Something isn’t quite right in paradise. Linden Lab has been making a whole series of cuts to staff and programs over the past 6-8 months that are to a large measure a reduction of service and costs associated with the Second Life platform. All the while they are claiming “we are on sound financial footing”. [...]
A question was asked on twitter that I find myself wanting to express an answer two albeit not in 140 characters. The question, or the comment really, was simply this “have fun defining the narrow difference between B2B and B2C social marketing” (@intellagirl, Aug 31, 2009). To me this question is relatively straight forward.
B2B Social [...]
So apparently the SEC is now taking the bull by the horns and reviewing cases “as they come in” about new ponzi schemes (see Time’s news article). What strikes me as being so weird about this is that, for all the ‘new direction’ and safety and security of the financial industry that the SEC is [...]
Gore is back in the news with his latest attempt at pushing forward a green agenda. That being for the US to try for 100% renewable energy within 10 years. Yes yes – all well and good. However in the process he has cited this call as being similar to JFK’s call to put a man [...]
Warren Buffett has provided an interesting proposal for the use of the Treasury moneys just recently passed by the US Congress and Senate. According to Buffett, allow people who do have funds available to invest to put up a 20% equity stake in the purchasing distressed assets with the Treasury providing the other 80%. In this [...]
CNN reports today about NASA’s mid-life crisis and the agency having lost its way. In truth I feel that the lack of vision is not characteristic of a failure on NASA’s part to develop strategic policy but rather a lack of vision on the part of America’s top administration to recognize the value such contribution [...]