January 2012
19 posts
“The economic downturn in 2008 adversely affected investors’ opinions about...”
– Tweet by MichaelKitces
“One thing that no all-in-one investment product does well is manage taxes....”
– Are Portfolio Management Apps Right for You? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
“bank and credit union executives say their organization’s lack of marketing...”
– Tweet by brettking
“As active managers, we believe that unexpected market events happen frequently,...”
– Managing Different Kinds of Risk
“The funds, which have become an integral part of many Americans’ 401(k)...”
– Target-Date Funds End Another Year Far Away From Bull’s-Eye - WSJ.com
“Index funds tend to beat actively managed funds over time given their low costs.”
– Fund Expenses More Important Than 5-Star Status - NYTimes.com
“If past performance is any indication of future returns, it’s not...”
– The Top 100 Mutual Funds - SmartMoney.com
“Schwab, like other 401(k) providers, found efforts to educate employees...”
– Secrets of the 401(k) Millionaires - SmartMoney.com
“the secret behind Google’s somewhat bland design was that if Google looked like...”
– is-too-much-plus-is-a-minus-for-google
“As it turns out, people are not very good at predicting what will make them...”
– The Science Behind the Smile - Harvard Business Review
“It’s the last goodbye I swear
I can’t survive
On a half hearted...”
– last goodbye, the kills
“Bank analyst Nancy Bush says with businesses and consumers still focused on...”
– Layoffs Hit Wall Street As Financial Needs Change
- WNYC
“readers crave authentic voice in the digital era”
– What a Blockbuster Forbes Post Says About the Tyranny and Future of the Page View - Forbes
“according to Vanguard, over the past decade more than sixty per cent of actively...”
– Human Nature and a Volatile Stock Market : The New Yorker
“Navigating such unpredictability requires investors to rely less on historical...”
– Mohamed El-Erian: Investing in a ‘Fat Tail’ World - WSJ.com
“The amount of dollars available for gaming in the region is finite, however, and...”
– It s State Against State as Northeast Scrambles for Gambling Bonanza - The Bond Buyer Article
“The stampede of investors away from actively managed mutual funds and toward...”
– When Indexing Isn’t Ideal
“America’s elders our most credible experts on one thing. Even though you...”
– New Book Illustrates Life Lessons From an Older Generation | PBS NewsHour | Jan. 5, 2012 | PBS
“Which raises the question: is it that social media in really ineffective for...”
– Is Social Media An Effective Tool To Grow A Planning
Practice? - Nerd’s Eye View (via Findings.com)
December 2011
2 posts
“In cities around the nation, similar ideas have emerged: streetlight user fees,...”
– Cities’ Cost Cuttings Leave Residents in the Dark - NYTimes.com
“A higher percentage of independent advisors use social media than other types of...”
– Social Media Losing Some Appeal With Financial Advisors
November 2011
5 posts
“I, for one, would like priority boarding for free, special food for free, with...”
– Traveling With Kids? Readers Prefer You Didn’t by https://findings.comMichelle Higgins (via Findings.com)
With Flixster, Studios Bet Consumers Will Buy... →
Retailers like Wal-Mart are working on UltraViolet access sites, but the only way to use the cloud-based service for now is via Flixster. Once consumers buy an UltraViolet-enabled DVD or Blu-ray set … they can set up an account on Flixster and type in a code provided on the disc packaging to claim their digital rights.
That may seem complicated for consumers in the age of Netflix and...
The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky «... →
they’re Spiky – there are no technical or economic constraints keeping the spotlight in one place anymore, so attention can move on as quickly as it arrived. This is the major shift that we are missing when we are nostalgic for the 20th century. We’re only just beginning to learn what culture looks like in spiky networks, and only just beginning to invent the companies and institutions that can...
“A fascinating study in The Review of Financial Studies showed that financial...”
– Financial Advisors Show Poor Market Timing - CBS
News (via Findings.com)
“You’d like to think that since these institutions are getting the best students,...”
– Why Science Majors Change Their Minds
(It’s Just So Darn Hard) (via Findings.com)
September 2011
2 posts
“One of the big errors of our time is believing that what happens online is...”
– Anonymous Comes Out In The Open : NPR
“Operating a bit like a stealth business news network, The Wall Street Journal on...”
– NYT
June 2011
1 post
“Not understanding your own psychology is the downfall of many an investor. The...”
– On Investing: The many hats of great investors - The Washington Post
May 2011
2 posts
“They “were the equivalent of scrubbed, West Point recruits,” he said in...”
– Special Report: Sony stumbles: Did Stringer’s makeover fail? | Reuters
“During the market crash, there was a direct correlation between clients who did...”
– Tweets That Mean Business
February 2011
1 post
http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/04/10/ →
Without a common framework, Web designers have been free to merrily vomit up unique and incompatible interfaces as often as they please. It’s what makes the Web such a visually exciting place. It’s also what makes actually using the Web such a consistent exercise in frustration.
January 2011
5 posts
"Alone Together": An MIT Professor's New Book... →
if you don’t learn how to be alone, you’ll always be lonely, that loneliness is failed solitude. We’re raising a generation that has grown up with constant connection, and only knows how to be lonely when not connected. This capacity for generative solitude is very important for the creative process, but if you grow up thinking it’s your right and due to be tweeted and retweeted, to have thumbs...
