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Dark Pools Drain Liquidity … (from the WSJ)

May 12th, 2008 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Product Development

HT to Gong for this article from the WSJ. Boom in ‘Dark Pool’ Trading Networks Is Causing Headaches on Wall Street By SCOTT PATTERSON and AARON LUCCHETTI May 8, 2008 When Cheryl Cargie, head trader at Ariel Investments LLC in Chicago, decided last month to buy 1.3 million shares of a midcap stock listed on [...]

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Amazon Enters a New Market

March 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · Lazy Blogger Blog Post, Wine Markets

From the FT we learn: Amazon to enter US wine market At this point, one has to ask, what won’t Amazon sell? Best quote of the story is here: Chris Adams, an executive at Sherry-Lehmann, a leading New York wine retailer, welcomed Amazon’s interest, saying it lent support to the view that states would ease [...]

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Interview: Gong Szeto of OptionsHouse

February 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Financial Markets, Information Design, Interviews

Mention Gong’s name in New York and most people know him as a premier designer, one of the guiding lights of Rare Medium (back in the day). Mention his name in Chicago and most people associate him with OptionsHouse, an up and coming retail options brokerage where he is the Director of Product Design. Gong, [...]

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Usable Country Day

January 21st, 2008 · Comments Off · Other Markets

For those who haven’t read (or listened to) Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech, it is remarkable, and certainly worth reading not only for the quality of its content, but its metaphorical power. Martin Luther King Jr. made civil rights accessible in a way few have (or can) by communicating clearly the past, [...]

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Wine Is Local

August 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Wine Markets

Wine is a difficult thing to buy online. This may seem like an absurd thing to say, what with the profusion of wine blogs and wine focused sites, but I know it to be true for me, and I fear that I am a typical wine buyer. What is not difficult to do online is [...]

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Interview with Victor Lombardi, Founder, Smart Experience

June 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Interviews, Other Markets

For those of you who don’t know Victor Lombardi, you should. He’s a familiar face in the User Experience world, and has been very successful evangelizing experience design and digital strategy as a means for companies to improve their products and processes. I interviewed him about his latest venture – a new school for the [...]

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Down on the Farmetrics

March 4th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Prediction Markets

I finally got around to checking out Farmetrics. Unlike Storage Markets I (thankfully) didn’t have to prove that I was part of the industry to get in on the fun. And, not to put too fine a point on it, I should disclose that despite the fact I grew up in upstate New York (USA), [...]

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Goldilocks Doesn’t Live Here Any More

December 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Other Markets, Usability

In recent months the stock market bulls have used a powerful metaphor — that precocious little girl of fairy tale, Goldilocks — to help make their case that the market will continue to rise. Metaphors are always useful in arguments, and in this case the bulls have used a potent one freighted with meaning. As [...]

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