the demo did not disspaoint me. Check out key features & changes below: Visual Search suggestions: When you search from the default search box, it suggests different variants of the search keyword ...
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