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde | Culture |... →
The “system” is the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). The F.B.I.-administered database now has well over eight million DNA offender profiles. Local, state, and federal law-enforcement officials routinely enter DNA samples recovered from convicts and from the scenes and victims of unsolved crimes, and over the years the system has electronically matched more than 100,000 of them, often reaching...
In Defense of The Memory Theater | Open Letters... →
As I look over my own shelf, I see my life pass before my eyes. The memories grafted onto each volume become stirred and awakened by a glance at the spine, which presents itself to be touched, opened, and explored. Without the bookshelf’s landscape to turn to, that manifest remainder from a lifetime of reading, how would one think?
Streamonomics →
Much is made of Apple’s controlled platform versus Google’s Android openomics. But In actuality Google’s model requires them to keep HTML 5 and H264 open across both platforms in order to preserve the ubiquity of search data and YouTube. Google preserving Flash on its platform buys them allegiance to a desktop model that is being replaced at the very moment as we’re switching to the streaming...
Andrew Womack, Co-Founder of the Morning News,... →
The future of online publishing is currently on hold, interminably delayed by iPad apps. In fact, this should be a very exciting time for anyone who’s not pouring their resources into making an iPad clone of their publication—the playing field is leveling out. The Gourmet Live team got it right, but their goal wasn’t to create a version of a magazine to sell through the iPad—it was to create a...
December 2010
1 post
Peter Vesterbacka, Maker of Angry Birds Talks... →
Angry Birds is a true mobile wonder with over 50 million downloads, 80% of users keeping the app installed, and as Peter Verterbacka, the “Mighty Eagle” of Rovio, makers of Angry Birds puts it, that number is without the holiday stats, which broke a record of a million downloads a day.
Another mind boggling statistic about Angry Birds, and you should sit down for this one, is that there are 200...
November 2010
4 posts
When Campaigns Manipulate Social Media - Jared... →
Truthy, a research project devoted to tracking the spread of memes online. Named after Stephen Colbert’s from-the-gut “truthiness,” the Truthy team uses an algorithm based on election-specific keywords and mood indicators — a type of sentiment analysis very similar to the one used at the University of Indiana to predict changes in the stock market — to follow political misinformation campaigns...
Foursquare's New Partnership With PepsiCo Takes...
Exclusive: Foursquare's New Partnership With PepsiCo Takes Focus Off of Places | Fast Company
http: //www.fastcompany.com/1703807/exclusive-foursquare-partners-with-pepsi-unveils-linked-loyalty-rewards-accounts-facebook-pl?partner=rss
Foursquare has also designed a unique vehicle for check-in rewards that is far less linear and ephemeral than traditional location-based reward programs. Rather than, say, earning a free coffee for becoming “mayor” of Starbucks (or just giving away 10,000 pairs of free jeans like Facebook and Gap’s one-off promo), Foursquare and PepsiCo have tailored rewards to user behavior, irrespective of in-store check-ins. Now, when participating customers earn Foursquare’s “Gym Rat” badge, they might be offered a SoBe Lifewater; or, if you often check in bright and early, Foursquare will recognize you’re a morning person, and may offer Tropicana orange juice or Quaker Oats—all specials on PepsiCo products, redeemable at Safeway stores.
rob zand | robzand.com | twitter: robzand | phone: 708-robzand
Briton Paul Chambers Loses Twitter Case, but Wins... →
“The authorities don’t seem to understand the way Twitter works,” said Padraig Reidy, news editor of Index on Censorship, a London magazine that covers free-speech issues. “There’s no provision in the law for people being hyperbolic, sarcastic or ironic. For a country that prides itself on its sense of irony, that is unfortunate.”
“economic power in the 21st century is not going to look like economic power in...”
– The Crossroads Nation - NYTimes.com
October 2010
4 posts
Type Fonts for Campaign Signs Go Conservative... →
But this year, Democratic and Republican candidates alike have largely forsaken modish fonts like Gotham, choosing instead fonts that look like they were banged out on a vintage typewriter or carved into an ancient temple.
“They believe that presenting information in a way that is hard to digest means a...”
– BBC News - Making things hard to read ‘can boost learning’
Article: Why Online2Offline Commerce Is A Trillion...
Why Online2Offline Commerce Is A Trillion Dollar Opportunity http://tcrn.ch/c4Vf6o this idea is significant, despite the silly o2o nomenclature and corporate babble accompanying it in the piece: think about how the discovery, payment, and performance measurement of offline commerce can move online (via Instapaper) rob zand | robzand.com | twitter: robzand | phone: 708-robzand
Article: Too Many Magazine Apps Are Still Walled...
Too Many Magazine Apps Are Still Walled Gardens http://gigaom.com/2010/10/09/too-many-magazine-apps-are-still-walled-gardens/ the app economy marks — for now at least — a return to the good old days when the walled-garden approach to publishing was the norm, and the Internet was just some pesky chat room for nerds. Wired’s app provides a slick interface to the magazine, but no way of actually...
September 2010
2 posts
“most, if not all, of the growth in employment comes from the 300,000 high-impact...”
– Ruth Marcus - The little engine that can’t - The myth about
small businesses and jobs
“We have yet to take Google’s measure. We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Google’s Earth - NYTimes.com
August 2010
2 posts
“When we’re holding a GPS-enabled device, our identity isn’t a question of “who,...”
– Steven Levy on How Foursquare Melds Real and Digital Worlds
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/pr_levy_foursquare/