Once again, the FT knows where the real stories lie. The market crash is a buying opportunity not just for equities, but for all sorts of investments, including those concerned with your palate. (High rollers avoid white truffle auction). The tasty bit: But in a trend also seen in recent art auctions, the investment bankers, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fun'
Usability is cool … so says Sir Mick
September 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · Fun, Usability
From the BBC: Jagger aims to satisfy e-shoppers Usability is now in fashion … Uh huh! Yeowh!
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Bored with someone? Charge more!
September 9th, 2008 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Fun
There seems to be lots of discussion on the internet today about the future of money. The best idea is this one from masters students in the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art. It’s called the “Personal Relationship Assistant,” which, among other things, would allow you to increase the price of your [...]
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Causality update … Charting a CEO’s health against a stock prices … from Wikinvest
August 8th, 2008 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Fun, Information Design
Wikinvest has included a nice new feature on the website: editable stock charts. Users can map comments to time periods, which can then be displayed on a stock price chart. This seems hugely open to abuse, but I have to say it’s easy to use, and kinda neat. For example, it was pretty easy for [...]
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In case you didn’t know it, we’re in a bunge
July 27th, 2008 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Fun
From John Authers, Investment Editor at the FT, we learn that fellow FT columnist John Kay has found a word for what the inverse of a bubble is. It is a bunge. Don’t take a bath in the bunge! ~alex
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Oil’s impact on healthcare; CFTC and prediction markets; walk it off
July 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Fun, Healthcare Markets, Lazy Blogger Blog Post, Prediction Markets
First, a great post from Health Populi on how the cost of oil affects health care. Next, John Delaney, of Intrade, on why prediction markets should be legal, and regulated by the CFTC. And why they’re so darn useful. This is a good read. Finally, how walkable is your neighborhood. Mine is a 94. Why [...]
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Yahoo v. Carl Icahnt
July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Fun
I’ve tried to ignore much of the hub bub around Yahoo v. Icahn v. Microsoft v. Google. But this graphic from TechCruch caught my eye. I did suspect as much about Mr. Icahn, but it’s nice to see it shown in such a simple and stark way. (Of course, I’m blithely ignoring the fact that [...]
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User research starts with Google
July 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Fun, Usability
Anyone looking to do a usability analysis of their site should start with a simple search. There’s much to be discovered. There truly is. (Of course, you know this doesn’t relieve you of the obligation to do true user research and usability testing, but it may help you find the obvious problems.) In addition, if [...]
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