The Formula for a Financial Crisis

WSJ.com has this nice piece titled "The Minds Behind the Meltdown - How a swashbuckling breed of mathematicians and computer scientists nearly destroyed Wall Street"

Its about a new breed of mathematicians and computer scientists took over much of the financial system—and the damage they inflicted in the 2007 meltdown. The traders and financial engineers who used their brain-twisting math and superpowered computers to pluck billions in fleeting dollars out of the market, instead of looking at individual companies and their performance, management and competitors, they used math formulas to make bets on which stocks were going up or down.

Read the complete article on WSJ.com here that discusses about the "Quants"

iPad Parody =)

watch this awesome iPad parody by MADtv

A Tale of a (Professor + Entrepreneurs) Vs. Computer Associates

Vivek Wadhwa writes an article on TechCrunch taking on ComputerAssociates, while encouraging entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley.

Calling All Entrepreneurs: California Needs You | TechCrunch

A regular contributor to TechCrunch and BusinessWeek, Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.

The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now

 NYTimes.com  has this really nice detailed article about how to ensure your privacy on Facebook, check it out and make sure your profile on Facebook is at the privacy level you desire!

If you can beat em, snatch it from em!

Check this TechCrunch piece about ImageShack trying to snatch the tradeMark "TwitPic" from TwitPic

The Nerve! ImageShack Tries To Trademark Twitpic | TechCrunch

Click these links ImageShack and TwitPic if you dont know about these companies.

What would you do if you had 40 pounds of Gold and a Porsche?

Here's one of the things you could do with so much gold and a kick ass car,

COVER THAT CAR WITH GOLD!

 








Read Offbeat Earth for more pics of this Gold Porsche 911 from Russia!

Bugatti Veyron operating costs so expensive, it's cheaper to use a private jet?

Ever dreamt of buying a Bugatti Veyron???

If yes, and if you are working very hard to realize that dream of yours, you better read this piece on Autoblog which gives much more details about maintaining a Veyron, and concludes that its way cheaper to own and maintain a Private Jet

Sweet Dreams ;)!

3D Porn? The studios are way ahead of you!

For years the central question when any new television technology comes out is whether explicit entertainment providers will adopt it. In the case of 3D TV, friends, there’s no question: 3D TV is here and its here to stay… but will it be popular?

Read this Q&A on CrunchGear to know more about where 3D (adult) entertainment is and where it is heading.

Think before you tweet

One moment, Paul Chambers tweets, threatening to blow up an airport because he is pissed and some time later, he is the hot boy being hunted by the anti-terror/law-enforcement agencies, because they sensed a terrorist plot in Paul's tweet!

Read this article for more details, and try not to make the same mistake Paul did (unless you feel secure with so many cops keeping an eye on you ;)

Sex Ed Fail

Checkout this nice post on the FailBlog

on a good day, I might have given a similar answer :P

Microwave Box Of Wine

Microwaving a Box of wine. Awesome!

Watch this Video


Enjoy!

I'd also like to add the classical warning:

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!

TwitPic - A typical "Garage to Million Dollar business"

How A Spare Computer Became Twitpic, A $1.5+ Million A Year Twitter Success Story – with Noah Everett | Mixergy - Online Business Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs

Watch the video if you can spare 75 mins, its interesting !

Unless you are reading this blog on my iPhone app, checkout the video of this interview:

Thomas Friedman's View of where America is Heading

 On NYTimes.com Thomas Friedman gets "envious of the leaders of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, who surely get to spend more of their time focusing on how to build their nations than the US president, whose agenda can be derailed at any moment by a jihadist death cult using exploding underpants."

Read the complete article: Op-Ed Columnist - What’s Our Sputnik? - NYTimes.com

Apple vs. Google

BusinessWeek has a great article about the "How the battle between Silicon Valley's superstars will shape the future of mobile computing"

Peter Burrows compares the past of these two giants and discusses the potential war between Apple and Google that may start getting more conspicuous by the day!

Read the complete 4 page article here  - BusinessWeek

Support Page for my iPhone app

Created using AppMakr!

PADS - Post Avatar Depression Syndrome?

I hate to admit that I am yet to watch this movie, but anyone going through these type of Depressions?



Wont be surprised if some highly depressed Avatar watcher sues James Cameron for a few million bucks!

Flash for iPhone

This Will Be The Year Adobe’s 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone

Check out this TechCrunch article about the new Adobe CS5 letting developers create actual iphone code for all the 'flash'y stuff they come up with!

Google Docs adds File sharing support

$5 a year for 20GB!!

Isn't that awesome??

This 20GB that you buy can be used among Picasa, Gmail and Docs.

The only limit is that the file size can be a maximum of 250 MB

Check this post on Google Blog

How Not to Play Wii with accessories!!!!!

Let me try to save you your nice big flat screen TV (If you have one!), watch this and learn =)

Hilarious WiFi network names!

Here is a list of 25 Hilarious WiFi Network Names

I must say they are creative (especially the Pong Lenis network :)!!

India issues advisory for students in Australia

I have heard of US, UK and most other developed countries issuing warnings/advisory to its citizens about unsafe conditions in developing countries (including India). This looks like a first!


CNN.com http://bit.ly/8SBz0c

Immigration - USA

Legalizing unauthorized immigrants would help economy, study says - CNN.com http://bit.ly/6gFkCR

Wish they just opened doors at their borders! I am sure the ones arguing for legalizing illegal immigrants will be extremely happy!

Was surprised to see no mention of legal hardworking, very high tax paying temporary visa holders becoming immigrants! IMHO USA stands to gain a lot by just granting Green Cards to all H1 holders, it'd boost entrepreneurship among the GC holders, along with creating tons of jobs!

48% of Fast Food Soda Fountains Contain Bacteria that Grew in Feces !!!

Read the article below, and enjoy your soda! The article sounds plausible because its on a website thats part of Discovery Channel group.

Source: TreeHugger http://bit.ly/4WEw8D

Cool Parkour Flip Page Animation!!!! Creative!!!


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Wi - Fi Chickens out because of a Chicken Wire?

Got Chicken Wire in the dry wall? If yes, then your Wi-Fi is limited to the room in which the router is located.

Checkout this article on the Wall Street Journal website:
Culprit in Wi-Fi Failures: Chicken Wire - WSJ.com http://bit.ly/78h6A8

Probably this can be a useful feature if hotels and cafes want to give exellent WiFi connectivity withing their premises without bothering about anyone else accessing it (unless they want to go through the usual way of logging in and stuff).

Image by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicken_Wire_close-up.jpg